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"The WestWave Dance Festival came in tides this year. As in past years, multiple choreographers share the bill, most of them local. Among those presenting work this month are emerging choreographers Pam Gonzales and..."

Dance Magazine, December 2010 issue.  Contributing Writer: Kina Poon.

"The REDCAT show attracted 41 Los Angeles-based applicants, and the selected 12 contestants encompass a particularly wide range of career experience, with some just out of school and others with lucrative international bookings under their belts.....The choreographers and dancers participating in the "A.W.A.R.D. Show!" at REDCAT include,..Pam Gonzales, ..Yuliya Romanskaya..."

Los Angeles Times, January 13th, 2011.  By Susan Josephs, Special to the Los Angeles Times.

“Pamela Gonzales, has successfully graduated from Cal Arts, started her own dance company; has toured the state and recently with her company, competed in an awards show at the REDCAT Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.”

Cougar News, May 17th, 2011.  "Living Among The Stars" by Cougar News Contributer: Magy Louis.

"A Contingent flew out to Minneapolis in March for the American College Dance Festival Association regional conference -and won rave reviews for their work there.  Twenty schools took part in the get-together, presenting a total of 34 choreographic works.  From these, nine were selected by a panel of professional judges for the Gala Concert on the conference's final evening.  CalArts submitted two pieces: .... a duet by Pamela Gonzales entitled Flux.  Both dances not only made the final gala but went on to receive the highest honors from the judges." 

CALARTS The Magazine of California Institute of the Arts, Spring/Summer 2009 edition.  Editorial by  Stuart I. Frolick and Freddie Sharmini.

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"Pam Gonzales is an incredibly talented Los Angeles based choreographer. Her work is beautifully smart and satisfying"

-Freya Sargent, Toronto-based Dancer/Choreographer

"Pamela finds whole extended events in simple movements, gestures or interactions.  There is a freshness that is never glib, an intuitive emotional life that avoids sentimentality, and a light quirky quality that is neither indulgent nor superficial.  I admire her ability to stay with an idea long enough for it to create its own atmosphere, but still manage to keep it evolving. The work that she makes gives me hope.  She has a kind of light bravery in her approach to art-making. This seems to me to be something essential for making dance in our time."

-Colin Connor, Choreographer

"Pam not only fulfilled my expectations, she exceeded them artistically. And I also found her to be one of the most professional young artists I have worked with over the years. She seems to have a real talent for administration and production as well as artistic composition, and that is a rare package indeed."

-Joan Lazarus,  Executive Director, DanceArt

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photo: Scott Groller

photo: Ringo H.W. Chiu / for the Los Angeles Times

photo: Arthur Fink