About

Tony Trinh Tran is a Norwegian–Vietnamese choreographer and performer based between Oslo and Geneva. He graduated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen in 2012.

His artistic practice explores masculine identities and their intimate connections to violence, transgenerational trauma, and perspectives from within and beyond the Southeast Asian diaspora. His work has toured across Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, East and Southeast Asia, and South America.

Alongside his artistic practice, Tran has held a number of roles within the Norwegian performing arts field. From 2020 to 2024, he served on the performing arts committee of the Audio and Visual Fund. His previous roles include board positions with Scenekunstbruket, Performing Arts Hub Norway and Norske Dansekunstnere, membership of the Artistic Council at Dansens Hus Oslo, and serving on the jury for the national Hedda Award. He currently serves on the board of Davvi — Centre for Performing Arts in Northern Norway.

Tran has also developed curatorial and collaborative initiatives. He has curated the performing arts programme for the cross-disciplinary music festival Lyse Netter and is the founder of Program Grands Crus, an initiative developing artistic research, exchange and international collaboration with performing artists based in Vietnam.