Annabelle is a prolific, award-winning choreographer who has created more than 100 ballets for 79 dance companies around the world.
Annabelle’s choreographic career started in 2003. That same year she was hailed as the “rising star of the Dutch dance scene” (NRC newspaper) and only 7 years later the Temecula Performing Arts Examiner wrote; ”Ochoa is truly a masterful choreographer with an edge for what dance can and should be in this constantly changing industry”. Her wide-ranging body of work includes short conceptual pieces, full-length narratives, and dance films. Annabelle excels in narrative ballet, she has successfully created 13 narrative ballets to date. In 2019, she receives the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and is appointed as the program director of the Contemporary Ballet Summer Intensive at Jacob’s Pillow.