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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.
An ally to Ballet Manila since it debuted in 1995, the Friends for Cultural Concerns of the Philippines (FCCP) chose to feature the company in a cocktail musical called Artists & Friends on April 29, 2004 that celebrated the group’s 25th anniversary.
For its Christmas offering in 2009, Ballet Manila unwrapped a production that combined a colorful spectacle and a timely message.
In observance of United Nations Day, we take a look at this scene of delightful pageantry as Ballet Manila performed Act 2 of the beloved holiday show in Nutkraker: Pasko na Naman Muli (2014).
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.
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.
It is this flair for the dramatic that makes Prince Siegfried a much sought-after role among male ballet dancers.
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.
What’s a story without a villain in it? Ballet Manila knows this only too well.
Of the many minor characters in the lengthy roster of Don Quixote the ballet, no one heats up the dance floor like Mercedes and Espada do.
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.
The war between the Montagues and the Capulets is the central conflict in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
From the years that Ballet Manila has been staging Giselle since 1999, here are a few select photographs.
Another inspiration for Giselle was reportedly French novelist Victor Hugo’s poem Fantomes, featured in the anthology Les Orientales (1829)
This was the company’s third such tour in the US, having also gone there in 1996 and 1997.
Love for nature and environmental protection are the themes underscored in Alamat: Si Sibol at Si Gunaw, which Ballet Manila premiered in 2009.
