Trailblazing dancer and choreographer Eileen Kramer dies, aged 110

Sydney icon danced in the jazz bars of Paris, painted murals in Karachi and mixed with Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Groucho Marx

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Eileen Kramer, the trailblazing creative who was part of the company which “altered the face of modern dance” in Australia, has died at the age of 110. Her peers say her eleventh decade was the most creative of her life.

The dancer, choreographer, artist and writer died peacefully at her home in Lulworth House in Sydney at 4.45pm on Friday, exactly a week after her 110th birthday.

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