Eileen Kramer stars in Afterworld by Sue Healey and Laurence Pike at Sydney Festival

“We don’t understand death, do we?” filmmaker and choreographer Sue Healey asks. “I just don’t think our contemporary life affords us rituals or ways of thinking about death.”

It’s a question Healey has been grappling with since well before her collaborator, the dancer Eileen Kramer, died at the…