Rosa Rodríguez-Frazier is an educator, dance-maker, and performing artist based in Riverside, California. As a first-generation Mexican American woman artist, she values “movement” as a means to wrestle with and rejoice in her Mexicanidad. Her movement aesthetic and choreographic interests are rooted in a mix of soulful Contemporary and Latin social dance forms approached by “experimental” dance-making processes and Post-Modern frameworks. Frazier utilizes movement as a physical practice to create avenues for joy, well-being, community cultivation, and resistance, when needed.

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Frazier is an Associate Professor of Dance at Riverside City College. She holds a BA in Dance and an MFA in Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside, a California Teaching Credential for Single Subject Education from the University of Redlands, and a Career Technical Education Credential in Arts, Media, and Entertainment from California State University, San Bernardino.

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Alongside Alfonso Cervera, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez and Patricia "Patty" Huerta, she is one of the founders and artistic collaborators of Primera Generación Dance Collective, a collaborative group of four first-generation artists that ground their work in rasquache play and resourceful-ness, generating art that speaks to their brown, working-class experiences. Frazier is a board member of Show Box L.A., a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, CA; and board member of the Latina Dance Project, a cultural non-profit corporation- originators of the BlakTinx Dance Festival.

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During her early years of training and performing, Frazier had the privilege to work under the direction of numerous artists, a few of which include: Ann Carlson, Gerald Casel, Mark Haines, Kelli King, Anthony Loa, Jose Luis Reynoso, Nicole S. Robinson, Wendy Rogers, Sue Roginski, Susan Rose, Liz Casebolt, and Joel Smith (California, U.S.); Eugenia Estevez, Edgardo Mercado, Margarita Molfino and Gabriela Prado (Buenos Aires, Argentina); and Lux Boreal Danza Contemporánea (Tijuana BC, Mexico). During the spring of 2015, and in partial fulfillment of her MFA thesis at UCR, Frazier produced and directed Border Ocurrencias / “Occurrences” Fronterizas- four evening performances that engaged with ideas on the formation of Mexican American identity and its circulation between Southern California and Northern Mexico. Throughout Frazier’s artistic trajectory, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with other artists outside her field including Aram Adajian (digital music composer), Gabe Hartman, Robert Fraley, Ernesto Rodelo, Emmanuel Soriano, Daniel Hill (musicians), Katherine Guillen, Leo Rivas (visual artists). 

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With over twenty years of experience making dances and performing, Frazier has collaborated on work with artists including long-time dance partner, Joey Navarrete-Medina, counterpoint/shift under the direction of Sue Roginski, and Primera Generación Dance Collective. She has presented work at The Bootleg Theater, REDCAT, Brockus Project Studio, Highways Performance Space, American Dance Festival hosted at Cal State Long Beach, homeLA, Pieter Space, we live in space, Urban Press Winery, ARC, Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, California); Back to the Grind Coffee House, Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside Municipal Auditorium, University of California, Riverside, Riverside City College, Riverside Arts Museum, The Box (Riverside, California); Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco Mission Dance Theater, and Kunst-Stoff-arts (Northern California); Zuzi! Theater, The Black Theater Troupe, Herberger Theatre Centre  (Arizona); CEART Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tia Juana Tilly’s Restaurant (Tijuana, Mexico); Kapezio and Plaza Tutuli Obregón (Sonora, Mexico); Auditorio de la Universidad de la Americas, Puebla (Cholula, Mexico); Reserva de la Biósfera Santuario Mariposa Monarca (Michoacan, Mexico), Ohio State University (Ohio); Dance Place (Washington DC); and University of Wisconsin- Whitewater (Wisconsin).