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David Robertson

Role: Lighting Design
Affiliations: ODC Dance

David Robertson is a San Francisco based designer. He has worked with many Bay Area companies including the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, Post: Ballet, Opera Parallèle, The Paul Dresher Ensemble, The Magic Theatre, and Word for Word. Recent design credits include: the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s “Skies Calling, Skies Falling”; Post:Ballet’s “Lavender Country”; the Leela Collective’s “Son of the Wind”; and Flyaway Production’s performance of “TENDER” on the exterior of the historic Cadillac Hotel in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district . As ODC Dance’s lighting director since 2003, he has toured with them extensively as well as created a number of original designs, including a new lighting design in 2014 for their holiday classic, “The Velveteen Rabbit” and most recently KT Nelson’s site specific piece “Path of Miracles”.