Dancer, choreographer, costumer designer, artist and writer
Eileen Kramer was born in 1914 and grew up in Cremorne, Sydney, a child of the bush and the harbour. Her career spans four continents and a century of creativity.
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Eileen completes film dedicated to Gertrud Bodenwieser
‘Waterlily Variations’ is inspired by a short dance created by Gertrud Bodenwieser in 1925, and performed by Eileen in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Made with long-time collaborator Sue…
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Sunshine and sparkle for a significant birthday
A ‘great mob’ of friends gathered beside a sparkling Sydney harbour in early November to help Eileen Kramer celebrate 108 years of creativity and comradeship. Those assembled were treated to…
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Short film ‘Eileen’ – screened to acclaim at New York Dance on Camera Festival – now released
“She shatters all manner of expectations, and it’s exhilarating. She is uninhibited, at her ease, vivacious, drawing you in with her naturalness and making you feel you’re involved in life…
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Sue Healey’s exquisite short film was created as a music video for the track ‘Eileen’, from the 2022 album Alter Ego by David Orlowsky (clarinet) and David Bergmüller (lute).
Eileen’s film The God Tree was released in November 2021, in time for her 107th birthday. Inspired by a monumental Moreton Bay Fig in Glebe, Sydney, it was made with the help of long-time collaborator Sue Healey and featuring music by the legendary Mike Nock.
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Bodenwieser style
Eileen first saw the Bodenwieser Dance Company perform in 1940, at the age of 25. “Whatever it was in my psyche that recognises its own told me immediately that this was for me. The next day I found out where Madame Bodenwieser was teaching and went there straightaway to see whether I could become a student of the dance.” By the end of 1940, she was given her first solo, ‘Spring’, and was designing costumes for the company as well. Her first performance as a professional member of the company was in 1943.
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