Prima ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde and internationally acclaimed musical theater actress Joanna Ampil are sharing a role in Ballet Manila’s forthcoming production titled Rebel. In her comeback dancing role, Macuja-Elizalde plays Inang Bayan (Motherland), with Ampil taking on the character’s musical voice. Rebel is a dream project of Macuja-Elizalde, in collaboration with British choreographer Martin Lawrance. […]
Telling a classic hero’s journey in dance
By Michele T. Logarta Choreographer Martin Lawrance is never still, even while seated. Every so often, he taps his feet, snaps his fingers, waves his hands and arms, contorts his torso and twists and turns his shoulders to a beat only he can hear. There’s music in this man and anybody near him can almost […]