about

Tony Trinh Tran is a Norwegian-Vietnamese choreographer and performer based in Oslo, Norway, graduated from the Oslo National Academy of Arts and the Danish National School of Performing Arts Copenhagen in 2012. His artistic works spans from explorations of masculine identities and their intimate connection with violence, to transgenerational trauma and perspectives from the inside and outside of Southeast-Asian diaspora. Tran´s work has toured in Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, East and Southeast Asia as well as South America.

He has served as a member of the committee for performing arts for one of the main funding bodies in Norway – The Audio and Visual Fund (2020-24), been on the board of Scenekunstbruket – The Norwegian Network for Performing Arts for Children and Young People, as well as the Performance Arts Hub Norway, and part of the Artistic Council for Dansens Hus Oslo. He currently serves as a member of the jury for the national Hedda Award, and is a board member for the Norwegian Dance Union – Norske Dansekunstnere, as well as Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts in North Norway. Tran furthermore curated performance arts program for the cross-aesthetic music festival Lyse Netter.

He is also the founder of the Program Grands Crus – a foundation to support the creation and mobility of performing artists based in Vietnam.