https://eileen-kramer.com/2024/11/10/super-centenarian/https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ek-birthday-2024-with-shane.jpegEK-birthday-2024-with-ShaneWith friend Shane Carrollhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ek-birthday-2024-with-lucy.jpegEK-birthday-2024-with-LucyWith Lucy Gold, who has danced in several of the recent films Eileen has made with Sue Healeyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ek-birthday-2024-with-auntie-delmae.jpegEK-birthday-2024-with-Auntie-DelmaeWith Aunty Delmae Barton, who sang for Eileen as well as dedicating a beautiful poem to herhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ek-birthday-2024-sunshine.jpegEK-birthday-2024-sunshineSparkly shoes...https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ek-birthday-2024-stars-on-the-road.jpegEK-birthday-2024-stars-on-the-roadhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ek-birthday-2024-stars-in-the-hand.jpegEK-birthday-2024-stars-in-the-handInto the lighthttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ek-birthday-2024-group.jpegEK-birthday-2024-groupArms please...https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ek-birthday-2024-gardenias.jpegEK-birthday-2024-gardeniasLady of the gardeniashttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ek-birthday-2024-eileen-with-star.jpegEK-birthday-2024-Eileen-with-starStar of the showhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ek-birthday-2024-closup.jpegEK-birthday-2024-closup2024-11-16T13:22:41+00:00monthlyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/2023/10/08/short-film-eileen-screens-to-acclaim-at-new-york-dance-on-camera-festival/https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/eileen3_still-fromfilm_eileenkramer.jpgEileen3_still fromfilm_EILEENKRAMER2024-11-16T13:05:38+00:00monthlyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/home/about/https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/eileen-in-now-memory.jpgEileen in Sue Healey's installation, 'Now Memory', 2017Eileen in Sue Healey's installation, 'Now Memory', 2017 https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/eileen-in-woollen-hat.jpgEileen wearing a hat she designed and made as part of a promotion for the Australian Wool Board, 1947.Eileen wearing a hat she designed and made as part of a promotion for the Australian Wool Board, 1947.2024-11-16T09:50:25+00:00weekly0.6https://eileen-kramer.com/home/books/https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/life-keeps-me-dancing-cover-2.jpglife-keeps-me-dancing-cover-2https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/the-heliotropians-e1644659460267.jpgThe-Heliotropianshttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/walkabout-dancer-e1644659434380.jpgWalkabout-dancerhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/stories-from-the-phillip-street-courtyard-e1644659074143.jpgStories-from-the-Phillip-Street-Courtyard2024-08-26T09:27:35+00:00weekly0.6https://eileen-kramer.com/2023/03/31/waterlily/https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/waterlillies-with-jean-e1685525234268.jpgWaterlillies with JeanEileen Kramer and Jean Raymond in 'Waterlilies'https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/pdf-read-now-image.pngPDF read now imagehttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/sue-and-renata-arms-up-portrait.pngWaterlily variationRenata Commisso (left) and Sue Healey reinterpret Gertrud Bodenwieser's 'Waterlilies' under the guidance of Eileen Kramerhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/lewisburg2-garden-dancing-cropped.pngIn Edith's garden, Lewisburg West VirginiaBarry Harel (left) and Carli Mareneck, two of Eileen's friends and collaborators from the Trillium Peforming Arts Collective, Lewisburg West Virginia, enjoying Edith McKinley's garden before the tea party.https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/waterlilies1.pngGertrud Bodenwieser's 'Waterlilies' in a Castle Crag gardenEileen Kramer (left) and Anne Pitsch dance Gertrud Bodenwieser's 'The Waterlilies' - still from 'Spotlight on Australian Ballet', National Film Board, 1948. National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/eileen-arm-tendrils-2621216171-e1668907315990.pngEileen Kramer reimagines 'The Waterlilies'A waterlily variation - arms "like tendrils", as Madame said.https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/sue-and-renata-waterlilies-2022.jpgSue and Renata waterlilies 2022https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/lewisburg4-barrry.pngBarry Harel at the Lewisburg tea party."Hello Eileen!" Barry Harel, Lewisburg West Virginiahttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/anca-party-4.pngSydney tea party"Hello, Lewisburg!" Some of Eileen's friends gather for tea and cake (left to right) Geoff Weston, Eileen, Anca Frankenhaeuser, Julia Cotton, Allie Graham, Patrick Harding-Irmer.https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/window.pngWindow2024-06-30T10:22:51+00:00monthlyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/home/videos/2024-06-30T10:11:58+00:00weekly0.6https://eileen-kramer.com/2024/06/15/highlights-from-2023/https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2023-12-garden-xmas.jpgChristmas in the gardenWhat a year!https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023-10-opus-klassik.pngAward-winning videoThe Opus Klassik Awards are Germany's foremost classical music prizes. The 2023 award for Best Music Video went to Sue Healey's film for 'Eileen', an exquisite clarinet and lute work by David Orlowsky and David Bergmüller from their album 'Alter Ego'.https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023-10-music-video-award-1.jpegDavid Orlowsky and EileenClarinet player and composer David Orlowsky holds a photograph of Eileen after accepting the prize for Best Music Video at the Opus Klassik Awards ceremony in Berlin in October 2023. https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023-10-soh-stage-door.jpegStage doorEileen,with Shane Carroll and Sue Healey at the Sydney Opera House stage door after participating in 'What Is the City but the People'. Photo: Cathy Grayhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023-10-music-video-award.jpeg2023-10-music-video-awardhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023-10-soh-dressing-room-with-participant.jpegBackstage at the Sydney Opera HouseEileen backstage with Winona Poon, a fellow participant in the Sydney Opera House event 'What Is the City but the People' [Photo: Sue Healey]https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023-10-soh-who-is-the-city-3.pngIn the frameEileen faces the cameras on the catwalk at the Sydney Opera House event 'What Is the City but the People'. [Photo: still from the livestream available on the SOH website]https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023-10-soh-who-is-the-city-2.png"I've just been around a long time..."Eileen's participation in 'What Is the City but the People' celebrated her 108 years of creative life. She was supported by her current friends and collaborators Sue Healey and Shane Carroll. [Photo: still from the livestream available on the SOH website]https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023-10-soh-who-is-the-city-1.jpgWhat is the city but the people?What is the city but the people? Eileen was one of 150 Sydney-siders who travelled the yellow catwalk as part of this extraordinary Sydney Opera House one very hot day in October 2023. [Photo: still from the livestream available on the SOH website]https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023-09-brickfields-visit-tables.jpegCoffee at BrickfieldsBack to her old haunt, Brickfields Cafe, opposite Thurles Castle, where she was living in 2017. The proprietor at the time, a musician called Lacey Cole, threw her a party for her 100th birthday, and featured her in the video clip for his song 'Nephilim's Lament'.2024-06-17T11:40:12+00:00monthlyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/2022/11/22/sunshine-and-sparkle-for-a-significant-birthday/https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/screen-shot-2022-11-22-at-6.38.33-pm.pngscreen-shot-2022-11-22-at-6.38.33-pmhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/screen-shot-2022-11-22-at-6.28.55-pm.pngScreen Shot 2022-11-22 at 6.28.55 pmhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/eileen-and-cathy.jpegEileen and Cathyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/with-paul-and-francoise.jpegWIth Paul and Francoisehttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/with-kei.jpegWith Keihttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/with-julia.jpegWith Juliahttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/with-geoff.jpegWith Geoffhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/sue-introduces-the-films-2.jpegSue Healey introduces the filmshttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/eileen-shane-and-sue.jpegEileen, Shane and Suehttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/eileen-with-renata-and-little-bettina.jpegEileen with Renata and little Bettina2023-07-25T05:15:09+00:00monthlyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/bodenwieser-style/2023-07-25T04:39:32+00:00weekly0.6https://eileen-kramer.com/2020/11/06/eileen-releases-new-film-for-106th-birthday/2023-04-14T03:19:54+00:00monthlyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/2021/11/07/god-tree/https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/dsc02480.jpgDSC02480https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/eileend_1.6.1.pngThe magic garden"We are transported to a magic garden, where nature and art come together."https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/infrared_1.26.1.pngMasked figure in the forest"The film is like a little jewel with each facet reflecting points of inspiration from many many sources."https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/patrick-and-dancers_1.18.1-edit.jpgAerial roots dancers sway"Freed from the mother branch, the aerial roots are slowly discovering the joy of movement." Dancers left to right: Shane Carroll, Anca Frankenhaeuser, Julia Cotton.https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/img_7526.jpegEileen in purple veil"The last thing we film is the dance of a mystery character, a spirit of movement, whose costume is nothing but a cloud of purple veiling all about her."https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/img_7523.pngMasked figures in white"... a procession of masks and shapes and figures, against the backdrop of the god tree herself.”https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/img_7533.jpegIMG_75332023-04-14T03:19:03+00:00monthlyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/2021/08/01/new-book-of-stories-released/https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/elephants-book-display.gifElephants-book-display2022-11-20T00:50:24+00:00monthlyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/home/contact/2022-06-20T09:20:45+00:00weekly0.6https://eileen-kramer.com/2021/11/25/107th-birthday/https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/eileen-and-candles.pngEileen and candleshttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/eileen-on-exercise-1.pngEileen on exercise2021-11-25T01:03:43+00:00monthlyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/2021/03/16/on-location-inside-the-ancient-mother-tree/2021-03-17T03:11:11+00:00monthlyhttps://eileen-kramer.com/2020/11/09/louis-armstrong-helps-celebrate-eileens-106th-birthday/https://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/group.jpgBless you all...Left to right in front of Eileen: Julia Cotton, Renata Commisso, Patrick Harding-Irmer, Shane Carroll, Sue Healey, Allie Graham, Geoff Weston, Lucy Gold, Anca Frankenhaeuserhttps://eileen-kramer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ek.jpgEK2020-11-10T03:43:17+00:00monthlyhttps://eileen-kramer.comdaily1.02024-11-16T13:22:41+00:00