by Kyra Laubacher | Feb 12, 2025 | News, Onstage, The Latest
With love in the air, February is packed with exciting premieres in the ballet world. The upcoming weeks provide no shortage of new works, expansions, and debuts across the U.S. and abroad. Here are some fresh narrative ballets hitting the stage: Ballet Arizona: U.S....
by Kyra Laubacher | Jan 10, 2025 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of dancer career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in 2025’s first ballet roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments After 17 years with The Royal Ballet, Melissa Hamilton...
by Linnea Swarting | Jan 5, 2024 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
Choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is always on the move. She most recently created a new ballet about Maria Callas at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago in Chile. And earlier in 2023 she choreographed new works for Houston Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Whim W’Him, Pacific...
by Cynthia Bond Perry | Mar 22, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
The little black dress is an essential women’s wardrobe piece and a symbol of its inventor, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. Now, Chanel’s rags to riches life story is the subject of Coco Chanel: The Life of a Fashion Icon, a new ballet choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa...
by Lauren Wingenroth | Mar 18, 2022 | Onstage, The Latest
Updated on 9/15/22. Choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is no stranger to telling the stories of history’s complicated women. Most notably, her Frida, for Dutch National Ballet, explores the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo through vivid, colorful movement, with...
by Laura Cappelle | Jul 30, 2020 | Career, News, The Latest
“Can you caress the wall?,” Annabelle Lopez Ochoa said, frowning to get a better sense of the dancers’ living room on her screen. It was April, and the contemporary ballet choreographer was trying something new. Together with two dancers from the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 3, 2020 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Explores the Life of Frida Kahlo for Dutch National Ballet In 2016, prolific choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa created Broken Wings for English National...
by Madeline Schrock | Dec 19, 2019 | Career, Instagram, Profiles
Slither, slink, undulate, attack. To snakes, these actions are second nature. But seeing them translated onto a skilled dancer, namely BalletX’s Stanley Glover, is thrilling. He certainly fit the bill with his deftly smooth movements in Annabelle Lopez...