About
Biography
Frances has made the performances monadologie, hell, temperance, and extermination in Melbourne, all the people i can remember sleeping with…, pestilence, and crush in Adelaide, apocalypse prd, bitches, and carnivore in Guangzhou, China and other works for stage and film in Australia, Taiwan, and Europe. Frances has had residencies at ADT Australian Dance Theatre, ANAT AIR Residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics, Guangdong Modern Dance Company on an Asialink Performing Arts Residency, Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan, and Park19 Artists Studios in Guangzhou. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts School of Dance in 2001, was a DanceWEB Scholarship recipient to ImPulsTanz in Vienna in 2003 and a choreographer at SiWiC – Swiss International Choreographic Workshop in Zürich in 2005, directed by DV8 founder Nigel Charnock.
She has performed in the work of Dasniya Sommer in Berlin, Roméo Castellucci in Brussels, Hans Van den Broeck in Vienna, Daniel Jaber and Gala Moody in Australia, Cie. Denise Lampart in Zürich, Ivo Dimchev in Vienna, and Long Yunna in Guangzhou. Frances has received funding from Arts Victoria, Arts SA, Australia-China Council, Asialink, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Besen Family Foundation, ANAT, and Australia Council. In 2009, she took time away from theatre to code and design at thingswithbits.info.
Currently she is living in Berlin and works with Dasniya Sommer. Frances blogs on supernaut.info
Performance Works
2011
Der n+2 dimensionale Raum für n>1 — with Dasniya Sommer, Bains Connective, Brussels
abjection — Berlin
2008
pestilence — Adelaide, Australia
monadologie — ANAT/AIR Residency, Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics, Melbourne, Australia
2007
all the people I can remember sleeping with… — ADT Ignition7 Gender Studies, Adelaide, Australia
2006
CRUSH — Adelaide, Australia co-choreographed with Amanda Phillips
temperance — Melbourne, Australia
Apocalypse PRD 岭南启示录 — Park19 Guangzhou, China
hell — Melbourne, Australia
2005
hell 12min.max. — Tanzhaus Wasserwerk Zürich, Suisse
bitches 婊子 — Park19 Guangzhou, China
white riot — Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
i am alive and you are dead — Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2004
extermination — Melbourne, Australia
2003
extermination — Melbourne, Australia
all for dunja — 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria
2002
carnivore 吃肉得人 — Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Guangzhou, China
dead white — Melbourne, Australia
2001
shadetreemechanic — Melbourne, Australia
2000
scanners — Melbourne, Australia
pirn — Chunky Move – Live Acts I & IV
Performer
2011
Dasniya Sommer — BVG ∫-1∞ dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf), Uferhallen Berlin
Roméo Castellucci — Parsifal, la Monnaie / de Munt, Brussels
2010
Hans Van den Broeck / SOIT — Café Prückel, ImPulsTanz, Vienna
Dasniya Sommer — Fr ⊂ Dy, London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage
2008
Hans Van den Broeck / SOIT — Settlement, ImPulsTanz, Vienna
2007
Daniel Jaber — Snake Bite, ADT Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide
Gala Moody — Chow & Co., Adelaide
2006
Gala Moody — Jesuit Novice in Ossegg, Melbourne
Cie. Denise Lampart — Mercy 45, Zürich
2003
Ivo Dimchev — All for Dunja, ImPulsTanz, Vienna
Residencies & Workshops
2006
Park19, Guangzhou, China
Loft345, Guangzhou, China
2005
12min.max. Tanzhaus Wasserwerk Zürich, Suisse
SiWiC Artistic Director: Nigel Charnock, Zürich, Suisse
Park19, Guangzhou, China
2004
Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
SLY Art Studios, Taipei Taiwan
Dancehouse, Melbourne, Australia
2003
DanceWEB, ImPulsTanz, Vienna, Austria
2002
Asialink Performing Arts Residency, Guangzhou, China
Funding & Awards
Arts Victoria — hell, extermination, dead white
Australia-China Council — Park19 residencies
ANAT — Conference and Workshop Fund
Ian Potter Cultural Trust — Artist and Travel Grants
Besen Family Foundation — Art and Cultural Grant
Australia Council for the Arts — Skills and Arts Development