Victoria Petrovich
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      • Visual Metaphor/Mood Boards
  • 2022
    • Paradise TBD
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    • The Box
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    • SHIV
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  • 2021
    • one in two
    • Stations of the Heart
  • 2020
    • IOT F20 event
    • ¡PRESENTE!
    • Changing Tides 2-Telematic Performance
  • 2019
    • OLIVÉrio
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    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-NVA
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  • 2018
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  • 2017
    • Black Pearl SIngs
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  • 2016
    • Measuring the Dream/IDEAS
    • Il Sogno di Una Notte di Mezza Estate
    • Golda's Balcony
    • La Cage aux Folles
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    • Swarm Cell
  • late 2015
    • The Mapping Games, pt. 2/Soma Lux
    • The Myth Project: Threads, SMA, Mexico
    • Orange Julius
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    • Lilith Workshop/IDEAS
  • 2012-2015
    • Errori!
    • A Weekend with Pablo Picasso-San Diego Repertory/Arizona Theatre Co./San Jose Stage Co./Denver Center
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    • 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
    • John & Jen
    • Telematic Performances >
      • Inspiraling-Telematic Jazz Explorations 2011
      • Jazz TeleMotions-a networked intermedia concert CalIT2
      • Jazz TeleMotions-a networked trio concert
    • In the Wake
    • Long Story Short
  • Other Selected Work
    • Treasure Island
    • Ferdinand the Bull
    • Dreams of Anne Frank
    • The Good Body
    • The Clean House
    • The Last Five Years
    • Passion
    • Corridos Remix
    • Scapin
    • Snow Leopard
    • The Juniper Tree
    • Journey to Corboba
    • Bandido!
    • Cinderella-Cendrillon
    • Passion
    • Dr. Bigscreen
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    • La Dispute
    • Imelda the Musical
    • The Love of the Nightingale
    • Mad Forest
    • Paradise for the Worried
    • Without Colors
    • Taking Flight
    • The Theory of Everything
    • Falling Into the Sky
    • Sister Stories
    • Hearts on Fire
    • El Teatro Campesino >
      • La Pastorela
      • El Fin del Mundo
    • Killer Tomatoes Eat France
    • UCSD MFA designs
  • Selected Costume Sketches
    • Harold's Big Feat
    • Jacob's Room
    • Kaethchen von Heilbronn
    • Latinologues
    • Man of the Flesh
    • Marla's Lunchbox
    • Straight as a Line
  • Special Projects
    • World Peace Mural
    • Murals-Mona Lisa Cafe
    • Tzolk în~Las Desaparecidas
    • El Dia de los Muertos Celebrations
    • The Songs of Beulah Rowley
    • Masks and more
    • Miscellaneous projects
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la pastorela
scenic design
directors: tony curiel, luis valdez, rosa apodaca
el teatro campesino
san juan bautista mission

..."La Pastorela is performed biannually by El Teatro Campesino during the Christmas holidays, alternating with La Virgen del Tepeyac, in the historic Mission of San Juan Bautista, established in 1797.

Pastorelas, or Shepherds Plays, originated in medieval Europe as religious dramas and were later brought to the new world and Alta California by the Spanish missionaries. La Pastorela recreates the long trek of those first pastores to the holy site of the Nativity. This adaptation of La Pastorela was originally created in 1975, under the direction of Luis Valdez, based on a traditional version from San Luis Potosi in Mexico.

​The Lucifer character of Luzbel and his demons attempt to thwart the shepherds from reaching Bethlehem and the Holy Manger. However, in a dynamic clash of good against evil, San Miguel, the Archangel, and an army of angels overpower the demonic powers of Luzbel and the shepherds are at last free to complete their journey." 
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