This year's Ballet Philippines Dance School- Summer Dance Workshop Recital will be held on Saturday (21, May) and Sunday (22 May) at 2:00p.m. at the CCP Main Theater.
The usual recitals revolve around a particular theme. This year is interesting as it focuses on different divertisements of the established classical ballets namely: Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake. The next half of the show will feature contemporary dance, hip hop and choreographic studies of the company members/dance educators of Ballet Philippines.
On a side note, this year marks the formal conferment of the National Artist Award on Ballet Philippines' Founder and Director Emeritus Alice Reyes. So you see, This is the only dance school in the Philippines that has a long and glorious history of nearly half a century that has produced most of the country's best and brightest artists. Some of these dancers have ventured on to become dance educators, Pilates instructors, and professionals in other disciplines when they hung up their ballet shoes.
The lead roles will be performed by Ballet Philippines company members. Gia Gequinto, Sarah Alejabdro, Rita Winder essay the roles of Coppelia, Princess Aurora and Odette respectively. Earl Sorilla portrays Dr. Coppelius while Timothy Cabrera portrays the role of Prince Florimund. Jean Marc Cordero is in charge of over all direction and Aries Acayaga is stage manager. I watched technical and dress rehearsals for two days and the children were adorable.
Kudos to all the teachers and dance mentors of BPDS (Ballet Philippines Dance School) and our hard working Production staff of seamstresses and production crew for a job well done. As I left the Production Room this evenening the "manangs" had to stay overnight to continue the minute details of repairing and refurbishing the costumes for our future prima ballerinas and premiere danseus.
Just viewing the photos I took makes me smile that dance as a performing art and as a career will go on forever... simply brilliant!!!
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