Tricia Collins

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  Published on: 9/5/2008    Last Visited: 9/6/2008  

  Tricia Collins will be featured in Gravity this weekend....Tricia Collins will be featured in Gravity this weekend....
  
  THIS WEEKEND, Canadian-born actress Tricia Collins will star in Gravity, a one-woman show that interweaves storytelling, myths and facts, at the Learning Resource Centre, UWI, St Augustine, from tomorrow at 8 pm.
  
  Gravity, which is being staged in conjunction with Pickney Productions and Arts-in-Action, tells the story of four women, connected by blood and by forces pulling and pushing them together and apart; and their love for life and each other.
  
  The hugely successful world premiere of Gravity, a theatrical video installation which follows three generational journeys of women from China to Guyana to Canada, took place at Chapel Arts in Vancouver last year.The production is currently touring internationally.
  
  Collins is fresh from a performance at Carifesta in Guyana, where the production received excellent reviews.
  
  "This production is about bringing people together.It's a one woman play about Chinese women in the British Indenture system.It's exciting for me to be able to tell such stories and portray the characters.Gravity will elevate, entertain and excite the audience," Collins told Newsday.A review of Gravity in the Vancouver Sun states, "Tricia Collins wraps herself in a technical tour de force that, happily, transcends mere gimmickry.Gravity is a fascinating hour of theatre blending light, sound, video and more physical elements in a wholly satisfying piece of performance art.
  
  "Directed with a fine eye for detail by Maiko Bae Yamamoto, Collins creates a mystical journey from fragments of her own past.She shifts in and out of different generations, as a great-great grandmother who was kidnapped from China and sold into slavery in Guyana is the first in a line of women who lead to Maya, a young Canadian seeking her roots.
  
  "Cramming herself in a crate as the kidnapped woman or working well with circus silks in symbol-rich scenes set above a waterfall, Collins crafts each of the characters with an ear for their differences — the frightened Chinese woman will lead to a confident, cocky young Guyanese gal and finally to Maya, who hopes to help the South American nation's capital of Georgetown as it sinks into the sea."
  
  Collins, whose work circles around race politics, multimedia elements and fusions of form and culture, is also a writer and the artistic director of Buss Up Shut Productions.Her TV and film credits include The Guard, Luna: Spirit of the Whale, Water Muse for CBC Television, and Reaper.

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  Published on: 3/18/2008    Last Visited: 3/18/2008  

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  Tricia CollinsArtistic Associate
  
  Tricia Collins is an actor, writer and multidisciplinary artist interested in multicultural and politically challenging work.She is an Associate Artist of urban ink productions, a First Nations and multicultural theatre company under the Artistic Direction of playwright Marie Clements.Theatre credits include The Unnatural and Accidental Women at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, hours of water and Women in Fish, Da Big Womb for La Luna Productions and Hunted for urban ink.Tricia co-directed a portion of Other Freds conceived and directed by Kendra Fanconi, is part of an interdisciplinary collective called kitchen and holds a BFA in theatre from Simon Fraser University.

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  Published on: 9/6/2008    Last Visited: 9/6/2008  

  THIS WEEKEND, Canadian-born actress Tricia Collins will star in Gravity, a one-woman show that interweaves storytelling, myths and facts, at the Learning Resource Centre, UWI, St Augustine, from tomorrow at 8 pm.

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  Published on: 3/18/2008    Last Visited: 3/18/2008  

  Tricia CollinsArtistic Associate

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  Published on: 8/24/2008    Last Visited: 8/29/2008  

  The story, according to its writer and performer, Tricia Collins, is a tribute to ,the girl from China and her fore-daughters who strove across time and distance to survive as great women despite their bindings of race, class and love.,
  
  Collins said her purpose for staging the play is not to save the world or right the wrongs of history, but to unite the personal and global.
  
  ,Through individual experience perhaps we will be driven to defy gravity and push ripples outward that may affect the history of our children,, Collins said.

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  Published on: 8/25/2008    Last Visited: 9/20/2008  

  The story according to its writer and performer Tricia Collins is a tribute to the girl from China and her fore-daughters who strove across time and distance to survive as great women despite their bindings of race, class and love.
  
  Collins said her purpose for staging the play is not to save the world or right the wrongs of history, but it is to unite the personal and global.
  
  Through individual experience perhaps we will be driven to defy gravity and push ripples outward that may affect the history of our children, Collins said.

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  Tricia Collins (Narrator)

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  Review: Gravity astounds the senses - Tricia Collins takes the audience on a journey into her past and across two oceans
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  Review: Gravity astounds the senses - Tricia Collins takes the audience on a journey into her past and across two oceans
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  But Tricia Collins is all of this and more. Both she and her self-penned one-woman theatrical show Gravity are "very Vancouver."
  
  Tricia Collins is hapa. Her mother's family came from Guyana, and from China before that. Tricia is an actor, a writer and an amazing performer/story teller. She also does acrobatic work while hanging suspended from cloth draping... and speaking in a lucious juicy Caribbean accent. This is one smart talented agile woman who can capture your attention.... and hold it for a long, long time.Gravity is a multi-media theatrical work based on similarities in her family history. But Collins takes it much much further. While images of knitting or maps are projected onto the wall, Collins tells the multi-generational story of 4 women.
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  It's fitting that I now back in this building where I am attending a theatre work based on the family history of Tricia Collins.
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  Tricia Collins has created a riveting piece of work that interweaves the tale of her mother, her Granny Ling, and her mother before her, who was kidnapped from China and sold in Guyana, after being shipped in a crate across the ocean. We learn about the hopes and dreams of each woman, and how they deal with the challenges that they find themselves in. Collins plays each of the women, as she simultaneously tells stories about them, in an attempt to unravel the mystery that binds them together, while pulling them apart.
  
  Gravity is what creates the dynamic tension as Collins tells her story as she twists around, suspended in the cloth drapes. It is a unique visual device that I am more accustomed to seeing in Chinese acrobatic shows, modern dance or Cirque Du Soleil. Collins moves smoothly, her foot deftly wrapping the cloth around her calves or ankles, or her hands wrapping the cloth into a bundle that becomes a baby as she gently rocks it.
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  watch an interview with Tricia Collins about Gravity http://www.fathomlabshighway.ca/exposure.asp?page id=10&play=1

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  Published on: 7/5/2007    Last Visited: 7/6/2007  

  The Powell Street Festival Society and VIVO Media Arts present an evening of interdisciplinary and experimental performance featuring collaborations between writer Lydia Kwa and composer Jason Sims; multimedia artists Lyndsay Sung and Rafael Tsuchida; interdiscplinary artist Cindy Mochizuki and actor-writer Tricia Collins; and conceptual artists Yuriko Iga and Noel Macul; plus video shorts by Maiko Tanaka, Alison Kobayashi, and Rafael Tsuchida.
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  The Powell Street Festival Society and VIVO Media Arts present an evening of interdisciplinary and experimental performance featuring collaborations between writer Lydia Kwa and composer Jason Sims; multimedia artists Lyndsay Sung and Rafael Tsuchida; interdiscplinary artist Cindy Mochizuki and actor-writer Tricia Collins; and conceptual artists Yuriko Iga and Noel Macul; plus video shorts by Maiko Tanaka, Alison Kobayashi, and Rafael Tsuchida.

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  Published on: 1/29/2007    Last Visited: 4/26/2007  

  Tricia Collins Tricia is a talented actor and writer and is an Associate Artist of urban ink productions.

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