Alexa Capareda is a Filipina-American sugar-powered noodle robot who collaborates with dance, theatre, sound, and visual artists in Austin as an independent artist and choreographer. She is a rehearsal director for Ballet Austin TWO and the Butler Fellowship Program, resident faculty at the Ballet Austin Academy, Co-Director of Performa/Dance, and Co-Producer of Dance Carousel.  She has worked with BLiPSWiTCH, Red Nightfall Dance Theatre, Early Era Collective, Austin Playhouse, 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 prize winner 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.