• As "Kitri" in the Kirov Ballet's 1986 performance of "Don Quixote," with Farouk Ruzimatov.
• Dancing the title role of "Giselle" with Ravil Bagautdinov at the Kirov Ballet in 1986.
• Lisa danced her first full-length "Romeo and Juliet" with Chinese principal dancer Ou Lu and the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 1988.
• In 1984, Lisa Macuja (fifth from left) graduated at the top of her class from the Leningrad Choreographic Institute in Russia under the tutelage of her mentor Tatiana Udalenkova (center).
• Lisa Macuja was the first ballerina from the Philippines to bring home a laureate prize--a silver medal--from the 1987 Asia-Pacific Ballet Competition in Tokyo, Japan.