Choreography Reel - a selection of short contemporary works
To The Hiding (2024)
Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Music: Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic, Lili Boulanger, Hildur Guonadottir, CRYSTALMESS, Meredith Monk
Dancers: Reagan Arenz, Amelia Bednar, Angelina Carbonaro, Carly Darnell, Alexa Dollar, Alayna Hamade, Elianna Price, Claire Sturgeon, Ava Tellier, Nya Tinio-Mitchell
Miserylieu (part two) (2023)
Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Music: Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son-France Gall; Immigrant Song-Led Zeppelin; Misirlou-The Beach Boys; Madagascar-Drama Cat
Dancers: Celeste Camfield, Katie Hopkins, Clay Moore, Aidan Rodgers, Melissa Sanderson
Ozymandias (2023)
commissioned by Houston Contemporary Dance Company for DUE February 2023
Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Music: Kishi Bashi
Dancers: Tamia Bradford, Lily Brown
Nik Com (2023)
Ballet Austin Academy Spring Performance May 2023 Level 8 Contemporary
Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Music: Nidia
Filipino Suite (2022)
Commissioned by Ballet Austin for Ballet Austin TWO and the Butler Fellowship Program
Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Music: Traditional Filipino Songs - Paul Adrian Moldez, Florante Aguilar, Leopoldo Silos, Francisco Santiago, Jose Corazon De Jesus
so tired (2022)
A piece responding to Philip Evergood’s 1934 painting, Dance Marathon, at Blanton SoundSpace: Conversation Pieces
Performance/Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Film Editing: Jose Lozano, Magic Spoon Productions
The Fabulator (2020)
Concept/Performance/Editing: Alexa Capareda
Filming: Karlo Capareda
Music: Jean Sibelius, Valse Triste
Commissioned by: Performa/Dance for ON FILM
Klein Blue/The Void (2019)
Originally commissioned by Ballet Austin for the Butler Fellowship Program
Inspired by Yves Klein's blue monochromes and the idea of interdimensionality.
Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Sound Mixing: Jordan Moser
PLAY (2019)
Commissioned by Ballet Austin for the Butler Fellowship Program
It's all games.
Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Music: Alexa Capareda via Incredibox
Party Trick (I'm fun at parties) (2019)
Ready Set Go: Solo Salon
The introvert tumult— anxiety, reticence, rallying, exhaustion —externalized, to Saint-Saëns’ robust Danse Macabre.
Performance/Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Music: Camille Saint-Saëns
Swish Swizzle Smack (2019)
Blanton SoundSpace:WordPlay
A part-choreographed, super fun dance piece that plays on onomatopoeia.
Choreography/sound mixing/performance: Alexa Capareda with Kelsey Oliver
Gnosis (2019)
Performa/Dance Live at the UMLAUF
A study on sparseness, gesture, and physicality, keying into the graceful peculiarities of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes.
Choreography: Alexa Capareda with Taryn Lavery
Music: Erik Satie
"Alexa, do the Blue Danube Waltz." (2018)
Barnstorm Dance Festival
A dance inspired by the grandiosity, technicality, and underlying versatility and humor of classical forms, playfully imagined through the increasingly ubiquitous (AI) machine brain.
Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Music: Johann Strauss
Tikling(bird) (2017)
Austin Dance Festival
Tikling(bird) draws from the Philippine folk dance and energetically probes the task of mimicking a bird through a peculiar contemporary ballet vocabulary.
Choreography: Alexa Capareda Music: Tinikling, Sylvia La Torre (Waray Waray) + Tinikling, Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company