Storytellers on Toes
By Susan A. De Guzman Ballet Manila artistic directors Lisa Macuja-Elizalde and Osias Barroso are conducting an intensive dance workshop in Jakarta in what could be the initial step towards the establishment of Indonesia’s first professional ballet company. The Jakarta Intensive Dance Workshop and Showcase 2016 (JIDWaS 2016) will be held at the Katinka International […]
By Susan A.De Guzman Looking ethereal in their gossamer tutus, the two dozen or so ballerinas moving in unison paint an eerie but breathtaking picture. Led by their queen, Myrtha, these so-called wilis — spirits of women jilted by their lovers — take their revenge by making any erring man who comes upon their forest […]
Ballet Manila is proud to have been a part of the recently concluded DANCE.MNL Festival. Until the next one in 2018!
(This article is a chapter from the biography Ballerina of the People published in 2006. In it, Lisa Macuja-Elizalde shares her memories of her first ballet teacher Mrs. Felicitas “Tita” Radaic who instilled in her an enduring love for dance and an understanding of the hard work it would entail. On June 25, as a […]
By Michele T. Logarta Ballet Manila alumna Christine Rocas is in Manila on her break from Joffrey Ballet, the renowned American ballet company based in Chicago where she is a company member. But it’s a working vacation as is always the case for Rocas, who always takes the opportunity to return to her roots in […]