Miami City Ballet Picks Lourdes Lopez To Succeed Edward Villella

Miami City Ballet has selected Lourdes Lopez, a Miami-reared former New York City Ballet dancer and director of the Morphoses dance company, as its new artistic director. She will start work May 1, 2013.Lopez, 53, succeeds Edward Villella, the former New York City Ballet star and George Balanchine dancer who co-founded the company in 1985 and guided it to national and international acclaim…