Một Ngày / ONE DAY is Tran Ly Ly's first full-length choreography. The play is financially made possible by the Goethe-Institut and brought to the stage in cooperation with the experienced lighting designer Herbert Cybulska. This piece is invited to celebrate the opening of the European Union Day on May 09, 2007. Freedom and diversity of art and culture are goals of the culture and media policy of the European Union. “With her commitment to the ordinary, Tran Ly Ly engages with the aesthetics of conventional dance practice in contemporary Vietnam. She is not interested in the heroes of progress, the battles of the past or the touching motifs of folklore, but in the drama of individual experience, which she is able to discover behind the supposed banality of the normal.” (Program 2007)
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Two years later, the Goethe-Institut supports Tran Ly Ly in the production of the dance piece Living in the Box, which reflects the inner world of people with multiple personalities. The theme and dance language of the piece are still new to the audience at that time. These and other dance pieces by Tran Ly Ly such as ZEN (2012) and BURNING MAN'S FIGURE are making a strong impression on the contemporary dance stage. In 2013, Tran Ly Ly receives the first prize in the competition for young choreographers. Then Tran Ly Ly said: „People are now ready to consume good and diverse art. They want to see, participate, experience. This is a new but already very strong trend in Vietnam.“
From 2014 to 2016, the Goethe-Institut continued to support Tran Ly Ly in the presentation of her three dance pieces by 7x, YES YES NO NO 1, and YES YES NO NO 2, as part of the annual Europe meets Asia in Contemporary Dance festivals.
In 2016 Tran Ly Ly visited the Dance Platform Germany in her capacity as Vice Rector of the Ho-Chi-Minh City Dance School. Her experiences and conversations with colleagues inspired her to create a new program of contemporary dance. Dieter Heitkamp from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and the Goethe-Institut supported her initiative. In 2019, Tran Ly Ly was appointed director of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB), in 2022 promoted to a senior position in the Ministry of Education.