When Columbian-Belgian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa was a child, she thought pantings could come to life and that at night, the objects and figures in them would walk out of frame. “I would look at the painting, look away, and then look back and it felt like they moved. I thought they had a soul,” Lopez Ochoa recalls. “The artist made a decision and froze a certain moment in time [in the painting], so I know they have a present and future. My process is to reverse the freezing and ask: but how did we get to that moment and what happened after that moment?” The paintings Lopez Ochoa has been ruminating on are those of Frida Kahlo. The Mexican artist is the subject of her ballet Frida, which is premiering in Asia this April, performed by the Hong Kong Ballet. “What really fascinated and inspired me [about Kahlo] was how this artist was unashamed about expressing her emotions, the pain she felt and the tragedy that she lived,” the choreographer tells Artomity a month …