Alexa Capareda received her early training in classical ballet and contemporary dance at the Philippine High School for the Arts in her native Philippines. After moving to Texas, she trained professionally at Ballet Austin. She continued her studies in Canada at Ecole Superieure de Ballet Contemporain de Montreal before joining Mario Radacovsky’s Balet Bratislava in Slovakia, where she had the privilege of performing Jiri Kylian’s Falling Angels and Six Dances. She began exploring her own choreography before leaving Europe, winning 3rd prize at the 2013 Festival of Choreographic Miniatures in Serbia.
Alexa joined Ballet Austin’s artistic staff and Academy faculty in 2015. As Rehearsal Director for Ballet Austin TWO and the Butler Fellows, she has restaged ballets by Stephen Mills, Nelly van Bommel, Nick Kepley, Thang Dao, and Jimmy Orrante for Ballet Austin TWO, has assisted guest choreographers Alexander Anderson and Joshua Manculich with their commissioned works, and has created original pieces for BA2 and the Butler Fellowship Program. Maria and the Mouse Deer, her new ballet for BA2 based on Philippine folk stories, was awarded a Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts and received seven B. Iden Payne nominations.
Alexa is an artist and Assistant Director with Jennifer Hart's Performa/Dance. She has co-produced and performed with Frank Wo/Men Collective and has worked with ARCOS, BLiPSWiTCH, Jennifer Sherburn, and Magdalena Jarkowiec. Her work has been featured in collaborations with sound artists/musicians Steve Parker, Brent Baldwin, Henna Chou, Lynn Lane’s Transitory Sound and Movement Collective, Austin Camerata, LOLA Austin, VAMP, and visual artists Essentials Creative, Tom Suhler, Sarah Annie Navarrete, Susan Scafati, and Joi Conti. She has been commissioned by SALT Contemporary Dance (Salt Lake City, UT), Houston Contemporary, tbd. dance collective (Omaha, NE), Columbia Repertory Ballet, BHumn Arts Ensemble, and ZACH Theatre, and has presented work at the Blanton Museum, Big Medium, Austin Dance Festival, Barnstorm Dance Festival, and Fusebox Festival.
Alexa recently had her acting debut in Salvage Vanguard Theater’s Decapitations and has a growing interest in expanding her skillsets within the greater creative industry. She has also assisted several arts entities with marketing and social media.
In 2017, Alexa received an Austin Critics Table Award for Excellence as a Dancer. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English (with High Honors), and a minor in Theater and Dance from the University of Texas at Austin.
Short bio:
Alexa Capareda is a sugar-powered dancemaking noodle robot who engages in virtuosity, versatility, and the earnest and playful. She trained in her native Philippines, Austin, and Montreal before joining Balet Bratislava in Slovakia. Her choreography has been commissioned by SALT Dance, Ballet Austin, tbd. dance collective, Houston Contemporary, Columbia Repertory Ballet, and ZACH Theatre. She has presented work at Big Medium, Austin Dance Festival, Barnstorm Dance Festival, and Fusebox Festival. She is Rehearsal Director of Ballet Austin TWO, Assistant Director with Performa/Dance, and has made work with BLiPSWiTCH, Frank Wo/Men, Salvage Vanguard Theater, ARCOS, Magdalena Jarkowiec, Jennifer Sherburn, Austin Camerata, and LOLA Austin. She has collaborated with sound artists Steve Parker, Brent Baldwin, VAMP, and Henna Chou, and visual artists Essentials Creative, Tom Suhler, and Susan Scafati. She was a prizewinner at the 2013 Festival of Choreographic Miniatures in Serbia and recipient of the 2017 Austin Critics Table Award for Excellence as Dancer. She has a BA English, minor in Theater and Dance from UT-Austin.