2026 Choreographers
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.
Adrienne Chan is a choreographer and dancer based in New York City. Blending the language of contemporary ballet with sociological themes and playful, earnest theatricality, her work investigates dance as a narrative medium. Her work has been performed by companies such as the Harvard Ballet Company, the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, and City Ballet of Cleveland. Adrienne is a dancer at the Brooklyn Ballet and an instructor at Chrystie Street Ballet Academy. For her artistic and academic work, Adrienne has received the E. John Busser Scholarship and the Harvard Office for the Arts’ Radcliffe Doris Cohen Levi Prize. She recently graduated from Harvard University, where she studied Sociology and Theater, Dance, and Media. Website: adrienne-chan.com
Lauren Huynh is a second generation Vietnamese-American, born and raised in Plano, Texas. This is her 3rd season with Asian American Ballet Project and her 2nd season as the social media coordinator for AABP. Lauren was a recipient of the Nordan Fine Arts Scholarship at Texas Christian University (TCU) where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. She received scholarships to additionally train in programs with Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, BalletX, Oregon Ballet Theatre, and Joffrey Ballet. Lauren is in her 6th season with Collage Dance Collective and has also danced with Bruce Wood Dance, Regenerative Beings, and Chattanooga Dance Theatre. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, Jacob’s Pillow International Inside/Out Dance Festival, Virginia Arts Festival, and St. Louis’ Spring to Dance Festival. Lauren has performed works by notable choreographers such as George Balanchine, August Bournonville, Crystal Pite, Nacho Duato, Ulysses Dove, Amy Hall Garner, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Jennifer Archibald, among many others who have shaped her into the artist she is today.
Born in Oakland, California’s Chinatown, Michael Lowe was encouraged at an early age to explore the discipline of classical ballet to augment his coordination and strength in athletics. With his first dance lesson, his love for music found a counterpart to his natural agility and he discovered his life’s path. A scholarship student at Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in New York, Lowe joined Oakland Ballet in 1974 and became a vital force in Oakland Ballet’s history as a dancer, choreographer and director.
During his decades-long career with Oakland Ballet, Lowe worked with choreographers including Agnes de Mille, John Butler, Eugene Loring, Leonide Massine, Frederic Franklin, Anna Sokolow, Betsy Erickson, Willam Christensen, Alonzo King and Ronn Guidi. He participated in company’s groundbreaking Americana and Diaghilev era reconstructions, and recreated the role of Beau Gosse for the premiere of Bronislava Nijinska’s Le Train Bleu.
During and after his performing career, Lowe revealed himself to be a gifted choreographer. Over the years he has created a number of striking ballets for Oakland Ballet includingBamboofor which he received the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Best Choreography. As founding Artistic Director of Menlowe Ballet, Lowe choreographed numerous works for his own company and he serves as an integral teacher, coach and choreographer at Menlo Park Academy of Dance.
