Unfazed by unsettling times, National Artist Alice Reyes has formed a new company. Alice Reyes Dance Philippines (ARDP) was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission last month, just ahead
National Artist for Dance Alice Reyes can’t stay put. “I’m an essential worker,” she insists. Reyes, former artistic director of Ballet Philippines (BP), turns 78 Oct 14. She has just
The succession of artistic direction in Ballet Philippines (BP) is still a hotly contested issue as the term of its founder and National Artist for Dance, Alice Reyes, ends this
Despite an ominous cloud of uncertainty regarding the future of Ballet Philippines (BP), the lobby of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) began to fill up on the evening
In the Ballet Philippines (BP) controversy that just won’t go away, the initial issue, many agree, is neither the competence of the incoming BP artistic director, nor the direction BP
Alice Reyes sits among costumes, piled high or hung, holding court discussing details of Ballet Philippines’ upcoming Christmas production, advising an injured dancer, ordering food. Her once long, dark, whiplash
It was sorcery of the palatable kind that announced the 50th season of Ballet Philippines.
I like wild!’ exclaims Alice Reyes as she talks to Inquirer Lifestyle about the circumstances behind her handpicked choices of the new cast of the 2019 restaging of “Tales of the Manuvu,” the 1977 rock opera ballet hailed as a groundbreaking production when it debuted at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).
Brimming with a palpable sense of pride and joy, Alice Reyes—National Artist for Dance, founder of Ballet Philippines (BP), Mother of Contemporary Dance, and doting nanay to 3-year-old grandson Nico—reveals a side that would surprise even her closest contemporaries.
Like an empty canvas ready to receive an artist’s medium, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, devoid of sets, was ready to showcase a palette of Ballet Philippines’ repertoire for
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