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
Dancing alone is often easier and certainly less complicated than dancing with someone else, but there is nothing quite so satisfying as creating even one moment of real beauty moving gracefully with another.
The life lessons that we hold most dear have come from dance. Dance is storytelling and language; it is a means of expressing emotions both powerful and beautiful.
It takes years of preparation, hard work, and diligence to become a dancer, but it also takes a spirit of fun mixed with adventure.
A loving and careful mother both recognizes and even protects her daughter’s autonomy and also helps her dance out confidently on to a wider stage.
Put on your favorite upbeat worship music and dance your heart out for ten minutes. Remind yourself that Jesus has come so that you can live life to the fullest and that He has joy for you today.
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.
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.
Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.
If people stand in a circle long enough, they’ll eventually begin to dance.
Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let’s dance.
This is why the idea of finding love across the dance floor endures - symbolizing that, when we know the true rhythm of our heart, we know the other.
Come Faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.
