Dance
Rings took a dance elective at high school, later enrolling at National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association Dance College and while studying, toured with the Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre and performed with Bangarra Dance Theatre, where she is now a choreographer.
Frances joined Bangarra Dance Theatre in 1993, performing in Stephen Page's Praying Mantis Dreaming, Ninni and Ochres. In 1995 she took up an Australia Council grant to study in New York at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Career highlights include performing in the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games, at New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the Next Wave Down Under Festival, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.. In 2002 Frances made her mainstage choreographic debut for Bangarra with Rations, the first half of the acclaimed production of Walkabout.
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