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“It is always a joy to have such positive results from these competitions and certainly very encouraging for all of us in the Lisa Macuja School of Ballet.”
The company has launched its latest project, Ballet Minis: Passages On Pointe, a series of short dance films taking off from some of its most loved performance pieces – all reimagined for digital media.
Despite their training being conducted mostly via Zoom, four students of the Lisa Macuja School of Ballet showed talent and hard work can yield rewarding results with their victory in the recently concluded Asian Ballet Competition.
The company is one of seven arts and cultural organizations to get a grant to be used to create and produce new works in various art disciplines and distribute new content on the arts using online technology, or blended or hybrid technologies.
This year however, due to the pandemic, organizers had to adapt, coming up with Sayaw Pinoy Goes Virtual, a first for the festival.
Ballet Manila scholar Juan Angelo De Leon, 12, has been named as a participant in the London-based Royal Ballet School’s exclusive International Scholar Programme this year.
The four boys represented The Lisa Macuja School of Ballet, the educational arm of Ballet Manila.
The Lisa Macuja School of Ballet has started offering a full slate of classes that it used to hold in its two branches, in Donada, Pasay and in Fisher Mall, Quezon City, and even new courses.
Ballet Manila fuses opera and classical music with ballet in Carmina Burana & La Traviata (A Double Bill), the final offering in its 24th season dubbed On Pointe.
Zhongli Youth Ballet will again send students to Ballet Manila’s Summer Intensive in April and May,
Principal dancers Abigail Oliveiro, Joan Emery Sia and Elpidio Magat received Ballet Manila’s trophy on behalf of artistic directors Lisa Macuja-Elizalde and Osias Barroso, with Sia underscoring in her thank-you speech the company’s twin mission of bringing ballet to the people and people to the ballet.
He is being honored for his achievements in Arts and Humanities in the field of Dance.
Ballet Manila makes its debut in Malaysia this month, with two performances scheduled in the national capital, Kuala Lumpur.
The Ballet Manila group is led by co-artistic director Osias Barroso who first conducted a workshop for the school in 2018.
Dancing the Blue Bird Variation from The Sleeping Beauty, 11-year-old Juan Angelo De Leon – representing The Lisa Macuja School of Ballet Manila – soared to a bronze finish in the Pre-Competitive B Division of the Asian Grand Prix International Ballet Competition in Hong Kong.
Four students of The Lisa Macuja School of Ballet Manila are among the 200-plus candidates competing in the Asian Grand Prix International Ballet Competition which is being held from August 12 to 17 at the Y-Square in Hong Kong.
Ballet Manila offers a diverse fare in its 24th performance season opening in September, featuring beloved fairy tales, a haunting classic and new choreographic pieces exploring themes of spirituality and redemptive love.
The show aims to raise funds that will help the two groups sustain their respective ballet scholarship programs.
In his welcome remarks, Ambassador Haneda congratulated Ballet Manila on the success of its recently concluded 23rd season, saying how fortunate he was to have watched the final show, Deux, and to have seen the five Japanese dancers perform in it.
A total of fifty-seven contenders joined the 2019 AGP Regional Competition in Manila.
