From recent reviews:
"Aura", a ravishing collaboration between Los Angeles-based Rosanna Gamson/World Wide and Mexico City's Contradanza, turned a Carlos Fuentes short story into an erotic fever dream that merged dance, theater, music and literature.”
Brett Campbell, The Wall Street Journal
"Choreographer Rosanna Gamson's lyrical, thought-provoking dance-theater piece... employs these remote writings to explore love and war, the battles of the sexes and the presumably deadlier battles of military combat. She does so with an almost ineffable flair for fusion. ...
Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune
"The works of Los Angeles-based choreographer Rosanna Gamson are PhD treatises in movement... Gamson is blessed with dancers who look like real people... They all have the ability to convey deep meaning with their bodies."
Paula Citron, Toronto Globe & Mail
"Desire, heartbreak and Freud's theory of hysteria share the stage with divine dancing in Rosanna Gamson / World Wide's "Lovesickness"... This two-act, evening-length work is dance-theater at its best – a deft combination of text, original score and film, propelled by nearly nonstop dancing.... The integrity of Gamson's vision and the impeccable focus of a dream cast give "Lovesickness" a visceral intelligence that soaks into one's skin."
Janice Steinberg, San Diego Union-Tribune
"In Rita Goes to Hell, Rosanna Gamson creates Jungian dance theater from the concept that our deepest human drives and needs represent a kind of underworld: a realm of conflict and desire populated by powerful personifications... impressive... starting with Gamson's forceful rock choreography...”
Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times
"Like its ambiguous appellation, the work itself, for which Gamson just won two Horton Awards, Grand Hope Flower brims with cryptic layers of terse observation and wit. Gamson weaves retold fairy tales, theories on the nature of the universe and...human interaction into an epigram on contemporary L.A."
Ann Haskins, L.A. Weekly
“By the end of Rosanna Gamson’s major work Grand Hope Flower, the mental light-bulbs are popping on and off ...and this crazy, rare feeling-- ‘I understand the meaning of life!’ -- percolates to the surface. ...Gamson has accomplished something serious ...she has a purpose beyond herself, a choreographic design that supports her humanistic world-view... .New York’s loss is our gain.”
Sasha Anawalt, L.A. Weekly
“In Rosanna Gamson’s Grand Hope Flower, the choreographer has constructed a dance-theater epic that ultimately reveals an authoritative, postmodern portrait of her adopted city, Los Angeles. Her voice is original, compelling and necessary in today’s strange world, where truth is sometimes hard to find.”
Victoria Looseleaf, Los Angeles Times