Hotel Sogo continues to care as it ramped up its effort in helping the country’s indigent communities by reaching out to several communities in Luzon. Recently, it donated school supplies to over 300 school children in Triangulo Elementary School - Diversion Road, CBD II, Barangay Triangulo, Naga, and Oroc-Osoc Elementary School - Oroc-Osoc, Caramoan, Camarines Sur. Hotel Sogo also distributed long sleeve shirts and black out tarp cover from Hotel Sogo’s collateral materials for use as cover for tourist and fishing boats to 200 fisherfolks from Brgy.Paniman, Caramoan Camarines Sur. For more information about Hotel Sogo, check out https://www.hotelsogo.com.
The country’s preeminent ballet and contemporary dance
company, the Ballet Philippines present this August a show featuring various
international Filipino stars coming from different dance companies in the word
today, like Candice Adea from BalletMet and Hongkong Ballet, Marcelino Libao of
Hamburg Ballet, Kris-Belle Paclibar from Cirque Du Soleil, Ronelson Yadao of
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Paul Ocampo & Chien-Ying Wang of OcampoWang
Dance, and Jean Marc Cordero & Rita Angela Winder of Ballet Kiel, all of
them are formerly members of Ballet Philippines.
A Gala Celebration also mark the return of Alice Reyes,
the National Artist for Dance and former Artistic Director of BP. She is the
one who choose the choreograph gems for this show such as Agnes Locsin’s
Salome, Bam Damian’s Minamahal Sinasamba, Edna Vida’s Vision of Fire, Norman
Walker’s Summer’s End, and excerpt from classical ballet “Raymonda”.
“The Gala is my way of saying, come watch the Filipino
dance artist has done, coz were featuring dancers who gone out and stars in
various dance companies all over the world, we are featuring them alongside our
own company members.” Alice Reyes said.
It is the season opener for the 48th season of BP
entitled “Quintessence” that runs August 18 up to 20 only at the main theater
of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
“What excite us in this Gala celebrations is we have our
Artistic Director Emeritus Alice Reyes, we are very excited to present how good
our dancers are, that we are planning also for our 50th year, and we
are also performing in Cambodia and in China.” Margie Moran, President, Ballet
Philippines.
For more of Ballet Philippines connect online thru www.facebook.com/balletphilippines,
twitter @balletph Instagram: @balletphilippines and Youtube balletph. Tickets pls call Ballet Philippines at +632
551-1003, CCP Box Office 832-3704 or Ticketworld 891-9999.
“Its’ very exciting, as you can see they are fearless, their
attitude, they do it with love and passion and fun, great fun, great dancing
and it will make you feel proud as a Filipino.” Reyes said in closing about the
dancers of BP.
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