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Our faculty roster is composed of teachers who have trained intensively and performed professionally in their field.  We make sure that we share our knowledge wholeheartedly and emanate the same passion we have had as performing artists.  We are also aware that learning is a never-ending process.  Thus, as teachers, we constantly educate ourselves through teacher trainings and immersions. Come learn with us for all we want is to share the beautiful world of performing arts with you.

Verna Fajilan-Brazil

Founder â€‹

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Verna started dancing at the age of 3 in Baguio City under Evelyn Crispillo and Bernadette Llabres.  She then got scholarships to train with the Cultural Center of the Philippines Dance School (CCPDS) where she trained with many local and foreign ballet masters.  In 1997, she was accepted as an Apprentice of Ballet Philippines, the country’s premiere dance company for ballet and contemporary dance. After being awarded the Most Outstanding Apprentice, she was then promoted as a company member in 1999.  She then became a Soloist, dancing lead roles in the company’s productions and tours both locally and internationally.  
Apart from dancing, Verna has also been a faculty of the CCPDS, the company’s official dance school.  In 2001, she was appointed as School Principal.  Here, she has trained many students and professional dancers alike, choreographed, and restaged productions both for the CCPDS and Ballet Philippines. More...

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Martina Manalo

Ballet, Jazz, and Contemporary Teacher

 

Martina Manalo is a multidisciplinary artist from the Philippines who began dancing at the age of 2. She continued to dance professionally until the age of 25 as a company artist and a member of the faculty in Ballet Manila and joined the Royal New Zealand Ballet for a few stints in 2013.

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Martina graduated from the Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing (CSTD) at the Halili-Cruz Dance Company in the early days of her dancing career and after which, has been trained under the Russian-Vaganova Method with Ballet Manila.

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She has also garnered several awards from  different international dance competitions  from 2003 until 2007 and has also been awarded by the Philippines’ National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) as a “Young Achiever Awardee for Dance and Ballet Excellence” at the 2006 Global Excellence Awards. 

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Martina has recently earned a few grants in 2018 and 2019 for a movement and choreography residency in both Austria and Bulgaria. She also completed a choreography residency in Wales, United Kingdom from 2018-2019 where she has created a series of contemporary works which focused on integrating dance and humanism, which debuted in London and Wales of the same year. A most recent addition to her works under the said series is entitled, "You Me, Us" which debuted last year for Daloy Dance Company's online summit, "Ugnayan".

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