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Born on the same day as fellow centenarian, American actor/producer/director Norman Lloyd.

Has remained active as a performer/choreographer at over one hundred years of age, eighty plus years after entering the profession.

Became involved in the Bodenwieser Ballet in her late 20s, an institution considered to be the country's first modern dance company.

Over her career, she also worked and lived in India, Paris, London and New York.

Has a brother.

Her memoir "Eileen: Stories from the Phillip Street Courtyard" was published in November 2018 by Melbourne Books.

Studied singing at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

In her 80s she joined the Trillium Performing Arts Collective in Lewisburg, West Virginia where she rekindled her love of dancing, reinventing herself as a choreographer.

In 2017, at 103, she choreographed and performed in the production A Buddha's Wife as the 17-year-old princess.

At the age of 99 she was named ambassador for the Arts Health Institute, with the national advocacy body financially supporting her to continue her work.

Her father was a car salesman, her mother a store detective.

Was an artist's model for Norman Lindsay.

In 2008 she self-published her first book, "Walkabout Dancer", an account of her life.

In 2015 she was nominated as one of the 100 Women of Influence Awards by The Australian Financial Review and Westpac.

In 2017 a portrait of her by filmmaker Sue Healey was a finalist in the Digital Portrait Prize (National Portrait Gallery, Canberra) and a finalist in the Blake Prize (Casula Powerhouse, Sydney) in 2018.

At a casino in Dieppe, while her partner Baruch Shadmi played roulette, she met Louis Armstrong and he taught her to do the twist.

In 2022, Kramer made a video while dancing seated on a chair to the instrumental piece "Eileen" by clarinettist David Orlowsky (of the David Orlowsky Trio) and lutenist David Bergmüller, from their album Alter Ego. The video was released in May 2022 and won the "video clip" award in the 2023 Opus Klassik prizes.

After leaving the Bodenweiser Ballet in 1953, she travelled to India, then lived and worked in Paris as an artist's model, often for André Lhote and his studio.

After attending a performance of the Bodenwieser Ballet in 1940, she immediately decided on a career change to dance. After joining the troupe that had made such an impression on her, she toured around Australia and overseas for the next decade. She then lived and worked in France and the United States for the next 60 years, before returning to Australia where she remained active in the arts until her death.

Kramer never married nor had any children. Her first relationship was with Richard Want, her psychoanalyst, in 1936.

In 1957, aged 42, she met Israeli-American filmmaker Baruch Shadmi. The two collaborated on a mixed animated and live-action film for which she hand-made over 400 figures.

The artist, dancer, choreographer and writer was the oldest woman in New South Wales (Australia), and most likely the longest living dancer internationally.

Eileen Kramer became involved in the Bodenwieser Ballet in her late 20s, an institution founded by Gertrud Bodenwieser and considered to be the first modern dance company in Australia. She was the last dancer of the Bodenwieser era.

In 2019, she entered a self-portrait for the Archibald Prize, becoming the award's oldest-ever contributor.

While working on a film in the mid-1960s, her partner Baruch Shadmi had a stroke, and Kramer effectively put her dance career on hold for 18 years while caring for him in New York.