Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

The Colombian-Belgian Annabelle Lopez Ochoa completed her dance education at the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp, Belgium. After a 12-year long career in various European dance companies Annabelle decides in 2003 to focus solely on choreography.

She has created works for 59 dance companies around the world such as Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Royal Ballet of Flanders,  BalletX, Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet Hispanico, Le Jeune Ballet du Québec, BJM-Danse Montréal, Compania Nacional de Danza, and many others.

In April 2012, she creates her first full-length ballet “A Streetcar named desire” in collaboration with theater director Nancy Meckler for the Scottish Ballet. “Streetcar” was acclaimed by both press and public, and received several awards. Since then she has been invited to create more narrative work  such as “Dangerous Liaisons” for Grand Rapids Ballet, “Broken wings; the life and work of Frida Kahlo” for English National Ballet, “Red Riding Hood” for Ballet Black, UK and “Vendetta, storie di mafia” for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.

Ms Lopez Ochoa is a versatile choreographer who works regularly within the dance field but also creates for theatre, opera or musical comedy.

She belongs to the Theater-Dance collective “Fantasten” with whom she created successfully five physical theater plays, which have been performed in numerous theaters and festivals throughout the Netherlands. Annabelle has been invited to the faculty of Jacob’s Pillow Summer School 2016 as a guest contemporary choreographer and classical choreographer in 2018.

Source: choreographer’s website

More information: www.annabellelopezochoa.com