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 one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
"Pang-bravura ang dancing style ko talaga or mga roles na attack, attack, attack! Hindi ganyan ang Sleeping Beauty.”
The war between the Montagues and the Capulets is the central conflict in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
“It’s very simple and if you open your heart a little, you can feel it and appreciate the beauty and simplicity.”
It is this balance of innocence with a mastery of technique that makes Juliet such a beautiful and difficult role for a ballerina.
For the double bill that was Carmina Burana & La Traviata – new choreographies based on familiar music and material – the premiere would be at the Samsung Hall of SM Aura, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City
Since its beginnings in 1995, Ballet Manila has collaborated with artists who have explored facets of love through their choreography.
For Ballet Manila, co-artistic director Osias “Shaz” Barroso remains the gold standard for the role of Romeo.
The fight for freedom is the thread tying two inspirations that would give rise to Rebel, Ballet Manila’s epic production that had its world premiere in 2016.
Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.
In 2012, a trio of such choreographies premiered as part of the production dubbed Lab Ko ‘To.
Barely two months after forming themselves into a new dance group, Ballet Manila – composed of twelve dancers under the leadership of artistic director of Eric V. Cruz – made its debut on February 17, 1995.
Arguably the most romantic tale ever told, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been translated to hundreds of languages and interpreted in all art forms – from visual arts to the opera. Ballet is no exception.
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.
The four boys represented The Lisa Macuja School of Ballet, the educational arm of Ballet Manila.
Ballet Manila brought one of its treasured classics to Pampanga in January 2010.
