ABOUT TRA MI DINH

Tra Mi Dinh is an award-winning choreographer and dancer working across Naarm (Melbourne) and Gadigal (Sydney). She is emerging as a distinct artist in Dance, working as a performer in multiple works by Lucy Guerin Inc, and Stephanie Lake Company, as well as Chunky Move, Joel Bray Dance, Michelle Heaven, Dance Makers Collective, and more; whilst also establishing her own choreographic voice. 

Tra Mi’s first major choreographic commission ‘The ___’ was awarded the prestigious Keir Choreographic Award in 2022. In 2023, Sydney Dance Company commissioned her for New Breed, where she made ‘Somewhere between ten and fourteen’. In November 2024, Tra Mi will premiere a new work commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc for their Pieces 2024 program. Her other choreographic credits include HOLDING (2021), And, again (2022), (UP)HOLDING (2023), Not the Piece (2023). Her choreographic work is driven by an unrelenting fascination with time; harnessing the dancing body to magnify and disrupt our experience of linearity, tension, and expectation. Her work is often centred around how we relate to time; questioning the ways in which we frame particular moments and experiences – endings, beginnings, waiting, enduring, advancing, and transforming.  

Tra Mi’s choreographic practice has been nurtured with residencies at Bundanon, Australian Dance Theatre, Critical Path, Lucy Guerin Inc, DirtyFeet, ReadyMade Works, Tasdance, Sydney Fringe, March Dance, and Ausdance NSW. Currently, Tra Mi is an Artist in Residence at The Substation.