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
You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.
The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice.
Even when you are alone, music and dance unify the soul and the body. It's incredible!
You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.
Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the spirit of nature and the spirit of the universe
She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.
I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
Dancing is like painting. You dance on the canvas of your body.
Dancing’s just a conversation between two people. Talk to me.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
