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.
All in Talk About Dance
Let us read; and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
While I dance, I can not judge, I can not hate, I can not separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. This is why I dance.
Dancing faces you towards heaven, whichever direction you turn.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.
Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
The moon rose above the canopy and a dreamy mist swirled around our knees as we danced, fingers entwined and hearts in sync with the universe; just a prince and his princess, a boy and a girl, learning to love in a beautiful world.
Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I’ll be very glad to be a song and dance man.
In a society that worships love, freedom, and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.
Hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon.
Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
So the darkness shall be light, and the stillness the dancing.
Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.
Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.
Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
