Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is a prolific, award-winning, and sought-after choreographer that has created more than a hundred ballets for 86 dance companies around the world, such as the Dutch National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, English National Ballet, Gothenborg Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Queensland Ballet, Paris Opera Junior Company, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Miami City Ballet, and New York City Ballet, to name a few. 

A versatile choreographer, her wide-ranging body of work includes short conceptual pieces, full-length narratives, and dance films. Since 2019, Annabelle is the program director of the Contemporary Ballet Summer program of the School at Jacob's Pillow.

Annabelle has been recognized with multiple prizes such the Hannover Choreographic Competition and the Bornem Choreographers’ Contest. She is also the recipient of multiple awards, such as the UK Dance Award for Best Classical Ballet, Villanueva Award, South Bank Sky Arts Award, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and in 2025 she received the Dance Lab NY honors.

Annabelle is one of the world's busiest choreographers (a quote by Wendy Peron in Dance Magazine 2016) as well as one of the very few female choreographers who excels in narrative ballets. She has successfully created 15 narrative ballets to date, such as FRIDA, Coco Chanel, the life of a fashion icon, Doña Peron, Callas, La Divina, and A Streetcar Named Desire. In March 2026, she will premiere a brand-new narrative ballet, Gentleman Jack, for the Northern Ballet, for which the production received the Fedora Award.

Annabelle is now resident choreographer at the Dortmund Ballet, Germany.