Tra Mi Dinh is an award-winning choreographer and dancer working across Naarm/Melbourne and Gadigal/Sydney. Her choreographic work is built upon an unrelenting fascination with time; harnessing the dancing body to magnify and disrupt linearity and expectation. Tra Mi is invested in movement that is virtuosic, precise, absurd, embodied, surprising, energetic, and rhythmic. Most recently Tra Mi presented Seven dances for two people (2024) as commissioned for Lucy Guerin Inc’s Pieces to much acclaim. In 2022, Tra Mi won the Keir Choreographic Award for her duet The. Other choreographic works include HOLDING (2021); And, again (2022), (UP)HOLDING (2023); Not the Piece (2023), Somewhere between ten and fourteen (commission for Sydney Dance Company, 2023). Her choreographic practice has been supported through residencies with Bundanon, Australian Dance Theatre, Critical Path, Lucy Guerin Inc, DirtyFeet, Tasdance, Sydney Fringe, Ausdance NSW. Tra Mi is an Artist in Residence at The Substation for 2024/2025. Tra Mi has danced for Lucy Guerin Inc in multiple major works; Make Your Own World (2019), The Clock: Timepiece (2019), PENDULUM (2021-23), Flux Job (2021), and NEWRETRO (2023). Recently she stepped into Guerin’s iconic duet work Split (2017) performing at Seoul International Dance Festival (2023) and ImPulsTanz (2024). In 2023 she joined the cast of Stephanie Lake’s Manifesto (2021), performing in shows in Melbourne, Auckland, Madrid, and Châlons-en-Champagne and will be premiering in Lake's new work The Chronicles in 2025. Tra Mi has danced for many celebrated artists and companies including Chunky Move, Joel Bray Dance, Michelle Heaven, Victoria Chiu, Dance Makers Collective and more. Tra Mi graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) from Victorian College of the Arts in 2014.