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.
Gabriela ng Vigan is a free interpretation in a dance-drama of Gabriela Silang’s struggles.
The choreography explores a different side of arnis by taking its movements and combining these with dance.
Mosquerade is a stylized interpretation of the colorful and exotic traditional wedding dance from the Muslim land of Mindanao.
Kung Hindi Man – which plays on the word kundiman – premiered in 1995, Ballet Manila’s first year when they began as a touring company.
In the mountain province of Luzon, the Old Priestess helps the Head Warrior find a bride and eventually chooses the Maiden.
Literature has proven to be an important source of material for choreographers in creating ballets that can stand the test of time. Of these, Don Quixote is arguably the best example.
Unwaveringly optimistic, ballerina Jessica Pearl Dames wasn’t weighed down by anxieties when the enhanced community quarantine was first imposed in March 2020.
While beautiful to behold, flowers are rarely mere decorations in ballet productions.
Dancing alone is often easier and certainly less complicated than dancing with someone else, but there is nothing quite so satisfying as creating even one moment of real beauty moving gracefully with another.
Ballet Manila toasts motherhood in all its forms in this virtual exhibition to mark Mother’s Day.
Carmen, the tale of tragedy and passion interpreted in dance by Ballet Manila artistic director Eric V. Cruz, went centerstage at the appropriately intimate Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater) in May 1, 1996.
The life lessons that we hold most dear have come from dance. Dance is storytelling and language; it is a means of expressing emotions both powerful and beautiful.
Gathering photographs from the Ballet Manila Archives, we present the vibrant and the somber, the heavenly to the earthy, in a series of virtual exhibitions – one shade at a time.
This year however, due to the pandemic, organizers had to adapt, coming up with Sayaw Pinoy Goes Virtual, a first for the festival.
Everything starts with movement – an instinct we all have – and dance is movement refined to communicate.
It takes years of preparation, hard work, and diligence to become a dancer, but it also takes a spirit of fun mixed with adventure.
Anyone who follows Ballet Manila soloist Joshua Enciso in social media knows that his artistic pursuits go beyond ballet.
Ballet Manila scholar Juan Angelo De Leon, 12, has been named as a participant in the London-based Royal Ballet School’s exclusive International Scholar Programme this year.
