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Tra Mi Dinh is a choreographer and dance artist. She is the most recent recipient of the Keir Choreographic Award (2022) for her work The ___.

Her choreographic practice has been supported by Lucy Guerin Inc, Temperance Hall, Australian Dance Theatre, ReadyMade Works, Critical Path, March Dance, Ausdance NSW, Tasdance, and Sydney Fringe Festival.

As a dancer, Tra Mi has worked with artists and companies including Lucy Guerin Inc, Chunky Move, Stephanie Lake Company, Dance Makers Collective, Joel Bray Dance, Michelle Heaven, Victoria Chiu, and more. In 2019 Tra Mi received a Green Room Award nomination for her performance in Lucy Guerin’s Make Your Own World.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Seven x 7 (working title) is a dance work obsessed with the number 7. Its significance permeates across cultures and time, symbolising totality, wholeness and perfection. In classical antiquity, the number 7 represents the union of the spiritual (number 3) with the physical (number 4). This equation offers an unusual explanation of the process of dancing - a corporeal, transcendent experience. In religion, mathematics, folklore, music and more, the number 7 returns again and again. Caught up in the sacred repetition of this ubiquitous symbol, Seven x 7 harnesses dance as a ritualistic endeavour towards wholeness; it is a reverent meditation to the number 7.

Seven x 7 is an extension of Dinh's recent short work 'Seven dances for two people' originally commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc for PIECES 2024. A duet, in its first form, this development supports the expansion of the work to a cast of 7 dancers, towards a 2026 premiere season.

SEVEN X 7 TEAM

Choreographer: Tra Mi Dinh

Dancers: Rachel Coulson, Tra Mi Dinh (full cast TBC)

Sound Composition: Tilman Robinson

Costume: Geoffery Watson

Lighting: Rachel Lee

This project was originally co-commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc and University of Melbourne Arts and Culture for PIECES 2024.