Lourdes Lopez Arts

Lourdes Lopez Arts LLC was founded in 2025. With over five decades of experience as an Executive Director, Artistic Director, Principal Dancer, Educator, Director/Producer, and Reporter, Ms. Lopez is uniquely positioned to champion emerging endeavors. She has navigated every facet of the arts and brings this broad perspective to her projects.

Since stepping aside as Artistic Director of Miami City Ballet, Ms. Lopez has focused her energy on developing a fresh, sustainable economic model for the performing and visual arts in Miami—prioritizing robust private sector engagement. Despite the city’s vibrant artistic energy and distinct cultural richness, much of this art remains out of reach for many Miamians. The challenge isn’t the quality of what’s being created, but rather how fragile and inaccessible the arts remain in the city. Their sustainability jeopardized by two key issues: first, the economic model for U.S. nonprofits, reliant on two revenue streams—contributed and earned—remains outdated since the 1950s, leaving arts organizations vulnerable to shrinking public and private funding and rising costs; second, Miami’s expansive footprint, limited public transit, and the absence of a central cultural destination isolates residents from the city’s cultural offerings and creative engagement. In Miami, these deficits have been compounded by sharp declines in federal, state, and local support over the past two years, threatening a sector valued at more than $2 billion and supporting over 30,000 jobs. Building a new, resilient and innovative framework for the arts is therefore essential to positioning Miami as a 21st-century global capital for culture and the arts.

Ms. Lopez also developed a groundbreaking video series, The Art of Partnering™, which explores the critical and indelible art of ballet partnering. Directed by Lourdes Lopez and co-produced with ballet icon Peter Martins, this project unveils the techniques, aesthetics, and artistry required for classical ballet partnering with a focus on the works of George Balanchine. Filmed at the world-renowned, New World Symphony over 30 hours of rehearsals were captured with 9 Ultra High Definition robotic controlled broadcast cameras and 2 Steadicams, creating an unprecedented 360-degree cinematic experience. As the first film project devoted solely to ballet partnering, it promises to redefine how audiences and artists engage with this intricate and under-explored art form.