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The ballet – to be performed today, October 26, 7:30 p.m., at the Taoyuan Arts Center – is part of the ongoing 2024 Taoyuan Iron Rose Art Festival.
Even in retirement, The Nutcracker has remained an indelible part of Lisa Macuja-Elizalde’s life. Moreso this year when it has turned out to be a special Nutcracker season for Ballet Manila and the Lisa Macuja School of Ballet, comprised of performances in Taoyuan in Taiwan, and in Manila and in Baguio in the Philippines.
Zhongli Youth Ballet will again send students to Ballet Manila’s Summer Intensive in April and May,
Ballet Manila will remember 2019 as the year it was thrown its biggest curve ball yet.
“It was very fulfilling because it showed off Ballet Manila and the teaching we can offer.”
The Ballet Manila group is led by co-artistic director Osias Barroso who first conducted a workshop for the school in 2018.
If the journey of the Vaganova ballet method were to be charted from its beginnings in Russia, it would show an unlikely destination in the Philippines that then branches out to other points in the Asia-Pacific region.
Ballet Manila co-artistic director Osias Barroso recently conducted classes at the Zhongli Youth Ballet in Taiwan, signaling the start of a possible series of collaborations between the two institutions.
