Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

The Belgian-Colombian Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is a prolific, award-winning, and sought-after choreographer that has created more than a hundred ballets for 80 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. 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 in February/March 2023. Annabelle is one of the world's busiest choreographers (Dance Magazine, 2016) as well as one of the very few female choreographers who excels in narrative ballet. She has successfully created 14 narrative ballets to date.