By PABLO A. TARIMAN Photos by VICTOR GAMOSA URSABIA The weekend run of one of the world’s favorite ballet, Giselle, opened Friday last week with another monstrous flood that hit Metro Manila at the height of Typhoon Mario. “I am used to bad weather but this horrendous monsoon rain was the worst to hit a
BY PABLO A. TARIMAN Photos by VICTOR URSABIA BALLET Philippines’ 44th season perked up Manila’s ballet scene anew with the re-staging of Giselle which opened Friday last week with both curiosity and excitement for the new ballet heroines. The opening night Giselle was Carissa Adea with the Albrecht of Richardson Yadao and it closed with
By PABLO A. TARIMAN Photos by EDNA VIDA STAGE and film actress Shamaine Centenera Buencamino is the beleaguered, if, repentant mother of Julia Montes in “Walang Hanggan,” a role that she played with such realism she towered over everybody in the ensemble. Indeed, she has enough resources in her acting arsenal to make the
By PABLO A. TARIMAN LIKE it or not, Giselle is the stuff of present-day teleserye with poignant dancing scenes portraying pure love, cut short by misconstrued betrayal and then the final act showing love and death in the graveyard. It is a mere coincidence that two of the country’s top stage and film actors are
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
MANILA’S balletomanes could have watched their last Filipino Giselle when Lisa Macuja Elizalde danced what she said was her last crack at this ballet masterpiece Sunday night with David Makhateli (formerly of The Royal Ballet) and with the Manila Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Alexander Vikulov of the Marinsky Theater.