Pam Gonzales      choreographer, dancer, instructor

Pam's work has been presented at WestWave Dance Festival, REDCAT (Next Dance Co.), DanceNOW NYC's The Raw Festival, ACDFA, Lund Theater,  and Bates Dance Festival Young Choreographers/New Works.  She recently completed a month long residency at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.  Pam also recently participated in The Joyce Theater Foundation's The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2010-2011: Los Angeles as a promising contemporary choreographer selected by a committee of executives from  different presenting venues.  Her duet entitled Flux was selected by a panel of professional judges for the American College Dance Festival regional conference Gala Concert and went on to receive the highest honors from the judges.   Pamela was the choreographer for an evening length interdisciplinary project which was awarded the Cal Arts Interdisciplinary Grant in 2008. She has received commissions to choreograph by California Institute of the Arts for the Cal Arts Winter Dance Festival and by College of the Canyons to choreograph on their College of the Canyons Dance Company.  Pam holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts in Dance Performance, Choreography, and Production where she studied Choreography from Colin Connor, Stephan Koplowitz, Lyndon Branaugh, Tina Yuan,  and Rachel Berman.  She has attended American Dance Festival on scholarship and Bates Dance Festival on full scholarship.  Pamela has danced in works by Alpert award recipient Pat Graney(Faith excerpt at REDCAT), Robert Battle(Bates Repertory Finale), and Yen-Lin Chou(An Unfinished Story). 

"My mission as a choreographer and with "Pam Gonzales-Dance"  is to create artistic contemporary choreography that is thoughtful, intellectual, emotional, satisfyingly physical and innovative.  Thus humbly working to enrich experience and inspire.  The work is the playground for my explorations, inspirations, comments, musicality, embodied concepts, and emotional undercurrents. My work is distinctive for its mood, movement qualities, and experimential nature.  I am increasingly inspired and curious with every new project I embark upon."

photos of Pam Gonzales by Scott Groller(1st-3rd, and 6th photos), Sunlight(4th photo), Minako Naito(5th photo)