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 have dancing shoes,
With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
The moment is everything. Don't think about tomorrow; don't think about yesterday: think about exactly what you're doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.
Ballet is a universe of the imagination, a place of magic and enchantment, beauty and romance.
Dance is life. Stillness is love. Together, they are everything.
The ultimate goal in life is to dance to the songs you used to cry on.
You can use your body as a way of expression, to protest and to heal.
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and its music. Bodies never lie.
I wasn’t just going to walk, I was going to run. And then, once I stopped running, I was going to 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.
