Victoria Petrovich
  • Home
  • 2020
    • IOT F20 event
    • Changing Tides 2-Telematic Performance
  • 2019
    • OLIVÉrio
    • El Cimarrón
    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-NVA
    • Hurricane
  • 2018
    • Sacco e Vanzetti
    • Telematics Concert
    • Frederick
    • Bliss! Or Emily Post is Dead
  • 2017
    • Black Pearl SIngs
    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso
    • The Witches
    • Twisted Apples-Stories from Winesburg, Ohio
    • Blue Door
  • 2016
    • Measuring the Dream/IDEAS
    • Il Sogno di Una Notte di Mezza Estate
    • Golda's Balcony
    • La Cage aux Folles
    • The Fantasticks
    • Swarm Cell
  • late 2015
    • The Mapping Games, pt. 2/Soma Lux
    • The Myth Project: Threads, SMA, Mexico
    • Orange Julius
    • The Myth Project-Threads-Blurred Borders Dance Festival-Threads
    • Lilith Workshop/IDEAS
  • 2012-2015
    • Errori!
    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-San Diego Repertory/Arizona Theatre Co./San Jose Stage Co./Denver Center
    • Detroit
    • Se Llama Cristina
    • Ordinary Days
    • Steal Heaven
    • Federal Jazz Project
    • Lear On the Second Floor*
    • Alladin's Luck*
    • A Hammer, A Bell, And A Song to Sing-PREMIERE
  • 2010-2012
    • A Wrinkle In Time
    • Joan of Arc
    • Before the Revolution
    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso >
      • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-San Diego Repertory Theatre workshop
      • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-Premiere-The Alley Theatre
      • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-Los Angeles Theatre Center LATC
      • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-Center Repertory Theatre
    • A Man, His Wife, and His Hat
    • In the Next Room
    • The Who's TOMMY
    • Telematic Performances >
      • Inspiraling-Telematic Jazz Explorations 2011
      • Jazz TeleMotions-a networked intermedia concert CalIT2
      • Jazz TeleMotions-a networked trio concert
  • Other Selected Work
    • Treasure Island
    • Ferdinand the Bull
    • Dreams of Anne Frank
    • The Good Body
    • The Clean House
    • The Last Five Years
    • Corridos Remix
    • Scapin
    • Snow Leopard
    • The Juniper Tree
    • Journey to Corboba
    • Cinderella-Cendrillon
    • Dr. Bigscreen
    • The Women
    • La Dispute
    • Imelda the Musical
    • The Love of the Nightingale
    • Mad Forest
    • Without Colors
    • Taking Flight
    • The Theory of Everything
    • Falling Into the Sky
    • La Pastorela
  • Contact

Falling Into the Sky

Scenic & Projection Design (FP/RP)
Director-W. Kamau Bell
Lighting Jose Lopez
East West Players

Bobby Nakamoto's one-man play, Voice Lessons, directed by W. Kamau Bell, is an autobiographical exploration of his "road less traveled"--the road of claiming music--after more than a decade in a "respectable" profession as a school psychologist--as his true passion and life's calling. Through story-based theatre and live musical performance, Nakamoto renders his struggle to confront personal, familial and cultural voices in order to finally hear his own. A saxophonist for 25 years, Nakamoto's musicianship has been influenced and informed by jazz, R&B, Latin and world music genres. While Bobby Nakamoto's Voice Lessons explores a road less traveled, Tani Nakamoto's newest dance theatre work, Psalms for Endangered Species, directed by Jessica Wolf, excavates roads already set forth in Nikkei (Japanese American) history, digging for transformation beneath the surface of the everyday, and giving form to stories not yet commonly shared in the Nikkei diaspora. Tani Nakamoto is a native of the Crenshaw community, and her movement-based work has been described as "transparent" and "mature" by postmodern dance pioneer Anna Halprin. Falling Into the Sky closes with a collaborative saxophone-and-dance homage to the beauty, courage and depth of Nikkei experience across generations.