[15] After the war, he and Ambrosia separated, and Jaime Sr. opened a barber shop and remarried, going on to have two sons, Glbert and Hiram, with his new wife Tiana.
[8][14] Rogers joined dance companies such as Martha Graham,[14] José Limón,[14] Katherine Dunham, Doris Humphrey, Donald McKayle, Jerome Robbins, and Antony Tudor.
[14] He appeared on Broadway in Golden Boy, Flower Drum Song,[14] Annie Get Your Gun,[19] Finian's Rainbow, Wildcat, Kicks and Co., We Take the Town with Robert Preston,[1] and Bravo Giovanni.
His producing credits included thirty-three episodes of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, Ben Vereen... Comin' at Ya, and The Emmys.
Rogers was a founding director of the Inner City Repertory Dance Company ("ICRDC") along with Donald McKayle and Janet Collins in 1971.
Rogers choreographed other TV series and films including Breakin', Wholly Moses, Caddyshack, and Americathon.
[25] The Los Angeles Times described his style as an "exuberant, modern dance-based combination of geometrically balanced lines, driving rhythms and explosive leaps and turns".
[18][14] Rogers produced numerous Las Vegas acts, working with stars such as Juliet Prowse, Wayne Newton, Rita Moreno, and Joan Rivers.