frances d'ath dance for when darkness takes us
BIOGRAPHY
Frances graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts School of Dance in 2001, and has since choreographed 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 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 danced in the work of 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. She worked with Hans van den Broeck/SOIT on the settlement performance at ImPulsTanz in Vienna in 2008. 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, and will be returning to Vienna to work with Hans van den Broeck/SOIT again during ImPulsTanz, 2010. Frances blogs on www.supernaut.info
PERFORMANCE WORKS
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
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
GRANTS + 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
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