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Elephants and Other Stories

Elephants and Other Stories


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A collection of wise and whimsical short stories from legendary centenarian dancer, artist and choreographer Eileen Kramer, written from lock-down in Sydney in 2020, the year of her 106th birthday. Illustrated with montages and drawings, and including biographical notes as well as photographs from Eileen's long and inspirational life.



About the Author :
Eileen Kramer is an Australian dancer, choreographer, artist and writer - a true creative spirit - born in 1914 and still making art in 2021 at the age of 106. Eileen was an original member of the influential Bodenwieser Ballet, Australia's first modern dance company. Joining the company in 1940, she toured with them extensively for a decade, both within Australia and internationally, then spent the next 60 years living and working overseas. She danced and painted murals in Karachi, worked as an artist's model in Paris and London, met Ella Fitzgerald and Chico Marx, and learnt the twist from Louis Armstrong. In the 1970s, she made a full-length feature film with her partner, Baruch Shadmi, using stop-motion animation shot entirely in their New York apartment. When Baruch died in 1987, Kramer moved to West Virginia, joined a performance collective in Lewisburg, and began to dance again, as well as design costumes and choreograph new works. She returned to Australia in 2013 aged 99, because she "missed the kookaburras and the smell of gum trees", but her creative energy remained strong. She choreographed and starred in two dance dramas for the stage in 2015 and 2017, and collaborated with award-winning dance filmmaker Sue Healey on several short films. She had roles in Belvoir's production of The Wizard of Oz (2015), and the Foxtel series The End (2020) and danced in music videos for the likes of Lacey Cole (2014) and Sarah Belkner (2015). Eileen published her first memoir, Walkabout Dancer, in 2008, and a fantasy novel The Heliotropians, in 2009. This was followed in 2018 by Eileen: Stories from the Phillip Street Courtyard, chronicling her bohemian adventures sharing an inner-Sydney rooming house in the 1930s. Then, in 2020, the COVID-19 lockdown saw her spinning her vast trove of memories into the imaginative tales that became the book Elephants and Other Stories, as well as conceiving a new work for film, The God Tree, released in 2021. Find out more at eileen-kramer.com.

Review :

"The stories in this book attest to both the spirit that has animated Eileen for 106 years and her quirky yet acute powers of observation. They celebrate the small moments in a life - everyday happenings that, if looked at in the right light, dance with magic." Sue Healey


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780645194302
  • Publisher: Basic Shapes Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Basic Shapes Publishing
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 234
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 580 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0645194301
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jul 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 148 mm


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