Minh Tran
Visiting Professor of Dance
Dance Department
Division of the Arts
Born in Vietnam, Minh Tran immigrated to the United States in 1980 as a political refugee. Founder and Artistic Director of Minh Tran & Company (1997-present), a contemporary dance company performs a body of dance works celebrated for its singular fusion of traditional Asian and contemporary western aesthetics. His work has received numerous grants, fellowships and commissions regionally, nationally, and internationally. Few notable accomplishments in his dance career for grants and commissioning works from White Bird, PICA, San Francisco Performances, UCLA’s Asian & Pacific Performance Exchange Initiative, the Rockefeller Foundation, Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, The National Endowment of the Arts, The Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Paul Allen Foundation for the Arts. Minh’s research is specialized Southeast Asian Dance & Culture and Dance Training Toward Performance. This year marks Minh’s return to Reed after serving as Associate Professor of Dance at Reed College 2008-2023. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his cat or traveling with his husband to discover every corner of the world.