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.
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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.
In the original Marius Petipa choreography, the scene known as The Dream showed Don Quixote in his shining armor fighting monsters, including a giant spider.
In scenes fraught with heart-wrenching anguish, Ballet Manila has artfully merged death and dance.
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.
The Ballet Manila School, now known as the Lisa Macuja School of Ballet, marked a decade of offering summer workshops in 2007
This was the company’s third such tour in the US, having also gone there in 1996 and 1997.
The company danced The Nutcracker with a “Small Masha” and a “Big Masha,” the same way the Russian Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg does it, interpreting the Vassily Vainonen version.
