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.
All tagged Sleeping Beauty
In this Halloween feature, we showcase these witches we love to hate who have unleashed their malevolence the Ballet Manila way.
To celebrate May, the month of flowers, we once again pluck images from the Ballet Manila Archives featuring an assortment of blooms in the company’s shows. Enjoy this year’s lovely bouquet!
We join the celebration of International Fairy Day, June 24, with a look at the fairies who have enchanted their way into our hearts through Ballet Manila’s stories.
The venue may have changed and the dates postponed, but still, the curtains rose on Lisa Macuja-Elizalde’s Sleeping Beauty.
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.
Death scenes in ballet can be complicated, and the moments leading up to a heartbreaking end perhaps the most difficult to accomplish.
While beautiful to behold, flowers are rarely mere decorations in ballet productions.
"Pang-bravura ang dancing style ko talaga or mga roles na attack, attack, attack! Hindi ganyan ang Sleeping Beauty.”
From Swan Lake to Ibong Adarna, Ballet Manila has enthralled audiences with enchanted creatures.
Success comes not from a single winning moment but a series of victories, both big and small.
Sleeping Beauty is special to Lisa for a lesser known reason.
While I dance, I can not judge, I can not hate, I can not separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. This is why I dance.
