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.
Let the blossoms of love beautify your heart. Let the spirit dance with joy.
Paskong Pista, Ballet Manila’s special Christmas presentation in 2009, focused on festivities in a barrio setting while highlighting a choreographic program that fused classical, contemporary and folk dance nuances.
Ballet Manila Dances was apparently the first classical ballet performance held in Zamboanga in more than 25 years.
Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.
“Christmas Mash-Up a la Ballet Manila” was the perfect description for the company’s twinbill presentation in December 2014.
“It is always a joy to have such positive results from these competitions and certainly very encouraging for all of us in the Lisa Macuja School of Ballet.”
Kutitap, which premiered in December 2011, is the story of an angel who comes down to earth to see what is happening among mankind.
“My promise to myself is that I will dance until my body can do it.”
Life’s a dance you learn as you go. Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow.
And though the future is unpredictable for him at the moment, Romeo fights to keep moving forward.
It was a recommendation letter the artistic director of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival was only too happy to write.
The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters.
With Osias Barroso’s Pinocchio choreography for BM already popular since the original premiered in 2002, the company decided to extend and upgrade the production.
Death scenes in ballet can be complicated, and the moments leading up to a heartbreaking end perhaps the most difficult to accomplish.
