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Annabelle Lopez Ochoa was selected as one of twelve choreographers to create a thirty-minute ballet for San Francisco Balletโs ๐๐ฏ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ: ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด (2018). For her first San Francisco Ballet commission, ๐๐ถ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ข, Lopez Ochoa drew inspiration from painter Pablo Picasso (1881โ1973), particularly ๐๐ถ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ข (1937), which he painted in response to the devastating bombing of the Basque town Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. In her choreography, Lopez Ochoa sought to answer the question โHow do you put cubism into movement?โ She created cubist effects by arranging dancers into poses, so that the brain appears to see four heads and only two legs. The four principal dancers appear on stage as four embodiments of a person, sometimes separate, sometimes in pairs, or as a foursome. Lopez Ochoaโs ballet also encompasses flamenco dance and bullfighting. The four principal dancers wear bull horns; the bull symbolizes violence and powerโaggressor and victim. Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet for making this exhibition possible. See โSan Francisco Ballet at 90โ on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://bit.ly/SFBalletAt90
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