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Annabelle Lopez Ochoa was selected as one of twelve choreographers to create a thirty-minute ballet for San Francisco Balletβs ππ―π£π°πΆπ―π₯: π ππ¦π΄π΅πͺπ·π’π π°π§ ππ¦πΈ ππ°π³π¬π΄ (2018). For her first San Francisco Ballet commission, ππΆπ¦π³π―πͺπ€π’, Lopez Ochoa drew inspiration from painter Pablo Picasso (1881β1973), particularly ππΆπ¦π³π―πͺπ€π’ (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 βHow do you put cubism into movement?β 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 Ochoaβs ballet also encompasses flamenco dance and bullfighting. The four principal dancers wear bull horns; the bull symbolizes violence and powerβaggressor and victim. Special thank you to San Francisco Ballet for making this exhibition possible. See βSan Francisco Ballet at 90β on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal and online at: https://bit.ly/SFBalletAt90
This image was posted on April 18, 2023.