The Belgian-Colombian Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is a prolific, award-winning, and sought-after choreographer that has created more than a hundred ballets for 81 dance companies around the world. A versatile choreographer, Lopez Ochoa’s wide-ranging body of work includes short conceptual pieces, full-length narratives, and dance films. Annabelle is proud to be the program director of the Contemporary Ballet Summer program of the School at Jacob’s Pillow since 2019. In the season 2025/26, she will become artist-in-residence at Ballet Dortmund in Germany, a position she will share with choreographer Edward Clug.
During the pandemic of 2020-21, Lopez Ochoa pioneered remote choreography and dance film creations premiered online. She created a total of 22 dance films. In 2023, Annabelle’s notoriety made her to be invited as a judge on the TV show The Greatest Dancer of Vlaanderen. The show aired on Belgian National TV for 9 episodes in February/March 2023.
Annabelle is one of the world’s busiest choreographers (quote by Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine 2016) as well as one of the very few female choreographers who excels in narrative ballet. She has successfully created15 narrative ballets to date such as “FRIDA” for Dutch National Ballet, “Coco Chanel, the life of a fashion icon” a co-production with Hong Kong Ballet, Queensland Ballet and Atlanta Ballet, “Doña Peron” for Ballet Hispanico, “Callas, La Divina” for Ballet del Municipal de Santiago, and the multi award-winning production “A Streetcar named desire” created in 2012 for the Scottish Ballet.
In April 2025, Annabelle will premiere a brand-new full-length version of Carmen for Miami City Ballet.
