ROSANNA GAMSON / WORLD WIDE · LOS ANGELES
KEEP OUR CREATIVE COMMUNITY MOVING.
RGWW brings artists and audiences together around the questions we share: how we remember, how we care for one another, and how we imagine a different future.
Your support sustains original dance-theater, movement workshops and a creative community rooted in Los Angeles.
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ART NEEDS A COMMUNITY.
Before a performance reaches an audience, artists need paid time to explore, collaborators to work alongside, and a place to rehearse. That shared creative life cannot be sustained by ticket sales and uncertain grants alone.
Your gift helps RGWW keep that work moving—from Our Fragile Eternity to workshops and artist development. Monthly support helps us plan beyond a single project and sustain the people who make the work possible. One-time gifts matter, too.
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Every amount contributes to the same shared work: paying artists, making space to rehearse and sustaining creative exchange. Choose monthly or one-time giving below.
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ROSANNA GAMSON - WORLD WIDE
Mailing address: 343 Laveta Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90026
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MEET ROSANNA
Rosanna Gamson brings decades of experience as a choreographer, performer, educator and mentor to Los Angeles. She earned her BFA and MFA in Dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, studied with Hanya Holm, Bessie Schonberg and Phyllis Lamhut, and performed internationally with Andrew DeGroat & Dancers and in works by Yvonne Rainer.
Since 1998, RGWW has shared her dance-theater with audiences in Los Angeles and internationally. Her works include AURA, STILL/RESTLESS and SUGAR HOUSES, which premiered at REDCAT in 2021 with National Dance Project support.
Her teaching and leadership at CalArts, GO improvisation practice and Terra Nova mentorship extend that legacy to other artists. Across these roles, she makes space for different perspectives to meet—and for artists to develop voices of their own. More about RGWW →
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Our Fragile Eternity is RGWW’s new dance-theater work, premiering with CAP UCLA in late 2027. Movement, spoken text, sound and projected imagery explore memory, spiritualism and our responsibility to one another.
Making this work takes more than a performance date. It takes research, paid rehearsal time and sustained collaboration among artists. Your support carries that process of discovery toward the premiere, as part of RGWW’s wider commitment to performances, workshops and artist development in Los Angeles.
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Terra Nova is RGWW’s choreographic residency and artist incubator, mentored by Rosanna Gamson. It gives Los Angeles artists room to experiment, strengthen their artistic voices and develop new work in dialogue with peers.
In 2024, three artists took part in a six-week residency culminating in a public performance. Established choreographers, presenters and funders advised them during the process and joined a public conversation after the showing.
This is RGWW’s commitment beyond its own productions: investing in other artists and the relationships that sustain Los Angeles dance. Community support helps that wider creative life continue.
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GO is Rosanna’s improvisation system for all bodies. Its games invite performers to respond in the moment, move beyond self-criticism and discover new possibilities together.
Since 2017, RGWW has taught GO to dancers, actors, directors, choreographers and circus artists. Workshops connect the company’s creative practice with a wider community, giving participants tools they can bring into their own work.
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Original work develops over months, not just on performance night. Reliable monthly support helps RGWW plan paid rehearsal time, sustain creative partnerships and carry Our Fragile Eternity toward its late-2027 premiere with CAP UCLA. It also supports workshops and artist development between projects.
A monthly gift joins a community invested in the work’s future. At $10 a month, you contribute $120 over a year; $25 becomes $300; $50 becomes $600. One-time gifts are welcome and support the same work.
As this community grows, so does the foundation for lasting creative exchange. Member perks and merchandise are coming soon—we’ll share the details as they are ready.
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Your gift helps turn an idea into something we can experience together. Behind every RGWW performance are artists at work, a studio to gather in and time to try something new.
Here are a few of the costs that make that possible:
$44 provides one hour of rehearsal space.
$1,000 provides an artist residency stipend for developing new work.
From the first rehearsal of Our Fragile Eternity to an artist finding their next direction, your support gives creativity time and room to grow.
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Dance depends on people having time to work together. When a dancer has to leave the field or a company can no longer afford rehearsal space, we lose more than a performance. We lose experience, relationships and possibilities that took years to build.
RGWW’s place in that community is specific: dance-theater that brings different perspectives into dialogue, GO’s practice of discovering together, and Terra Nova’s mentorship of other Los Angeles artists. Your gift sustains both the work audiences see and the people and relationships behind it.
The funding that makes this possible is becoming harder to count on. By May 2025, researchers tracking federal grant cancellations had documented 526 canceled or withdrawn NEA awards worth $26.8 million. NEFA’s National Dance Project—a source of support for RGWW’s own work—is holding its final Production Grant cycle in 2026 after three decades. Here in Los Angeles County, Community Impact Arts Grants lost a third of their funding for 2025–26. These losses put more pressure on artists to do without pay, postpone work or stop making it. Community support helps us keep paying dancers, gathering in the studio and sharing what we create. We want that future for RGWW and for the artists growing alongside us.
OUR FRAGILE ETERNITY
A new dance-theater work in development
Premiering with CAP UCLA in late 2027
What would we ask the past if it could answer—and what do we owe the people who come after us?
In Our Fragile Eternity, Rosanna Gamson invites us into a world of ghosts, angels and unexpected humor. Dancers, a narrator, sound and shifting projections bring fragments of memory to life. A tiny goldfish slips out of its bowl and grows enormous. Handwritten letters, coffee stains and everyday lists become traces of lives we can almost reach.
Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s writings and Paul Klee’s angels, the work pairs the old desire to speak with the dead with our very modern faith in technology. As illusions change what we see, a familiar question comes into focus: does having more information help us understand one another—or leave us further apart?
At its heart is tikkun olam, the Jewish call to repair the world. Through moments of wonder, unease and connection, the piece asks how we resist intolerance, care for one another and take responsibility for the future we share.
Now in development for its late-2027 premiere with CAP UCLA, Our Fragile Eternity grows through the imagination and skill of its dancers and creative team. Your support helps give them the rehearsal time and resources to bring this world to the stage.