Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty in Porto

Ballet of Lights is a show Fever produces itself and tours to more than 100 cities, its own site says. The Porto version is Sleeping Beauty: the princess, the long sleep and the kiss that wakes her, told in classical dance with no interval. Fever’s listing says six local dancers perform it, and names the Centro de Dança do Porto as the company for every month but December, so that is who dances the 2027 dates.

The idea is in the costumes. Tutus, bodices and wide pleated wings are wired with lights, and the stage is kept dark so that the dancers carry the glow with them. Fever says the costumes respond to each movement and describes the light as part of the choreography; its photos show a ballerina in a lit pink tutu in front of projected Gothic windows. The soundtrack, the listing says, includes works by the great classical composers. You do not need to know ballet to follow it: the story is one most children already know.

The evening is short and runs to a strict clock. Doors open 30 minutes before the start, the show lasts about 60 minutes, and Fever says nobody is let in once it has begun. Seats are not numbered. You buy a zone, A, B, C or D, and take a seat within it in order of arrival. Ballet of Lights' own site adds that phones stay on silent and photos are allowed only during the final piece, without flash.

The room is the Auditório Francisco de Assis, the auditorium of the Colégio Luso-Francês at Rua do Amial 478, about 4 kilometres north of Avenida dos Aliados. Fever’s photo of it shows a modern hall with raked rows of seats between timber-lined walls. On 11 November 2026 Fever had four performances on sale: Sunday 17 January 2027 and Saturday 27 February 2027, at 16:00 and 18:00 each day. Nothing is on sale before 17 January, so this is one for a winter trip already in the diary.

It is the only dance show among our Porto pages, and the one with the most to look at for a child of 8 or over: a story they know, an hour long, at 16:00 or 18:00, so nobody is out late. It held 4.4 (4.36) from 519 reviews on Fever on 11 November 2026, and the cheapest zone costs 17.85 euros with the fee, about the price of our lowest Candlelight ticket in Porto. Fever sells every ticket itself; there is no box office at the hall and no cheaper direct price to find.

Which ticket: all four zones were on sale for all four performances on 11 November 2026. Zone D is 17.85 euros, Zone C 26.25, Zone B 34.65 and Zone A 39.38, each with Fever’s fee. The listing carries a seating plan, so look at it before you pay; Fever calls the hall an intimate space where the stage feels close. Wheelchair places are in Zone C. If you are four or more, buy in one order and arrive together, because seats within a zone go in order of arrival.

If your dates fall before 17 January 2027, or you want live musicians, book our Candlelight concerts page: a string quartet at the Palácio da Bolsa in Ribeira, with dates through the winter. For something shorter with younger children, Spiritus in the Clérigos Church runs every evening in the Baixa.

The hall is in a residential part of north Porto, not the old centre. From The One Monumental Palace and Casa da Companhia it is a 7-minute taxi ride without traffic, and no more than 11 minutes from any of our seven hotels in Porto and Gaia.