Nicaragua 2023
Creator - Director : Tricia Trinh
Trinh spent four months in Nicaragua collaborating with the Ometepe company -Infinity Fire- to develop two new multi-lingual projects:
“Origen de la Diosa Volcánica” [OVG] and “Duality”.
International
| Producer: Dusty Foot Productions
Trinh created, directed and co-produced:
[1] “OVG” - A multi-disciplinary project limelighting the Nahuatl origin of Isla Ometepe
[2] “Duality” - Centering two local transgender artists investigating intersectional identity
| Presenter: Infinity Fire
Both multi-disciplinary projects explored the integration of theatrical text, circus performance [fire spinning, juggling, silk], spoken word, dance theatre and live percussion.
Italy 2024
LaMaMa Umbria: International Director's Symposium
2024, Trinh went in search of different access points to creating theatrical work and the framework of the multidisciplinary process. Selected to participate in LaMaMa ’s International Directors’ Symposium [Spoleto, Umbria, Italy].
Awarded Canada Council for the Arts and British Columbia Arts Council "Professional Development Grant". Throughout 4 weeks, Trinh gained insight on eight culturally diverse creation methodologies; in workshops led by internationally renowned theatre professionals impacting the contemporary landscape of performative arts.
Cultivating future international artistic partnerships:
– Anne Bogart [SITI Company, USA]
– Sergio Blanco [Auto-Fiction Playwright, Paris]
– MOTUS [Devising Ensemble, Italy]
– Stacy Klein, Amrita Ramanan, Barbara Lanciers [Double Edge Theatre, The Public Theatre, USA]
– Ivica Buljan [Theatre of Cruelty, Croatia]
– Dijana Milosevic [DAH Theatre, Serbia]
– Derek Goldman [Georgetown University: Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics]
– Jakub Skrzywanek [Contemporary Theater in Szczecin, Poland]
Trinh collaborated in workshops with a cohort of international stage directors from Singapore, Korea, India, South Africa, United States and Australia.
Workshops Investigated:
- Viewpoints
- Auto-Fiction
- Devising Theatre
- Dance Theatre
- Theatre of Cruelty
- Performance Art
- Animal Study
- Practice of Care
- Political Theatre
- Reconstruction Theatre
Massachusetts 2025
Double Edge Theatre: International Artistic Residency
2025, As a result of LaMaMa, Trinh was invited for an Artistic Residency as a Deviser / Performer with Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA.
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One Week Training Intensive
– Physical + Dance Theatre
– Facilitators: Double Edge Ensemble
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“Bacchae: Hidden Territories”
– Seven Weeks: Devised
Development Workshop
– Director: Stacy Klein
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“Heron’s Flight”
– Nine Weeks: Devising,
Rehearsing, Performing
[Summer Spectacle]
– Director: Jennifer Johnson + Travis Coe
The ensemble based company prioritizes outdoor, site-specific, physical, multidisciplinary performances that travel across a 100 acres of farmland.
Double Edge Theatre has cultivated a specialized training methodology that focuses on rigorous, physical, long-form embodied improvisation in silence or accompanied with recorded or live music.
This methodology is utilized to devise material for their new theatrical works.
China 2026
ACENTRICSPACE: International Artistic Residency
2026, Trinh's latest interdisciplinary work in development has:
– Been selected for an international residency at ACENTRICSPACE in Zhujiajiao, Shanghai, China
– Awarded a Canada Council International Residency Grant. Funding 2 months of research and development between November - December 2026
at Acentricspace Residency
– Residency will culminate in a full length draft and a workshop presentation of a 10-15 minute excerpt at ACENTRICSPACE Gallery
ACENTRICSPACE Artist in Residence Program aims to foster impactful artistic conversations between local and international artists hailing from different creative disciplines. Since the launch of the residency program in 2017, ACENTRICSPACE has hosted over 170 local and international artists.
The residency will culminate in a group exhibition showcasing the works-in-progress developed throughout the residency; presented by the organization in the ACENTRICPSACE Gallery.
The industry invited exhibition offers an opportunity for resident artists to exchange with local artists and
companies in hopes of fostering future international partnerships.
We believe intercultural exchange is immensely impactful for the contemporary landscape of the arts.
ACENTRICSPACE Residency aims to provide a safe, collaborative and inspiring living and working environment for all artists. The residency is open to contemporary artists whose works are based in an eclectic range of mediums. The aim is to encourage artists from different artistic disciplines to engage in conversations on the creative process with fellow artists and researchers from China and around
the world.
Our mission is to host compelling
intersectional artists with an insightful point of view on life/society/existence in hopes of fostering meaningful cultural and artistic exchange.