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.
“Kailangan mahalin mo kung ano ang ginagawa mo. At saka huwag kang matakot na subukan ulit kung ano ‘yung nasimulan mo.”
Taking a cue from a local pop song, Ballet Manila whipped up a production that celebrated the remarkable quality of Filipino music to open its 19th performance season in 2014. Just like the well-known tune, the company just had to proclaim it in its title – Kay Ganda ng Ating Musika.
The prima ballerina, together with husband, Manila Broadcasting Company chairman Fred J. Elizalde, earlier cut the ribbon formally opening what she described as a “harder-working complex with three distinct facilities that can hold different types of events.”
Steve Owen of the ISM’s High School Social Studies Department sent artistic director Lisa Macuja-Elizalde – herself an ISM parent – a letter thanking her and the company not just for a show that he enjoyed but also “for your generosity in sharing your talents for the good of our school.”
“Hindi permanent ang mga bagay na yan. Dadaan lang tayo diyan.”
One and a half years after winning the silver at the Asian Grand Prix International Ballet Competition, ballet scholar Juan Angelo “Gelo” De Leon is in London to join The Royal Ballet School’s two-week summer intensive program which was part of his prize in 2020.
For the final installment of Ballet Manila Moments’ celebration of Linggo ng Musikang Pilipino, we are featuring a rare OPM and ballet collaboration.
In this clip is Pinoy Ako, the second installment of Ballet Manila Moments’ celebration of Linggo ng Musikang Pilipino.
In this clip is a choreography by Jonathan Janolo set to a medley of music by the legendary Rey Valera: Pangako sa ‘Yo, Tayong Dalawa, and Kung Tayo’y Magkakalayo.
You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.
Recently promoted as Assistant of the Directress, this educator observes that as more months were spent learning from home, she and the other teachers were able to master the online platform more and more.
Like its previous page-to-stage project Tatlong Kuwento ni Lola Basyang which premiered in 2008, Ballet Manila made sure that Alamat: Si Sibol at Si Gunaw would be a spectacle to please audiences.
Ballet Manila was the only company in the Philippines to have been able to bring Le Corsaire in its full-length form to the Filipino audience.
In 2018, this ballerina thought that she had already seen the last of her days in pointe shoes as motherhood brought about many changes to her body.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
