A Guide To Modern Dance
Ballet X
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Choregraphy
WHYSEEART
An artist talk given at the Harrison College House rooftop Sky Lounge, Upenn. on March 1st, an art show and talk presented the concept behind WHYSEEART drawing in the audience of performance artists.
My campaign for comp-tickets shares my passion, and designs a model for drawing in the audience.
A guide and translation of myth and ritual with Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers in 2026 presented the graphic art form of Live sketching in collaboration with this dance company, A long standing partnership from 2016- 2026. the encouragement from Kun-Yang Lin/dancers to continue to Draw form dance was Transformative.
My research looks into philosophy, sociology, and phenomenology.
Community Impact
Art in a Public Space
A New Lens for New Audiences
In collaboration for marketing and advertising described as a public art project. The goal of outreach to bring site specific art to a civic space where new audiences engage with the purpose of the performing arts. A call to everyone as the viewer, the critic, and the passerby. They all take part in the creation of every performance.
Ballet X, presented The Little Prince 2026.
Chuck Schultz
Sketch Artist
★★★★★
Audience Reviews
The show sketches from the audience render visual works motivated by the choreography. They investigate the themes expressed in the movement. My observation of, The Little Prince adapted to ballet, characterization of the story with quick in-and-out movements surrounding the imagination of the boy from Asteroid B12. The most meaningful moments gives a more obscure translation of transformation between moral values form the story to acute symbolism in the dance. In the story, the adventure takes imagining the ensemble dance with puzzle pieces of the plane crash, the garden of roses and the Fox, as it emphasizes the meaning of the box and the “bah-ing” of the sheep.
The drawings bring forth a new reading of the story. A ballet, the Little Prince, enters the Pilot, and the Snake making it illustrative of the sense of mystery by Antoinette Saint-Exupéry. A certain characterization for each dancer made this dance especially challenging to capture it. In a world of dances the story of The Little Prince discovers what it means to grow-up, and be a great person.
Ballet X
Fall Fest 2024
WHYSEEART.
Choreography by Barcelona-based Cayetano Soto in 2018, was unforgettable for its use of tricycles, illuminating ticker signs. The dancers wearing kilts riding tricycles in a dance context, for Ballet X since 2016 celebrates its 10th Anniversary Season with some incredible storytelling through choreographic works of notable artists.
Napoleon/Napoleon,
by Cayetano Soto in 2018
Choreography by Nicolo Fonte
Beautiful Decay
2017
Ballet X Rehearsal
2017
Castrati, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
2017
The Drunkard
The Little Prince A Children’s book adapted to ballet for Annabelle Lopez Ochoa means to introduce the many personalities the Little Prince comes across, holds our focus until… INTERMISSION. The snake, the Pilot crashes in the desert.
“HELLO? WHO ARE YOU?”WHERE ARE YOU?” .
The Little Prince
A Narcissist
The Business Woman
The Explorer
The Fox
The Last Life Boat, 2018
by Marguerite Donlon
We have seen a piece about the Titanic, a survivor, and the family lineage of this choreographer, Marguerite Donjon. It is extra contextual information that goes into reading this dance.
SHOW SKETCHES: CULTURE
Notes: the influence of Hellmut Fricke-Gottschild in Philadelphia for Nicolo Fonte’s ballet, Beautiful Decay. The story of Marguerite Donlon’s grand-aunt Kate Gilnhoagh maybe draws us in closer to the ritual-esque.