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.
16. Learn to listen – to the music, to your body, to your teachers, to your partners and yes, to your critics.
Demi Pointe describes the position of the feet where the dancer has their full body weight on the balls of the feet at “half pointe”.
Budding ballerinas and danseurs will have their fill of dance classes as The Lisa Macuja School of Ballet Manila sets its Summer Intensive 2019, with its Full Program running from April 2 to May 19.
“I am a girl of doubt. I always restrain myself so easily.”
Eight Ballet Manila dancers are moving up the ranks including two to principal position.
Born in Japan, this charming talent reveals that since the beginning, she had always been obsessed with ballet.
A reverence typically looks like a bow (for males) and curtsy (for females).
In this clip, British choreographer Martin Lawrance is seen working with the dancers of Ballet Manila to to bring to life Come Together - one of the many sequences of his Beatles-inspired piece, The Winding Road..
All sorts of surprises have been thrown at Jessica Pearl Dames’ way ever since preparations for Deux, Ballet Manila’s season finale, started.
Choreographer Martin Lawrance returns to Manila with a new piece inspired by the music of The Beatles.
A tour en l’air is a jumping movement and it means to turn in the air.
In February 2005, Ballet Manila set a challenge for itself that was unheard of in Philippine dance history – to dance two completely different full-length ballets on two consecutive weekends as the finale of its tenth season.
In this YouTube age where one-minute clips of dancers spinning and executing complicated aerial acrobatics account for most people’s exposure to ballet, teaching the young ballerinas to slow down and focus on deliberate movements was a challenge.
First performed in 2015, this stunning piece highlights the strength and grace of the company’s male dancers.
A budding choreographer named Michael Fokine – then only 26 – created a ballet that broke away from the classical ballet tradition championed by Marius Petipa.
This talent from Japan moves so effortlessly and fearlessly that one would think that she's been dancing professionally for years. In truth, however, this ballerina is still going through many firsts.
If the journey of the Vaganova ballet method were to be charted from its beginnings in Russia, it would show an unlikely destination in the Philippines that then branches out to other points in the Asia-Pacific region.
