Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

(choreographer)

 

EDUCATION AND WORK

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 decided in 2003 to focus solely on choreography. In that same year she was hailed “rising star of the Dutch dance scene” (NRC newspaper) and only 7 years later the Temecula Performing Arts Examiner wrote: “Ochoa is truly a masterful choreographer with an edge for what dance can and should be in this constantly changing industry”. Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is a versatile choreographer who works regularly within the dance field but also creates for theatre, opera, musical theatre. She belongs to the Theater-Dance collective “Fantasten” with whom she created successfully five full-length physical theatre plays, which have been performed in numerous theatres and festivals throughout the Netherlands.

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

“A Streetcar named desire” South Bank Award, National Dance Award for Best classical choreography, and a nomination for the Olivier Award 2012. She has been awarded 3rd prize at the Hannover’s Choreographers competition with the piece “Clair/Obscur” (2002), 1st prize and audience prize with “Replay” (2003), Best Classical Choreography Award by the Circle of Critics for the National Dance Award UK for “A Streetcar Named Desire” and the South Bank Sky Arts Awards in the best new production category for “A Streetcar Named Desire” (2013), the Villanueva Award for best international production in Cuba for “Sombreirismo” (2015).

 

CHOREOGRAPHY

“A Streetcar named desire” (2012, in collaboration with Nancy Meckler, Scottish Ballet)

“Dangerous Liaisons” (2016, Grand Rapids Ballet)

“Broken wings” (2016, English National Ballet)

“Red Riding Hood” (2017, Ballet Black)

“Agua Viva” (2018, Teatro de la Ciudad)

“Balamouk” (2018, NY City Center)

“Tulips and Lobster” (2018, Kansas City Ballet)

“Symbiotic Twin” (2018, Ashley Bouder Project)

“Guernica” (2018, San Francisco Ballet)

“Last Resistance” (2018, Dutch National Ballet)

“Ecliptic” (2019, BalletMet)

“Delusional Beauty” (2019, Washington Ballet)
“The Little Prince” (2019, BalletX)

“Rondo ma non troppo” (2019, Chamber Dance Project)
“Quasicrystal” (2020, Dutch National Ballet)

“Frida” (2020, Dutch National Ballet)