Tra Mi Dinh
Dancer & Choreographer
Tra Mi Dinh is a freelance dance artist based across Sydney and Melbourne. She is currently a company dancer for both Lucy Guerin Inc and Chunky Move and has worked with a range of incredible artists including Victoria Chiu, Lee Serle, Michelle Heaven, Nithya Nagarajan, and Monica Bill Barnes & Company in works presented at AsiaTopa, MEL&NYC, Melbourne International Arts Festival, and Dance Massive.
In 2019, her performance in “Make your Own World” by Lucy Guerin was recognised with a Green Room Nomination for Best Dancer in 2019. Tra Mi has developed her choreographic work through the support of residencies at Tasdance’s On the Island Program, Sydney Fringe’s Art in Isolation, Critical Path, and March Dance. She premiered her solo work HOLDING, at March Dance in Sydney 2021. Tra Mi has been commissioned to choreograph for the Keir Choreographic Award 2022. Another new work (UP)HOLDING will premiere at Sydney’s Fringe Festival later this year.
Tra Mi studied at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, graduating in 2014 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) and the Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship for Most Outstanding Dancer.
(UP)HOLDING
(UP)HOLDING is a work that struggles to endure itself. Looping over and over, it remains in a flux of repetition and desperation as it tries to surge towards clarity and resolution. (UP)HOLDING offers a space to laugh, scoff, and relate to humans grappling with the tension of their internal and external selves. We struggle along with the performers as they attempt to direct their energy onwards and upwards in the seemingly endless marathon of existence.
Choreography by Tra Mi Dinh
Performed by Zachary Lopez and Tra Mi Dinh
Supported by Sydney Fringe Festival's Art in Isolation Residency.
