At 91, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman dances in nature at her bushland retreat outside Canberra, Mirramu Creative Arts Centre, surrounded by writers, singers and visual artists stoking their respective muses. “So many people bring up this age thing,” she says, “and my reply is that in dance we are ageless.”
A contemporary dance pioneer in Australia, Dalman has just seen the final performance of one of her “great inspirations” and occasional collaborators, dancer Eileen Kramer, in a filmed component of the dance work Afterworld, part of Sydney festival. Kramer died in November at 110. “I’m going to live to that age,” Dalman chuckles.
