Cylindrical Shadows

Each piece Annabelle Ochoa Lopez choreographs has some autobiographical seed.

This one grew from a moment on a crowded train in Holland, when she received a phone call: A wonderful dancer, dear friend, and dancer of her signature piece “Before after” had died, suddenly, at 33 years old, apparently healthy and strong, perhaps of a heart attack… The small thread of that large event informs Cylindrical Shadows in many ways.

Of this piece about disturbance, disruptions, and how we survive them, Lopez Ochoa says, “I personally believe that there is no difference between life and death; they are not opposite, as we are taught to believe. They are both part of a single continuum—the continuum of life.”

* Cylindrical Shadows was created in collaboration with Pacific Northwest Ballet.