Girding for its 50th anniversary next season, Ballet Philippines (BP) presented “Exemplars,” an ambitious program that revisited ’70s classics which defined the company’s style. “Exemplars” was eye candy: a sequence
Alice Reyes was at the sidelines watching a dozen or so young dancers sit on folded legs, their torsos swaying forward and back randomly as they moaned.
In the run-up to its golden anniversary in 2019, Ballet Philippines (BP) wants to bring the company’s classics “to a new audience.” Alice Reyes, BP artistic director emerita, calls her
The winners of the 2016 Philstage Gawad Buhay Awards have been announced, and we all know that Tanghalang Pilipino’s “Mabining Mandirigma,” a musical that cast a female lead as
In the Gawad Buhay, Philstage’s annual awards for the performing arts, the Natatanging Gawad Buhay awardees are special. They are elected by the artists of Philstage themselves, unlike the
A performance tribute will be given on Thursday, April 14 at 6 p.m. to three individuals who were proclaimed National Artists in 2009 and six National Artists whose proclamations were
Ballet Philippines opens its season with “Body Positive +, A Dance Gala for HIV Awareness.” Featuring excerpts from “Swan Lake,” Mark Bogaerts’ “Bolero, “Enrico Labayen’s “Cloth” and other landmark pieces,
It has been almost six months since President Aquino proclaimed the new National Artists, but there’s no sign they will be formally honored as required by law.
Ballet Philippines’ “The Blue Moon Series,” a showcase of some of its most well-loved pieces featuring the choreography of such dance stalwarts as Alice Reyes, Agnes Locsin, Tony Fabella, Denisa Reyes, Bam Damian and Alden Lugnasin, among others, took the lead in the third-quarter citations of the 2014 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, with collective 16 citations in the creative, performance and technical categories.
Ballet Philippines is staging anew Alice Reyes’ “Cinderella” beginning Nov. 28, 8 p.m. at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, Cultural Center of the Philippines.
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