Last year, when Peter Boal, the artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, announced his new production of The Sleeping Beauty, he said, “Our Beauty begins with a reexamining of original source materials. Notions of good versus evil, destiny and empowerment, and innovative interpretations of character and craft define this production.” Boal will be exploring those source materials with the musicologist and dance historian Doug Fullerton. Meanwhile, the Northwest glass artist Preston Singletary is creating sets that suggest an ancestral realm anchored in North America. The Sleeping Beauty, Singletary has said, “reminds me of Tlingit storytelling where symbolism and stagecraft come together to teach values to society.” Additionally, the innovative puppet master Basil Twist will be providing an element of puppetry. A new production of The Sleeping Beauty is always an event, and given that P.C.B. has proved adept at historically persuasive re-thinks of the classics, this one should be special. —Laura Jacobs