Late and early Works of Hundred Year Olds

Eileen Kramer

Eileen Kramer, Born in 1914 in Australia, is a Dancer who celebrates her 108th birthday this year.

Here, you see a compilation for the Australian ballet from 1948, when Kramer was 34 years old.

Spotlight on Australian Ballet, National Film Board, 1948. National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
Eileen dances in ‘Waterlilies’ from 13:47, and in ‘Demon Machine’ and then ‘The Blue Danube’ from 22:05.

This Video from 2022 shows 107-year old Eileen Kramer dancing to a title, composed for her.

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Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Avant Garde movement in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1917. She had earlier studied art and theater in Paris, and was working in New York as an actress. She later worked at sculpture and pottery. Wood was characterized as the "Mama of Dada".

The first piece of fine art Wood produced while working with Marcel Duchamp in 1917.

Beatrice Wood, “Un peut d’eau dans du savon”, 1917

The Teapot Couple is a work, Wood evolved 72 years later…