"Throughout, Kristie Roldan's evocative lighting helps create moods that swing like pendulums..."
Victoria Looseleaf, LA Times, 06/03/06
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Chosen as one of Entertainment Designs' (now Live Design) 5 Young Designers to Watch for 2005!
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"Rarely has lighting in ODC Theater been as strikingly effective as it was here, thanks to the work of company designer Kristie Roldan. Particularly in slow, sensuous passages, the dancers seemed to be part of a molten energy flow, diffuse shapes rather than three-dimensional beings."
Michael Wade Simpson, SF Cronicle, 8/28/04
"They gazed upward as if guided by a divine light (gorgeously provided by Kristie Roldan)..."
Joyce Nishioka, SF Guardian, 8/4/04-8/10/04
"Here, too, the dancers luxuriated in the sensual, resembling (thanks to wonderful lighting by Kristie Roldan) studies of the sculpturally beautiful human body in Baroque painting."
Ann Murphy, Dance View Times 7/30/04
"Payne's stark staging is bolstered by Dave Beaudry's atmospheric sound effects and Kristie Roldan's superb lighting."
Les Spindle, Frontiers
"Kristie Roldan's lighting is a large plus"
JOEL HIRSCHHORN, DAILY VARIETY – May 25, 2004