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.
Ballet Manila has showcased a rich palette of hues in its productions over the years. Now, the company’s true colors are revealed! 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.
Jessa Balote is graceful and demure in her peach tutu with an intricate floral bodice as one-third of a pas de trois in Act 1 of Swan Lake (2017). Photo by Ocs Alvarez
In Don Quixote (2004), one of Kitri’s friends (Jenny Olayvar) wears a tutu with a tiered peach skirt accented with multi-colored laces mirrored in the armbands. Joining everyone having fun at the town plaza, she turns and twirls, her skirt flaring delicately about her. Photo by Ocs Alvarez
As an auditionee for a talent search in Hazel Sabas’ Sinderela (2012), Tiffany Chiang-Janolo dons a peach-and-salmon mini decorated with floral appliqués as she and partner Francis Jaena try to catch the casting director’s attention. But her rivals, the Stepmom (Jonathan Janolo) and her daughters (Gerardo Francisco Jr. and Michael Divinagracia) – all incidentally clad in a range of orange outfits – are clearly not impressed. Photo by Ocs Alvarez
Everything’s peachy, literally, when Sofia Sangco-Peralta joins the community in a festive gathering in Giselle (2012). She and her friends opt for pastel colors, and hers just happens to be peach. Photo by Ocs Alvarez
Dancing in the palace grounds in tutus of peach and mint green, these court ladies in Swan Lake (2017) savor performing at the coming-of-age celebration for Prince Siegfried. Photo by Ocs Alvarez
In Dalagang Pilipina, Tony Fabella’s tribute to the modern Filipino woman, the all-female ensemble wears gowns of different colors. Rissa May Camaclang is in a peach confection decorated with beads and baubles that glitter when hit by the light. The number was part of the OPM suite presented in The Silver Gala, Ballet Manila’s performance in Baguio City in October 2023. Photo by Giselle P. Kasilag
The village girls in Giselle (2005) go for happy colors, including peach and orange for the two at the right, as the town engages in merriment as Giselle and Albrecht fall giddily in love with each other. Photo by Ocs Alvarez
