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We celebrate this day dedicated to paternal figures who show love to their families by providing guidance, support and care with this feature on fathers who have graced the Ballet Manila stage.
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.
We share some of these swoon-worthy moments showing how Ballet Manila’s brides and grooms have sealed their love on stage.
In our Father’s Day feature, we look at the portraits of fatherhood Ballet Manila has presented on stage, often the strict but loving parent providing guidance to his offspring.
In this special series marking National Literature Month, we revisit in photos the three tales of distinguished Filipino author Severino Reyes, as retold by Christine Bellen, which were adapted into Ballet Manila’s Tatlong Pang Kuwento ni Lola Basyang in 2013.
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.
What’s a story without a villain in it? Ballet Manila knows this only too well.
With many interpretations by various companies since its premiere in France in 1789, Ballet Manila came up with its own with no less than People’s Artist of Russia Sergey Vikulov as choreographer.
As National Children’s Book Day is celebrated today, July 20, we look back to that Filipino ballet classic’s beginnings in 2008.
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.
Ballet Manila’s performance run of The Nutcracker in 2013 was special as it was tied in with artistic director and prima ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde’s Swan Song Series.
This was the company’s third such tour in the US, having also gone there in 1996 and 1997.
