BALLET IN THE

PHILIPPINES

Lesson 14
LEARNING TARGET
 Describe how an idea or story in a musical play is
presented in live performance.
 Explain how theatrical elements in a selected part of
a musical play are combined with music and media to
achieve certain effects.
 Creates/improvise appropriate sounds, music,
gestures, movements and costume using media and
technology.
Enumerate some terms that you can associate with the picture
BALLET
 Is a theatrical dance that combines dance d’ecole
dance technique(academic dance technique)music,
costume, and stage scenery.
 It started in Italy during the Renaissance period.
 Ballet was first used as form of royal entertainment.
PHILIPPINE BALLET
 Ballet was first introduced in our country as
compositional presentation during the Spanish
colonization.
 The performance of different international ballet dancers
or groups in the country led to the formal establishment
of ballet in the Philippines.
BALLET PRODUCTION IN THE PHILIPPINES
 Lola Basyang
 Pen name of Severino
Reyes who wrote children
stories published in
Liwayway ( the oldest
magazine in the country)
STORIES

 The story narrates

the love between a
princess and a bird
prince
 Pedro the main
protagonist of the
story, was on the quest
to find his three sisters,
who had been abducted
by the guardians of a
magical tree.
 The story tells of a
typical Filipino who
works hard but fails to
get compensated equally.
 The story is a good
reminder that the good
always triumphs over
evil and kindness always
reaps blessings in return.
Is a ballet and musical production
based on the Indian epic,
Ramayana.

The story emphasize the undying

love of Sita and Rama.

Rama – the reincarnation of the

Hindu god Vishnu – is a prince who
has been exiled together with his
faithful wife, Sita
Assignment:

Answer activity 1 & 2 : page 72