Evo & Grace: The WanderLusts

Bibeth Orteza is Pilar Tanghalang Ateneo is honoring women in their 41 st season with Dolorosa by Peter Zaragoza Mayshle under the direction of Jenny Jamora, it opens last August 16 at The Doreen Black Box, Arts Wing of Arete inside Ateneo De Manila University campus in Quezon City. They call this season as Ecriture Feminine, Sulat Babae in short The Women’s Season. It is not easy watching Dolorosa, this is a 3-hour play set in three different periods of Philippine history starting at Spanish colonialization, to Japanese occupation and at the present time, it tells a story of a family from a father who artistically creates a Mater Dolorosa statue and later lost it, and her only child Pilar who explore the unknown world trying to find that important missing family patrimony that she can pass to her children. Even though there are breaks in between hour of the play, Dolorosa is full of confusion at first set, giving you many questions on what is going on, you can feel t...

Ballet Manila Dancers perform an excerpt from La Traviata (Photo by Erickson Dela Cruz) Two Princess, one classic and two collaborative opera, are the show offering of Ballet Manila on its 24 th season with a theme “On Pointe” that represent the shoes of all ballerina which make them stand and dance daintily on her shoes. Excerpt from Giselle by Ballet Manila (Erickson Dela Cruz) The line-up of shows according to Ballet Manila CEO and Artistic Director Lisa Macuja-Elizalde is related to the company’s Russian Vaganova style of training and dancing, which is being able to dance on pointe. This season will also mark the 24 years of Ballet Manila. Excerpt from Carmina Burana (Erickson Dela Cruz) “No we're not expecting anybody from abroad this season,  we have 5 principles dancers in the company and so many capable soloists to dance the classic Giselle, the sleeping beauty, we are doing an original Filipino ballet on the 25 th season,” Macuja said during its media l...