16 Facts About Lisa Macuja-Elizalde

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde was the Commissioner of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde is the founder of Project Ballet Futures - an internationally recognized community scholarship program that provides training and performance opportunities for deserving public school students.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde is the daughter of Cesar Macuja and Susan Pacheco.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde's elder brother, Julio II, was born in 1963.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde had a younger brother who was a teenage actor and musical artist named Jerome, who was born in 1967 but died in a car accident on September 30,1984, just three days before her 20th birthday, during her first season at the Kirov Ballet.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde is the sister of Gia Macuja, an actress and musical artist who was born in 1971.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde was an apprentice and young soloist of Dance Theater Philippines.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde received her advanced certificate from the Royal Academy of Dancing and earned a scholarship to the Vaganova Choreographic Institute in Leningrad.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde danced with the renowned Kirov Ballet between 1984 and 1986.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde returned to Manila in 1986 and became the first artist-in-residence of the Cultural Center of the Philippines while dancing with Ballet Philippines.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde led her company in outreach performance tours of more than 45 cities and towns throughout the Philippines.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde trained under former Kirov ballerina Tatiana Alexandrovna Udalenkova, who taught her the Russian Vaganova technique.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde graduated at the top of her class in 1984, as she became the first foreign soloist to be invited to join the Kirov ballet.

At the Kirov, Lisa was taught by Galina P Kekisheva under artistic director Oleg Vinogradov.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde is like a spark, a spark full of life.

Lisa Macuja-Elizalde received an Associate of Arts degree in General Studies in 2004 and her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management in 2007 from the University of Phoenix, US, which is an online correspondence school.