Chezale

Thankful to bloom into Spring with the April issue of Tucson Lifestyle Magazine! 🌻

Get to know me a little with this Q&A feature.

Q&A: Chezale Rodriguez Founder of Diverse Dance Arts and co-founder of ChezSpirit

I was blessed with the opportunity to be a part of a very special project. These stills hold so much power. I'm grateful for the energy that I was able to bring forth.

I've always felt that what makes a great "performance" is being able to tap into an emotion internally...to draw upon our worlds of experience and observation, authentically, which in turn isn't really much of a performance at all.

It's all pretty miraculous, really.

More to come soon...

520 Dance Company Winter Showcase 2025 ✨️

Diverse Dance Arts & Chezale...
'BREAKING THROUGH'

● This interdisciplinary piece represents diverse beings navigating the complexities of the human experience (relations, grief, tragedy...) and refusing to break in the face of adversity. It holds such personal significance and represents a deep unlayering...daringly moving between the past and the present.

Choreography:
Chezale Rodriguez, Alyssa and Austin Twaits

Dancers:
Wade Colwell (narration & media edits)
Precious Davis
Logan Moon Pen*sten
Nicollette "Nickie" Smith
Dianne Tuble
Alyssa Twaits

Thank you to everyone for your beautiful contribution! 🩶🥹🌹

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BREAKING THROUGH: 520 Dance Co. Winter Showcase 2025 520 Dance Company Winter Showcase 2025Diverse Dance Arts & Chezale...'BREAKING THROUGH'● This interdisciplinary piece represents diverse beings navigating th...

Let's keep making space ya'll. ✨️

https://www.diversedancearts.com/

Diverse Dance Arts launched 1 year ago today... with the Breaking Through Workshop Series at Catalyst Creative Collective !! 🎉✨️

I dreamt it up just months before it manifested into a lived reality. I dug deep and reached wide. Thank you to each and every person who helped this come to life and who trusted the process of going on this journey with me.

I'm grateful for the opportunities that have come thus far and I look forward to what lies ahead. Also to the slow, deep and thoughtful intentions that come with growing those seeds. 🌱

Here's to growth and moving out on faith! 🫶🏾
~Chezale

Thank you Celesteal Photography for capturing these beautiful & heartfelt testimonials and to every lovely soul who shared your honest thoughts.

In partnership with Art State Arizona
-- This project was funded in part by Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts , City of Tucson & Pima County.

Breaking Through: Testimonials Hear from some of the beautiful beings that participated in the Breaking Through: Diverse Dance Arts Workshop Series that took place Jan-Feb 2025. Featured (...

So grateful to the University of Arizona's Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and Banner Health for this incredible collaboration and opportunity to share in meaningful movement that will help us all RELEASE. ✨️

Join us for this FREE, mobility-friendly and accessible workshop that introduces the idea of a "movement mantra" in the form of song, and explores identifying what we desire to release while moving towards what we wish to receive in 2026 & beyond....

🗓 Saturday January, 17th
⏰️ 3 - 430pm
📍 Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine

Register Here: https://event.awcim.arizona.edu/inclusive_dance

📣 ChezSpirit & Diverse Dance Arts in collaboration with the world renowned, Heard Museum ‼️✨️

First Friday | The Transformational Power of Movement & Art: Facing the Sun Together ☀️

We're excited to kick off the new year with a FREE evening of community, movement, and creativity!

✨️ During the 'October Art' Exhibit by Ballerina, Artist, Educator & Curator Dolores Browne Abelson.

5-6PM:
Join (Taino) and Wade Antonio Colwell (Rarámuri) in...FACING THE SUN TOGETHER, an interactive offering for participants of all ages and abilities to move, connect, and express their creativity. This collective experience brings a unique cross-disciplinary intersection of music, dance, oral tradition, and multi-media.

♿️ FACING THE SUN TOGETHER will include live captioning and venue is mobility friendly.

🎨 Following FACING THE SUN TOGETHER, guests will be invited to participate in a community art experience facilitated by Storytelling Visual Artist, Tiesha Harrison of . This collaborative project will culminate in a sunflower-themed artwork that explores the ChezSpirit pillars of Hope, Heart, and Healing. 🌻

Closing out the evening, get to know more about our guests during the 'Artist Voice' chat. 🎤

You don’t want to miss this opportunity to engage in personal reflection, creative expression, and connection with the community as you start the new year! 🎉

🗓 January 2, 2026
⏰️ 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
📍The Heard Museum
🎟 FREE Admission

Learn More:
https://heard.org/event/first-friday-jan26/