“Sleeping Beauty” tells the story of a princess who gets cursed into an enchanted sleep and does not wake up until a prince comes across her 100 years later.

The story is filled with good fairies and bad, kings and queens a beautiful princess and a handsome prince and in two weeks, they will all take the stage in Redmond.

Issaquah-based MK Ballet will perform “Sleeping Beauty” at 7 p.m. on May 3 and 4 at the Redmond Performing Arts Center, located at 17272 N.E. 104th St. Tickets for the ballet are $30 for adults and $20 for students and seniors. Special pricing for families of four is also available for $100 with each additional member costing $20.

The performance will feature all of MK Ballet’s 30 or so students, who range from 4 to adult.

MK Ballet art director Michiko Black said she always includes everyone in the studio’s performances, even the younger students. She added that one of her “very, very (hard-working)” students — at age 7 — will play a very important role in the ballet.

There will also be a support cast of volunteers from the local dance community. Jerome Tisserand and William Lin-Yee of the Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) will also join the “Sleeping Beauty” cast as the prince and dancing bluebird, respectively.

Performing opposite Tisserand will be Black’s 18-year-old daughter Sabrina Schulbach as Princess Aurora. Schulbach has been dancing since she was 3 years old and “Sleeping Beauty” will be her third lead role in an MK Ballet production.

“I really like to perform,” she said.

Schulbach said one of the things she likes about “Sleeping Beauty” is that it is a classical ballet and a very challenging one as well.

“I really like the story of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and I really like the choreography that we have,” said Bailey Moore about her favorite thing about the upcoming production.

This will be the 18-year-old’s second time performing in an MK Ballet production and she will be playing the lilac fairy and another bluebird.

Black said MK Ballet doesn’t do recitals like most studios do. Instead, they do one big production every year and a half or so and the students rehearse for at least a year before performing. She said in addition to learning the choreography, the students study acting so they are able to convey emotions throughout their performance.

“These things take lots of time,” said Black, who grew up studying traditional Japanese dance, piano, singing and acting in addition to ballet and is a former Japanese National Ballet champion.

Black was born and raised in Tokyo. She began dancing at the age of 3 and began teaching about 21 years ago; she opened her own ballet studio in Tokyo about 19 years ago. She moved to Bremerton, Wash. about 17 years ago and opened MK Ballet there before moving to the Eastside about six years ago and opening her Issaquah studio a year later.

Black shrugs at her accomplishments as if they are nothing, but her husband Robert Black thinks differently.

“She’s very modest,” he said.

Michiko has taken the hard work and discipline she learned as a performer and instilled it in her students.

Moore, who had danced at another studio before coming to MK Ballet, said Michiko’s instructing style is very different.

“It’s a lot more strict here,” she said, adding that Michiko pushes her dancers very hard but as a result, they see improvement more quickly.

In addition to instructing her students in dance, Michiko also makes the costumes they wear for a performance and “Sleeping Beauty” is no exception.

“Michiko works very hard,” Robert said.