Frances Rings
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Frances Rings is a dancer, choreographer and television presenter. She was born in Adelaide, a descendant of the Kokatha Tribe.
After taking dance as an elective at high school, she decided to pursue it as a career and so enrolled at NAISDA Dance College. While studying, she also toured with the Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre and performed with Bangarra Dance Theatre.
After graduating from NAISDA, Frances joined Bangarra Dance Theatre in 1993, performing in 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 Theatre.
Her 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.
Frances has also presented for SBS TV’s ICAM, including interviewing Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, and presenting live-to-air coverage of the Corroboree Walk 2000 across the Sydney Harbour Bridge for SBS.
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