The Ballet Manila Archives is the repository of documents, print, photographic, audio and video materials and memorabilia relating to the history of Ballet Manila and the life and career of its founder, prima ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde. This site is powered by Ms. Elizalde and Project Art, Inc.
As the company prepares to bring it back for a fourth time, we put the spotlight on the souvenir program covers of its previous productions.
“There was that breath in dancing, a quality that’s hardly seen in the younger generation. “
After 16 years, Ballet Manila is bringing back the spectacle in August and here are three good reasons to catch it.
“I wanted something more – something that I had always wanted to do, which was to move to Manila and dance with Ballet Manila,” she shares.
Dance helps us dream bigger dreams and understand our connectedness. When we close our eyes and dream, we are all brothers.
“Doon ko nare-realize na kailangan kong tumayo ulit at lumaban.”
“I was never really supposed to be in ballet,” says Ballet Manila apprentice Maxeene Castillo.
On June 11, 1998, the eve of the Philippine Centennial, Ballet Manila joined eight other companies in a show to cap an unprecendented six-week, 100-performance series.
The Ballet Manila Archives shares the article in full in memory of Mrs. Radaic, an institution in Philippine dance and a teacher to generations of ballet artists, who passed away on June 2, 2026.
In celebration of Father’s Day, we focus the spotlight on three dads of differing temperaments who have graced the Ballet Manila stage.
What Shamira is trying to stitch together is the duality to Paquita – a person who enjoys dancing with Iñigo’s traveling group but at the same time feels she doesn’t quite belong.
After his full-length debut as Prince Désiré in the return of Lisa Macuja Elizalde’s Sleeping Beauty last March, soloist Jos David Andes has been preparing for his next major role: Lucien in Paquita.
Keisha’s decision to move from Jakarta to Manila had been an easy one.
We caught up with the artistic director at the press launch of Paquita and asked her to flesh out the elements that make this ballet a must-watch.
We look back on three such gems – choreographies that are as iconic to Tito Tony as they are to Ballet Manila.
