Lately, more and more producers, are choosing theater pieces that require their actors to sing, dance and act. The demand for actors who can just sing and act has long
Actors who are nondancers are pushed to dance with technical precision. PJ Rebullida is among the younger choreographers taking up the challenge of training them.
Filipino-American ballet dancer Stella Abrera was in fine form during rehearsals at Maybank Theater this Wedneday, April 3. The principal dancer of the prestigious American Ballet Theater (ABT) performed a
Eight dancers of American Ballet Theater (ABT) will appear in fundraising dance concerts this summer. Event is organized by Stella Abrera, the first Fil-Am principal dancer of ABT, to
Every year, Ayala Malls have always been conscious to make sure that their audiences are exposed to quality culture and arts. Every year, we bring song and dance to the malls, and we make sure it’s always something different,” says Sofia Zobel-Elizalde, Steps Dance Studio managing director, who is at the helm of this year’s Christmas program series for the Ayala shopping chain, dubbed “Frankly Speaking.”
The onstage theater for the performing arts at Ayala Center Cebu overflowed with appreciative audiences on Nov. 7 and 8, when Balletcenter presented a full-length production of “Cinderella.”
Manila’s premier dance school Steps Dance Studio is holding its summer dance workshop, which is open to all beginning and advanced dance students. This year’s workshop, which runs everyday until May 24, is expected to be especially exciting and memorable as it culminates in Steps’ 20th anniversary concert.
A few blocks away from where mini-skirted, dusky, long-haired ladies in platformed stilettoes stroll hand-in-hand with foreign men in Birkenstocks and cargo shorts, and a corner away from a bar that features midget boxing, karaoke joints offering foot massages on the side, and cafés that serve Lonely Planet meals and drinks, has risen a glass-and-concrete building with a lofty but realistic purpose of training young would-be dancers in ballet, an art form that is perceived by a majority to be elitist.
What lies in the minds of young children that gestates as they grow older, is sometimes never forgotten, and one day is realized, whether in the reality of life itself or in a beautiful fantasy translated in an art form?
Think of any kind of dance, and you’ll play some music in your head. It could be heavy bass beats for hiphop; smooth, suave notes for jazz; or a light
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