Macuja bids farewell to major ballet roles

Prima Ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde has been announcing her farewell to Kitri, the naughty lass in the ballet Don Quixote, which has been her signature dance role, and to her other roles in ballet.

In the next three years, she is saying goodbye to her roles due to acute tendonitis that had her going under operation December 2010.

Macuja said that she is confident that her legacy as a ballerina and artistic director of Ballet Manila (BM) will live on in the many ballerinas and danseurs she has mentored.

This October will be her farewell to "Swan Lake" where she plays twin roles of Odette/Odile, the good and the bad swan. Next year will be her bidding adieu to Kitri in a full production of "Don Quixote" at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Her farewells to other roles like the Sugarplum Fairy in "The Nutcracker", Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Giselle" will follow. — CLEZ