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In thirty minutes, this favorite children’s story was told in dance by Ballet Manila in a packed Star City last June 5.
The 40-minute show, like its three forerunners, was streamed live from Ballet Manila’s Studio 1 in its Pasay headquarters and aired on the company’s social media platforms on Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok.
Ballet Manila will perform at the Activity Center of the refurbished Star City starting February 26, Saturday, and February 27, Sunday.
After the success of its first Dance Day Live! last January 30, Ballet Manila is gearing up for the second show of its planned monthly series.
Dubbed as Ballet Manila Dance Day Live!, the 30-minute show – which is being eyed as a monthly event – will be streamed from the company’s studio on January 30, Sunday, at 5 p.m. through its social media channels.
Following up on their victory at the Asian Grand Prix (AGP) Manila Regionals, eleven Ballet Manila junior company dancers and a teen scholar bagged medals in the international ballet event’s Finals held through a video competition.
“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.
