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Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Introduction
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa makes sleek and stylish dances that are unabashedly virtuosic. Dancers deepen their technical prowess in pursuit of her aesthetic framtidsperspektiv. When performing her works, they seem to lift their legs higher, vända faster, slice more precisely, tilt farther, explode with greater ease, and sail through the air. All with confidence that appears effortless. As a freelance artist, Lopez Ochoa makes work for dance companies of different sizes, scales, and styles, from contemporary ballet to jazz, from companies with long pedigrees to ung start-ups. It is unusual for any choreographer to move across the dance spectrum the way she does, and altogether rare for a woman choreographer.
Lopez Ochoa, half-Colombian and half-Belgian, danced with a jazz dance company and Scapino Ballet Rotterdam in the Netherlands before focusing her attention on choreography. The companies that dance her works reflect her diverse background.
In an interview
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Jacoby & Pronk, No Longer Together, Yet Still Stunning [Video]
Drew Jacoby and Rubinald Pronk Excerpt Reel
The powerful duo, though no longer together, has left a mark in the contemporary ballet world. Their performance below is a testament to their technical prowess and artistry.
Drew Jacoby and Rubinald Pronk joined their talents in 2007 to create Jacoby and Pronk. But who are these dancers and how did they come together?
Finally, why did they end their five year (2007-2012) successful partnership?
Jacoby & Pronk, No Longer Together, But Still Stunning
Drew Jacoby was born in Boise, Idaho, and studied at the School of American Ballet, and San Francisco and Pacific Northwest ballet schools. She began her professional career at 17 as a principal dancer with LINES Ballet in San Francisco.
In 2005, she was invited to participate in Sylvie Guillem’s Japan tour, where she danced principal roles alongside dancers from the Royal Ballet London and Paris Opera Ballet. She
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Otherworldly
Drew Jacoby and Rubinald Pronk give ballet a whole new image.
When Drew Jacoby and Rubinald Pronk take the stage, the collective gasp by the audience is audible. What is it about these two electric dancers, whose movements eat up space, all crazy limbs and sultry slink? Many feel they are remarkable for their height, which, admittedly, is powerful (Jacoby is 5’11” and Pronk is 6’2″). But it’s their lush quality of movement, not only their amazing extensions, that renders them hypnotizing. Jacoby’s steely strength and Pronk’s fluid hyper-flexiblity defy the usual gender norms of a ballet partnership. They possess a brimming, almost menacing, energy, and the sense that they are daring each other is palpable. It is their unique quality that gave them the courage to do what few dancers dare to even dream about—try their luck at making it on their own, sans company.
The pair made their debut as Jacoby & Pronk at the 2008 Dance