Lisa Macuja-Elizalde
Ballet Dancer, Visual Artist
1964 –
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Who is Lisa Macuja-Elizalde?
Lisa Teresita Pacheco Macuja-Elizalde is a Prima Ballerina. In 1984, she became the first Filipina prima ballerina, and first foreign soloist to ever join the Kirov Ballet. In the Philippines, she is the Artistic Director of Ballet Manila and Vice-Chairman of the Philippine UNESCO National Commission. She was also the Commissioner of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women. Macuja-Elizalde is also Directress and faculty member of the Ballet Manila School – a training center for ballet professionals who are steeped in the Russian Vaganova method.
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- Born
- Oct 3, 1964
Manila - Ethnicity
- Filipino
- Profession
- Education
- Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet
- Lived in
- Mandaluyong
- Manila
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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