Photo: Andreas Leonardsen

Tony 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. His work has been concerned with masculine identities and men’s relationship to their body and sexuality, in particular how masculinity is communicated as a bodily language, as well as being a constructed identity with inherited vocabulary, expression and structure. His work has toured in Europe, Middle East, Asia and North America.

He served as a member of the committee for performing arts for The Audio and Visual Fund for two periods: 2020-22 and 2022-24. He has been previously been part of the board of Performance Arts Hub Norway, and currently serves in the board of Scenekunstbruket – The Norwegian Network for Performing Arts for Children and Young People, and Norske Dansekunstnere – the Independent Union and Artist Association for Dancers, Choreographers, and Educators.

Tony was the artistic advisor for the cross-aesthetic music festival Lyse Netter from 2021-22, responsible for programming of performance arts. He was also a part of the Artistic Council of Dansens Hus Oslo for the year 2023.

His new solo work “Love Tenderly” will premiere at Suialaa Arts Festival in Greenland in October 2025.