
Esteban Rosales
is a multidisciplinary performance artist from Phoenix, Arizona. He is a descendant of Mesoamerican ancestry, and an artivist of the LGBTQ+ community. Infatuated by his high school's dance team during a freshman pep-rally at fourteen, his existence is forever influenced by the form. He completed a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Dance at Arizona State University, where he'd further cultivate his passion for dance as a profound art.
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The foundation of his performance training consists of studio-oriented hip-hop. He refined this movement practice at ASU; training in forms such as locking, vogue femme, house, and popping. During his final four semesters, he expanded his practice towards Postmodern Contemporary techniques, Classical Ballet, and Commercial Jazz - which were far less familiar to him at the time. He self-identifies as the spitting image of the jack of all trades: master of none. Nonetheless, he finds peace playing the jack of all trades, than the master of one. As of 2025, he is performing with Safos Dance Theatre, the Charlie's Show Dancers, and The Pachanga Collective; a collective of 6 dance makers in Arizona, which he co-founded with Ruby Morales, and Zakiya Rose Johnson.
As a visionary, a creator, a dance-maker, he values abstraction as much as the glitz of performance - drawing inspiration from existential nihilism, glamour, and absurdity. Within Arizona, his work has been showcased for the Phoenix Blaktinx Dance Festival, Ten Tiny Dances at Taliesin West, nueBOX's SEED Residency, Breaking Ground, and the Third Space Dance Project. He made his official out-of-state debut at Disco Riot's 2024 Queer Movement Fest in San Diego, California.
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is also a professional lighting board operator, designer, and electrician. Learning the basics during his time at ASU, he furthered his growth working at Tempe Center for the Arts, Arizona Theatre Company, Southwest Ballet Theatre, and Phoenix Center for the Arts. Although lighting is his primary passion within technical theatre, he is also well versed in stage managing, audio/visual, costume design, and fly rails. You can count on seeing something a little extra in his own works as a result.
He is forever grateful to his mentors Mary Fitzgerald, Eileen Standley, Nicole Bradley Browning, Liz Lerman, Melissa Britt, and Carolyn Koch, for helping him cultivate his earliest artistic voice, and preparing him for his career.