by Sophie Bress | Apr 17, 2026 | News, Onstage, The Latest
With its upcoming season at New York City Center, Ballet Hispánico New York is stepping into the future with more pointework and women-created ballets. The program, titled Mujeres: Women in Motion, features works solely by female choreographers. Running from April...
by Emily May | Mar 5, 2026 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Through the posthumous discovery of her diaries, early-19th-century Yorkshire businesswoman Anne Lister has come to be celebrated as the “first modern lesbian.” Lister’s unapologetic approach to living life on her own terms has inspired biographies, novels, and a BBC...
by Louise Ryrie | May 14, 2025 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+
Pilar Ortega, now in her first season with London City Ballet, remembers a time she was asked to step in for another dancer at the last minute. “I frantically marked steps in the wings while the prologue music played,” Ortega says.“I had to trust I knew the...
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...