Poems Pondering Pools (2026)
Austin Dance Festival 2026
Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Music: Music from the Mountain Provinces (Philippines), Accumangulation - Nathan Patterson, Water Drums - Baka Forest People of Southeast Cameroon, Pan - LVDF
Dancers: Venese Alcantar, Cellise Brown, Celeste Camfield, Taryn Lavery, Jordan Miller, Sarah Annie Navarrete, Melissa Sanderson, Lisa Schreck, TeeDee Simons, Camille Wiltz
Kahimanawari (2024)
Commissioned by SALT Contemporary Dance for LINK 2024
Choreography: Alexa Capareda (in collaboration with the dancers)
Music: Pinikpikan
Cautery (2024)
Commissioned by Performa/Dance for PIVOT
Choreography: Alexa Capareda
Music: Kirill Richter, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, Tom Tykwer
Dancers: Alyssa Manguiat, Arnaldo Hernandez
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