Storytellers on Toes
Ballet Manila Reaches New Heights with its Much-Awaited 22ndPerformance Season This coming August, we invite you to join us for a season of magic, adventure, dreams, and romance as they lift the curtains on their much-awaited 22nd performance season. Aptly named Flights of Fantasy, the new season will feature two world premieres, a beloved classic that proves once and for all that there is nothing in […]
Get ready for a show to end all shows. As the curtain falls on Ballet Manila’s 21st performance season, the country’s premier classical dance company is set to give everything they have for their big finale, which happens to be one of the most technically-challenging ballets ever made—Don Quixote. Happening on February 24 and 25, […]
These five gorgeous danseurs are out to steal the spotlight away from the ballerinas in Ballet Manila’s The Swan, The Fairy and the Princess This October 14-16, the country’s premier classical dance company, Ballet Manila, is staging a ballet that pays tribute to Peter Tchaikovsky—a.k.a. one of the world’s most distinguished composers of all time. […]
The Lisa Macuja School of Ballet Manila spreads its wings to Quezon City The Lisa Macuja School of Ballet Manila recently opened the doors of its new school in Quezon City — its first outside of Pasay City. Conveniently located at the fourth floor of Fisher Mall, the new school fulfills Prima Ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde’s […]
By Michele T. Logarta Ballet Manila company artist Joan Emery Sia relishes the tragic and the sad when it comes to ballets. She favors Swan Lake, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet and La Bayadere over the happy and lively ballets. “As dancers, we know our strengths and weaknesses. My strength is lyrical adagios. I’m not bravura… […]