15 Facts About Ballet Manila

Ballet Manila is a classical ballet institution and dance company in the Philippines.

Ballet Manila has done tours in Asia, Europe and North America, where it has held more than 140 performances.

Ballet Manila is most notable for its in-house creative director, principal dancer and prima ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde.

Ballet Manila has featured full-length performances of Swan Lake, Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Giselle, La Bayadere, Romeo and Juliet, Carmen, Le Corsaire, and other classical staples, as well as contemporary Filipino ballet pieces by some of the Philippines most distinguished choreographers.

Ballet Manila has performed non-classical pieces such as the major production piece Tatlong Kuwento ni Lola Basyang.

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Ballet Manila performs short non-classical pieces which they perform at the Star City amusement center to cater to the masses, such pieces include Paskong Pista and Hi-skul Musikahan which directly translates and is a Filipino ballet rendition of High School Musical.

Ballet Manila has performed in international tours, more than 140 times since 1995.

Ballet Manila received good raves and high praises in their performances of a recent 2011 United Kingdom and Ireland tour.

Ballet Manila was said to have received eight standing ovations in all of its eight performances in the same tour.

Ballet Manila performed in the Venetian Theatre in Macau in June 2013.

Ballet Manila School started as a spin-off from the “Lisa Macuja Summer Workshop” which was originally conducted in the summer of 1995.

Ballet Manila officially opened its own summer workshops in April 1997, this time at the permanent facility, where the first enrollees were thirty six students.

The Ballet Manila School has direct links with the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St Petersburg, Russia.

Ballet Manila holds ballet workshops during summers, this is done on top of the professional training and regular master classes for the company.

Ballet Manila stated that she would eventually concentrate on being the company's artistic director after a series of farewell performances.