The award-winning choreographer is making 'complex' characters, taking on Coco Chanel’s antisemitism, and asking “What if you were the bitch this time?”
I was in the audience to see a new work by Colombian-Belgian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa titled. Commissioned by the Lincoln Center with support from Chanel, the piece’s premiere on August 9 marked the first time in history that the dance companies participated in a piece together. Sure, they shared the stage last year, but this was different.
While this particular piece was more about unity than anything else, Lopez Ochoa’s usual fare assumes a woman’s point of view—something still rare in classical ballet where women areto which horrible things happen until a man comes to fetch her. Rather than co-opting or restaging the same Russian works created long ago by now-dead men, Lopez Ochoa, who has created over 100 works for more than 70 companies around the world, concocts her own stories with a feminist twist.
The women are not complicated. It is the world they’re born into that makes their behavior complicated.A self-proclaimed former tomboy, she was encouraged to join ballet simply because it was deemed appropriate for little girls at the time—only to be criticized for her weight and “Latina” hips. Her gender was the reason she became a dancer and it was also the reason that becoming a classical ballet dancer was out of the question, leaving much to analyze and pick apart later in her work.
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