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 dancer for leading companies Lucy Guerin Inc, and Stephanie Lake Company, 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 late 2024, she was commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc for the PIECES season – premiering her duet ‘Seven dances for two people’ to high acclaim. In 2025, Tra Mi returns to Sydney Dance Company to restage her New Breed piece for presentation as part of Continuum, a triple bill program alongside works by Rafael Bonachela and Stephen Page.

Tra Mi’s other choreographic credits include HOLDING (2021, March Dance), And, again (2022, commissioned by DirtyFeet), (UP)HOLDING (2023 Dancehouse Season 1 program), Not the Piece (2023, Readymade Works commission with PACT), Nhang Tram Huong (2024, Opera House commission for Shortwave). 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. She creates distinct yet interconnected dance work that explores our experience of time and our relationships to endings, beginnings, enduring, advancing, and transforming. Tra Mi is interested in movement that is virtuosic, precise, absurd, embodied, surprising, energetic, and rhythmic.

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.

Tra Mi's work as a dance artist was recognised with a fellowship from the late Chloe Munro AO in 2022. Tra Mi is a keen member of the Australian dance ecology, evident in her recent DRIP events (Dancers Relaxing In the Park) – a relaxed picnic for the dance community that aims to provide a casual way for dancers to connect outside the studio or theatre foyer. She has also recently announced a new workshop ‘Dancers are Dancing Series’, a five-day intensive led by five independent choreographer/dancers for professional and emerging dancer artists to expand their professional development.