Let your child learn: Grace and Discipline through the Beautiful Art of Ballet

St. Theresa's College, Cebu announces the opening of its Center for Classical Dance (Ballet/Modern/Jazz) in January 2007. Felicitas L. Radaic has been tasked to organize the Center which will be headed by Mylene Saldaña as Dance Directress

Mylene Saldaña started training in the R.A.D (Royal Academy of Dancing) system, under the tutorship of Solita Saldaña, her mother, and in 1986 won a Summer Scholarship in the Cultural Center of the Philippines School of Dance. Thereafter, she enrolled under a scholarship program in the Radaic School of Classical Ballet and shortly after, was accepted as apprentice in Dance Theatre Philippines, then a resident company at the University of the Philippines.

From apprentice she rose to soloist status and later was selected as Principal Dancer in a full-length Philippine ballet, "Mir-i-nisa" choreographed by Julie Borromeo and Felicitas L. Radaic. This was a re-staging to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the founding of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

In 1990 she joined the newly-founded Philippine Ballet Theatre as soloist. That same year, the Artistic Director of the Central Ballet of China, Li Cheng-Xiang came to the Philippines to re-stage "Dreams of the Red Chamber" (under the auspices of the PROC Ministry of Culture) with Chinese Principal Artists Zhang Dan-Dan and Wei Dong Sheng. The Artistic Director chose Mylene Saldaña as the second lead to Zhang Dan-Dan.

In 1991 Mylene, competed with 300 contestants in the Asia Pacific Ballet Competition in Tokyo, Japan and came out as one of the finalists.

In 1993, Robert Barnett, Director of the Atlanta Ballet (USA) discovered her in Manila and chose her to dance the lead role in Blanchine's "Concerto Barocco" in a series of Manila performances by the Philippine Ballet Theatre.

Invited by Barnett to the USA, she received a scholarship in the Atlanta Ballet School, and later, moving to New York for the summer, she won a scholarship into the Jeoffrey Ballet School.

Choosing an early retirement from performing, Mylene turned into teaching, and opened her own studio in Quezon City, Metro Manila. She took the Teachers Seminar of the NCCA- endorsed Philippine National Ballet Syllabus which she will now implement as Directress of the Center for Classical Dance at St. Theresa's College, Cebu City.

Enrollment at St. Theresa's College starts in November and classes begin on January 3, 2007. For details, please see, call or email Ms. Sherryl Muli-Abellanosa at the Information Desk of STC with the telephone number 253-6337 or telefax number 253-3468 and email add: [email protected].