Ballet Philippines to Perform in Negros

Dance Pull Company and The Performance Laboratory Inc. come together with The Negros Museum to commemorate the 150^th Birth Anniversary of our national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal with BALLET PHILIPPINES’ original dance production Crisostomo Ibarra to be staged at the Colegio San Agustin – Bacolod Gym on July 25, 2011 at 2:00 P.M. (Matinee) and 6:00 P.M. (Gala).

Crisostomo Ibarra is a nominee for Outstanding Dance Production and Outstanding Ensemble Performance in the upcoming 2010 Gawad Buhay Awards for the Performing Arts.

Crisostomo Ibarra on with a grant from the National Commission on Culture and the Arts is a contemporary ballet performance, choreographed by BP Artistic Director Paul Alexander Morales, with original music by Jed Balsamo, captures the journey of Rizal’s protagonist in his revolutionary novel Noli Me Tangere, from aristocratic idealist to revolutionary pragmatist. Ibarra’s awakening is told in dance vignettes that show scenes from the novel—events that spur him to change.

Dance Pull Company and The Performance Laboratory Inc. will bring the prestigious ballet company in Negros for a rare performance and a more rare opportunity as artists to help the Negros Museum. Choreorapher and dance artist Dwight Rodrigazo of Dance Pull Dance Company and The Garcia-Sanchez School of Dance Artistic Director Georgette Sanchez are just two Negrenses who are members of the Ballet Philippines. Touring with the Ballet Philippines Bacolod’s Macel Dofitas, one of the students of The Garcia-Sanchez School of Dance.

Tickets of P1000, P500, P300 and P100 are available at the Negros Museum 708-5080, MMB Dance Center 707-7164, Lydia Gaston School of Dance 453-0226, The Garcia-Sanchez School of Dance 434-8139 and Dance Pull Dance School 456-1291.  Students will be given 30% discount and bulk purchases can avail of special discounts also.