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All tagged Alamat: Si Sibol at si Gunaw
As this year’s sweltering summer draws to a close, we celebrate the fan and take a breezy look at the varied forms and functions this implement has taken in Ballet Manila’s productions.
To mark Mother’s Day, we take a quick look at these figures whose maternal instinct – or lack of it – contribute to making each story interesting.
With the upcoming observance of Father’s Day on June 18, we take a look at the dads – the good, the bad and the in-between – that have made their presence felt at the ballet.
For its Christmas offering in 2009, Ballet Manila unwrapped a production that combined a colorful spectacle and a timely message.
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.
In this special feature, we look at the instances when these everyday objects literally had their unfolding moments on stage.
In this video are images from the wedding scene of the 2012 performance of Alamat: Si Sibol at Si Gunaw. It features prima ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde as the goddess Luningning and Nazer Salgado as Kapuy.
Here are ballet characters who wear their wickedness like a badge of honor and who are sorely in need of redemption for their grave lapses.
Acclaimed as the “storytellers on toes,” Ballet Manila has enjoyed a love affair with Philippine literature – transforming tales familiar to Filipino readers into dance and making beloved characters leap off, as it were, from the page to the stage.
While beautiful to behold, flowers are rarely mere decorations in ballet productions.
In this slideshow are scenes from the 2009 performance of Alamat: Si Sibol at si Gunaw with prima ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde as Luningning, with Nazer Salgado as Kapuy, Yanti Marduli as Sibol and Francis Cascano as Gunaw.
Love for nature and environmental protection are the themes underscored in Alamat: Si Sibol at Si Gunaw, which Ballet Manila premiered in 2009.
Ballet Manila danseur Francis Cascaño can aptly draw comparisons with Robin Padilla, the so-called “Bad Boy” of Philippine cinema.
