Creating Work For Johnson County's New Dance Partners Requires A Sense Of Humor

“I’ve learned over the years that you have to leave room for who the dancers are, what the dynamic within that company is, the mistakes that are made, the jokes that are made,” says Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, one of four choreographers collaborating with four dance companies in the annual Kansas City ritual known as New Dance Partners. “I just let myself surprise with what I will see, observing, observing, observing,” Lopez Ochoa says, reaching out and snapping as though snatching something from the air.