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.
The Filipino film Muro-Ami made a big impression on Gerardo Francisco when he saw it on the big screen in 1999.
Ballet Manila brings back one of the world’s most enduring classical tales, the four-act Swan Lake, as the second offering in its 22nd performance season dubbed Flights of Fantasy.
When Ballet Manila first performed the classical warhorse that is Swan Lake, it had to “import” a Russian company to make a full cast.
Ballet Manila is headed to Vietnam to participate in the Vietnam International Dance Festival to be held from September 15 to 23 in Ninh Binh Province.
For Marinette Franco, High Strung accurately captures the challenges of being a ballet dancer – how hard it is to get in, to maintain what one has and to do everything just to be able to do what one loves.
Living up to its foundation as a touring company, Ballet Manila managed to hold two performance tours to Mindanao in its first year.
After the last applause, final cheer, and ultimate curtain call, Ballet Manila brings to a close its first offering for the 22nd performance season, Gerardo Francisco's Ibong Adarna.
No matter how many times she’s done it, stepping on stage still brings jitters to Gia Macuja-Atchison.
Just two years old, Ballet Manila decided to field seven soloists to the 6th Asian Pacific International Ballet Competition held from August 13 to 17, 1997 in Tokyo, Japan.
We rediscover this beloved Filipino classic tale in this excerpt featuring that memorable scene with principal dancer Rudy De Dios as Don Juan attempting to capture soloist Abigail Oliveiro as Ibong Adarna
More known by his nickname “Elmoe,” this ever-smiling Ballet Manila soloist performs so effortlessly that one would think that he’s been dancing ballet all his life. But the truth is the subject only entered ballet when he was 18.
Top advertising photographer G-nie Arambulo celebrates her 25th anniversary as a force behind the lens via the exhibit Alchemy en Pointe: A Dance of the Elements, which opens at 2 p.m. on August 26, Saturday, at the foyer of Aliw Theater, CCP Complex, Pasay City.
Diwa de Leon only has vague memories of the Ibong Adarna, recalling the storybooks he had read about this mythical bird when he was a child.
This step in classical ballet means to Develop in Second Position on a Rise.
Sari’t Bahag is not quite a winged ballet, but it seems apt to include it in this series as one of its pivotal characters is a bird.
How does a child who's interested in basketball and drums end up in professional ballet? Ballet Manila soloist Rudolph Capongcol says that it first had to do with peer pressure.
Brian Ramos Sevilla won the silver medal in the Junior B category of the 2017 Asian Grand Prix held in Hong Kong.
