Bundanon

Tra Mi Dinh is a choreographer and dancer working across Naarm/Melbourne and Eora/Sydney.

Her choreographic credits include Holding (2021), The ___ (2022) commission for the Keir Choreographic Award, And, again (2022) commission for DirtyFeet, (UP)HOLDING (2023), Not the Piece (2023) presented by ReadyMade Works, Somewhere between ten and fourteen (2023) commission for Sydney Dance Company. Her practice has been supported by Lucy Guerin Inc, Temperance Hall, Australian Dance Theatre, ReadyMade Works, Critical Path, March Dance, Ausdance NSW, Tasdance, and Sydney Fringe Festival. In 2022 she won the Keir Choreographic Award for her duet work The ___. 

As a dancer, Tra Mi has worked for artists and companies including Lucy Guerin Inc, Chunky Move, Stephanie Lake Company, Dance Makers Collective, Joel Bray Dance, Michelle Heaven, Victoria Chiu, Siobhan McKenna, and Monica Bill Barnes & Company

Tra Mi’s work as dance artist was recognised with a fellowship from the late Chloe Munro AO in 2022.

In Residence at Bundanon

This residency supports the refinement of my choreographic practice through the development of three works – my solo “Not the Piece”, a duet “And, again”, and a new collaborative quartet.

I’ll spend time reinvestigating/re-embodying “Not the Piece” as I consider its expansion for future adaptations. A final stage development of “And, again” with dancer Mitchell Christie prepares the work for presentation as part of a new double bill “End/Again” with my other award-winning duet “The ___”. Mitchell Christie and I will spend a week with revered dance artists Martin Del Amo, and Sue Healey collaborating on a new intergenerational quartet work.