Most professional dancers are told they must end their career at the age of 30 or 40. Most dancers also begin their careers the moment they can walk.
100-year-old Eileen Kramer isn't most dancers.
Born in 1914 in Sydney, Australia, Eileen began her career at the ripe old age (for dancers, yes) of 22 years old. Believing her whole life that she'd have a career in music, when Eileen was 22 years old, she saw a performance by the Vienna's Bodenwieser modern dance company that forever changed her.
"It was the opening of the Blue Danube Waltz… They opened like this and looked up," she said of the Bodenwieser performance. "So I fell for it straight away."
Eileen's career as a dancer began with doubts because of her age — and persists with doubts about her age today. What she is doing in response to those who believe a 100-year-old woman can't move like she used to? Genius.
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