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.
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As National Children’s Book Day is celebrated today, July 20, we look back to that Filipino ballet classic’s beginnings in 2008.
Prima ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde attributes her 30-year career in classical dance to the Vaganova technique which she learned in Russia.
He may be “Dad” to prima ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde, but for the extended family that is Ballet Manila, Cesar Macuja is also looked up to as a second father.
Gabriela ng Vigan is a free interpretation in a dance-drama of Gabriela Silang’s struggles.
The choreography explores a different side of arnis by taking its movements and combining these with dance.
Mosquerade is a stylized interpretation of the colorful and exotic traditional wedding dance from the Muslim land of Mindanao.
Kung Hindi Man – which plays on the word kundiman – premiered in 1995, Ballet Manila’s first year when they began as a touring company.
In the mountain province of Luzon, the Old Priestess helps the Head Warrior find a bride and eventually chooses the Maiden.
While beautiful to behold, flowers are rarely mere decorations in ballet productions.
Ballet Manila toasts motherhood in all its forms in this virtual exhibition to mark Mother’s Day.
Gathering photographs from the Ballet Manila Archives, we present the vibrant and the somber, the heavenly to the earthy, in a series of virtual exhibitions – one shade at a time.
Everything starts with movement – an instinct we all have – and dance is movement refined to communicate.
In 2020, Ballet Manila was set to bring Ibong Adarna on a national tour in a co-production between Project Art and the Manila Broadcasting Company.
"Pang-bravura ang dancing style ko talaga or mga roles na attack, attack, attack! Hindi ganyan ang Sleeping Beauty.”
“It’s very simple and if you open your heart a little, you can feel it and appreciate the beauty and simplicity.”
