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Canvas Rebel Profile: Meet Alexa Capareda
Arts and Culture Texas feature: Expanding the Classical Ballet Canon
Austin Chronicle: Ballet Austin TWO Launches Fables of the World | Maria and the Mouse Deer
Dance Informa: Maria and the Mouse Deer
KUT Arts Eclectic radio feature: Maria and the Mouse Deer
Sightlines Review: Gentle our Driftless Caravan
"...an exceptional new dance work choreographed by BLiPSWiTCH (Taryn Lavery and Alex Miller) and Alexa Capareda [...] spectacular and meditative, intimate and grand — triumphantly full of contradictions that work."
CTX Live Theatre Review: Gentle our Driftless Caravan
“Alexa Capareda put a powerful stamp on the choreography, performing it with ease and expressiveness. Anyone who has seen her on the dance stage more than once quickly recognizes it [...] Capareda's movements and immense stage presence seemed to express a sorrow demanding recognition.”
CTX Live Theatre Review: Performa/Dance's The Mad Scene
“The hands-down star of the show is Alexa Capareda. Her discipline is such that she applied exquisite technique to every pacing run across the stage, the height and leap of every step the same until exit. This was true of her every other gesture and movement. At the same time, her comedic sense is impeccable, adding a very dry-vermouth sense to her comedy.”
Reporting Texas feature article: Capareda's Long, Winding Road to Ballet Austin
Art Papers review: "Alexa..._________" at Fusebox Festival: Virtual Edition 2020
“Alexa Capareda’s performance Alexa…_______ begged the audience to tell her what to do, in a kind of techno-quarantine desperation. Through her acquiescence, she collaborated in readings of “How Doth the Little Crocodile” by Lewis Carroll, and movement-based interpretations of requested Tik Tok challenges and sophisticated finger dances. She paused to weep and questioned the meaning of life with a put-on monotone that was nevertheless tragically human in the midst of quarantine confinement.”
Texas Monthly review: "Alexa..._________" at Fusebox Festival: Virtual Edition
“A few of these “shows” felt pitch-perfect for the current social distancing moment, speaking to our cloistered and anxious lives under COVID-19 shutdown. For instance, Alexa Capareda’s solo piece Alexa… featured the performer, a ballet master, as an embodiment of the Amazon artificial intelligence of the same name. Wearing a futuristic gray skullcap, black clothing, and blue lipstick, Capareda acted the automaton as audience members were invited to ask her questions and give her instructions, with results ranging from “Swiffer the floor with your head” to “Dance the dying swan.” Flitting around a too-small enclosure, performing lonely physical acts both absurd and sublime, Capareda spoke not only to the undertone of captivity in the voice of technology circa 2020, but also to our present digitally abetted confinement.”
Concept Animals feature article - "Alexa...________" at Fusebox Festival: Virtual Edition
KUTX Eklektikos Radio interview - Blanton SoundSpace: Not Bad Muzak (with Steve Parker)
Austin Chronicle Best of Austin 2019: Frank Wo/Men Collective
Sightlines Magazine feature: Frank Wo/Men Collective
Austin American-Statesman review: Frank Wo/Men Collective’s Rub A Duck
Austin Arts Watch review: Frank Wo/Men Collective’s Rub A Duck
Austin Chronicle review: Frank Wo/Men Collective’s Rub A Duck
Austin Chronicle review: Performa/Dance – Live at the UMLAUF: Confections
Sightlines Magazine review: LOLA Austin’s Lardo Weeping
--"Dinah’s soulful homage to the dodo bird is expressively realized by dancer Alexa Capareda." --
CTX Live Theatre review: LOLA Austin’s Lardo Weeping
--"Perhaps that's why Galloway wrote in "The Dance of the Dodo," a theatrical gem toward the end of the performance performed exquisitely by Alexa Capareda." --
Arts and Culture TX feature: Frank Wo/Men Collective
Austin Critics Table Awards Nominations 2018-2019
Nominee Dance Concert: Performa/Dance’s Artist and Muse
Nominee Dance Ensemble: Frank Wo/Men Collective in “Rick Said So”
Art Profiler review: Austin Dance Festival, Alexa Capareda's “Klein Blue/The Void”
--"the piece had all of Capareda’s quirky brilliance and precision of movement." --
Arts and Culture Texas feature: Texas Dance Festivals
Barnstorm Dance Festival preview: Alexa Capareda’s “Alexa, do the Blue Danube Waltz.”
Austin Critics Table Awards Nominations 2017-2018
Nominee Costume Design: Emily Cawood, Alexa Capareda’s “Klein Blue/The Void”
Nominee Lighting Design: Steven Myers, Alexa Capareda’s “Klein Blue/The Void”
Nominee Dance Concert: Performa Dance’s Midsummer Offerings
Nominee Dancer: Alexa Capareda, Diet Fizz Radio/“Overseas Phone Call, 1987”/“In Here”
Nominee Dance Ensemble: “Fellow Travelers,” Performa/Dance
Austin Chronicle review: Fusebox Festival – Magdalena Jarkowiec’s “In Here”
-- "Capareda and Oliver are a pair you shouldn’t miss. As Care Bear versions of our domestic selves, they were absurd and adorable, and as the performance progressed, their virtuosity went on display, with flying jumps and body slams to the crescendos of a ballet finale. They were also often hilarious, so while free tickets are limited (there were a few left at the time of this writing), this performance is one to chance the walk-up on." --
Dance Teacher Magazine article: "Treat Your Feet"
Jonelle Seitz’s Top 10 Thrills in Dance of 2017
Jennifer Sherburn’s 11:11; Frank Wo/Men Collective’s Loose Gravel; Magdalena Jarkowiec’s “Overseas Phone Call, 1987”
Robert Faires’ Top 10 Dance and Classical Treasures of 2017
Performa Dance’s Midsummer Offerings; Jennifer Sherburn’s 11:11
Austin Chronicle review: Performa/Dance – Midsummer Offerings
Jennifer Hart’s “Fellow Travelers”; Magdalena Jarkowiec’s “Overseas Phone Call, 1987.”
Austin Critics Table Awards 2016-2017
Winner: Alexa Capareda, Dancer
Austin Critics Table Awards Nominations 2016-2017
Nominee Dancer: Alexa Capareda
Austin Chronicle review: Austin Dance Festival – Alexa Capareda’s “Tikling(bird)”
-- "Later, "Tikling(bird)," choreographed and danced by Alexa Capareda, nodded to the traditional Tinikling dance of the Philippines, in which dancers hop, imitative of the region's tikling bird, between a pair of bamboo poles that are rhythmically slapped together (sort of like double-dutch, but more dangerous). Capareda left out the poles and instead embodied the bird itself, using her abundant comic talents as, in a cheerful yellow dress and neckerchief, she flipped her bangs and preened for the audience. As rich as it was hilarious, the dance crowned Capareda a virtuoso of bird dances, drawing not just from the Tinikling but also from the canary and bluebird of Sleeping Beauty, as well as "The Dying Swan" (and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo's famous parody of it) to create a fragile, ridiculous, fully realized creature." --
Fjord Review review: Frank Wo/Men Collective’s Loose Gravel
Broadway World review: Frank Wo/Men Collective’s Loose Gravel
Arts + Culture TX feature: ARCOS Dance’s DOMAIN
Austin Chronicle review: ARCOS Dance’s The Warriors: A Love Story
-- "As we heard Ursula recalling how her city was reduced to ashes, the exquisite Alexa Capareda, in a long A-line dress (costumes by Uhlemann and Bobby Moffett), allowed one flexed foot to float upward as though tied to a balloon, her body twisting away from it." --
Austin Chronicle review: Blanton SoundSpace: Refugees
Houston Press review: Barnstorm Fest – ARCOS Dance’s “She, Extracted.”
-- "Austin’s ARCOS Dance also gave reason to sit up and pay attention to the out-of-town visitors. Using projections to create a brooding sense of interior reflection, She, Extracted. saw some interesting and clever partnering work by the trio of Alexa Capareda, Erica Gionfriddo, and Felicia McBride. Their movement quality was captivating to watch, all fluid motion from one skill to the next..." --
