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Towards the end of her life Bodenwieser began to look to Australia as a source of choreographic inspiration. Her Central Australian Suite explored themes of harshness and loneliness. The work is a poignant reminder of Bodenwieser’s own alienation from the cultivated world of early twentieth century Vienna where she had spent her formative years.

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Clif Peir (1905–1985)
Portrait of Gertrud Bodenwieser, c.1950
Pictures Collection,
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