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You live as long as you dance.

Mar 28

Mar 28 Olé! Don Quixote fun facts: #3 – From Quiteria to Kitri

The feisty and spirited Kitri – a prized role for ballerinas the world over – is known in the novel as Quiteria.

Mar 24

Mar 24 After a long pandemic break, soloist Anselmo Dictado just wants to keep on dancing

Interviews

Ballet Manila soloist Anselmo Dictado is one of those who can’t imagine himself doing anything aside from dancing; but since the COVID-19 pandemic happened, he was forced to take on other paths.

Mar 22

Mar 22 Soloist: Rissa May Camaclang

About The Company

Discover the many roles of Rissa May Camaclang, soloist of Ballet Manila.

Mar 20

Mar 20 Talk about dance: Isadora Duncan

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

Mar 17

Mar 17 This Month in BM History: March 2019

This Month In BM History

From ballet blanc (white ballet) to The Beatles – this was the powerhouse combination of Ballet Manila’s 23rd season-ender in March 2019 entitled Deux.

Mar 15

Mar 15 Olé! Don Quixote fun facts: #2 - Don Quixote doesn’t dance

In the ballet’s story, he travels with his trusty squire, Sancho Panza, and along the way meets the innkeeper Lorenzo’s daughter, Kitri, whom he mistakes for his ideal woman, Dulcinea.

Mar 13

Mar 13 Ballet Manila Moments: Mercedes, the fiery scene-stealer

Ballet Manila Moments

In this clip is principal dancer Abigail Oliveiro as the feisty Mercedes in Ballet Manila’s 2017 production of Don Quixote.

Mar 10

Mar 10 Ole! Don Quixote fun facts: #1 - Quick study

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde and Osias Barroso first performed as Kitri and Basilio in Krasnoyarsk, Russia in 1992.

Mar 9

Mar 9 "Romeo & Juliet" revisited

Videos

In this clip, we revisit this moment of triumph when Ballet Manila opened its 25th season on its 28th year with Martin Lawrance’s Romeo & Juliet.

Mar 8

Mar 8 Talk about dance: Aubrey Lynch

To touch, to move, to inspire. This is the true gift of dance.

Mar 6

Mar 6 Ballet Manila in Full Color: The lure of lilac

Ballet Manila is delicate in lilac.

Mar 1

Mar 1 Ballet Manila Moments: The powerfully feminine Amazonas

Ballet Manila Moments

In this clip from 2019, the corps de ballet of Ballet Manila – women warriors in their own right – perform as the Amazonas of Gerardo Francisco Jr.’s Ibong Adarna.

Feb 27

Feb 27 Home sweet home: Soloist Rissa May Camaclang returns to Ballet Manila stronger and wiser

Interviews

Since returning, Rissa May has been adjusting quite well to the daily Vaganova classes she was once used to.

Feb 23

Feb 23 This Month in BM History: February 2004

This Month In BM History

This Don Quixote run was special for another reason. It celebrated the 16th anniversary of the dance partnership of principal artists Lisa Macuja-Elizalde and Osias Barroso who, by 2004, had already performed some 120 full-length ballets in 40 cities around the world.

Feb 20

Feb 20 Soloist: Jessa Balote

About The Company

Discover the many roles of Jessa Balote, soloist of Ballet Manila.

Feb 18

Feb 18 Talk about dance: William Shakespeare

You have dancing shoes,

With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead

So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

Feb 17

Feb 17 28-year throwback: Keepsakes from Ballet Manila’s two-night launch

As the company celebrates its 28th anniversary and begins its 25th performance season, we look back to its beginnings through these keepsakes painstakingly put together in a scrapbook that first year by Ballet Manila pioneer and now co-artistic associate Eileen Lopez.

Feb 14

Feb 14 Principal dancers Joshua Enciso and Pearl Dames: Living for every Romeo & Juliet moment