Australian dancer and choreographer Eileen Kramer, 110, died on Nov. 15. Kramer joined the Bodenwieser Ballet (yes, I also read that as “the Budweiser Ballet”) in 1940 and eventually trouped through Australia, France, and the US for some six decades. She was born a few months after WWI started (on the same day as actor Norman Lloyd, who lived to be 106) and at her death, was the oldest woman in New South Wales. She put her career on hold for some 20 years while caring for her ailing companion, filmmaker Baruch Shadmi; as an elderly woman, Kramer choreographed and danced in such pieces as The Early Ones and A Buddha’s Wife. At age 106, Kramer told the BBC, “I’m not old, I’ve just been here a long time and learnt a few things along the way. I don’t feel how people say you should feel when you’re old. My attitude to creating things is identical to when I was a child.”
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