Lisa

• Main Authors: Abellera, Gina, Hernandez, Zarah, Labial, Leilani
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1988
• Subjects: Ballet dancers; Ballet > Historiography; Documentary television programs
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/6067
• Institution: De La Salle University

Lisa is a video documentary on Ms. Lisa Macuja, a Filipina ballet dancer. The documentary traces Ms. Macuja's development as a dancer, from her early ballet training at the St. Theresa's College, to her stay in the Soviet Union, up to her becoming the first artist-in-residence of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The documentary discusses the different aspects in Ms. Macuja's career that make her very promising. The main bulk of the documentary consists of interviews. The persons interviewed, aside from Ms. Macuja are her mother, Susan Macuja, Ballet Philippines' Nonoy Froilan, William Morgan, Edna Vida, dance teachers Felicitas Tita Radaic and Basilio Villaruz, and critic Pablo Tariman. Lisa Macuja, being the subject of the documentary, provided the backbone for the documentary, while the other persons interviewed provided supplementary discussions. Excerpts from Ms. Macuja's dances and footage of her in the Soviet Union, with friends, teaching, etc. were included. This 26-minute video documentary was shot entirely using the beta format, but was edited in U-matic. To ensure the smooth flow of the topics discussed in the documentary, a narrator was used.