Performer, choreographer, director and writer, she is currently one of the most prominent personalities of experimental dance and physical theatre, working both in the Czech Republic and abroad. After graduating from the Dance Conservatory in Prague with a degree in classical ballet, she studied simultaneously at DAMU (Alternative Theatre) and HAMU (Nonverbal Theatre), where she received her PhD in 2012 in the field of directing physical and mime theatre. During her studies she was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Research and Teaching Fellowship at American University in Washington DC, where she created a new field of physical theatre. As a performer, she has more than twenty full-length productions to her credit, many of which, mostly original, have won major international awards, including. S/He is Nancy Joe (The Best of Contemporary Dance 2012 by Washington Post, Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), The Voice of Anne Frank (Best Overseas Production at the Internatinal Arts Festival in South Africa, Outstanding Performance Award at the Prague Fringe Festival, Best of Fringe at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival), Antiwords (Divadelní noviny Award, Next Wave Festival Award, Skupova Plzně Award) and many others. As a director and choreographer she has created more than fifteen full-length productions, often in foreign co-productions, e.g. Sniper's Lake (co-produced with Baerum Kulturhus, Norway), Shrimp á la Indigo (supported by a residency at Schloss Bröllin, Germany and in another version for Dixon Place, NYC), FAiTH (supported by a residency at Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington DC), Vernissage (produced by New Music Theater, Washington DC), Vivisectic (supported by Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn and Gibney Dance, New York).

She has also directed several operas, including a production of Opera and the French Revolution, for which she was commissioned by Opera Lafayette, the American Baroque Orchestra, and which was performed at the Rose Theatre at Lincoln Center, New York, and Lisner Auditorium, Washington DC.

Based on her English-Czech fictional documentary Miss America (wo-men publishers), she created a one woman show of the same name, for which she was nominated for a Thalia Award and received two nominations, the European Union Prize for Literature and the Theatre Newspaper Award for Publication for her second book, Baletky (Paseka).

As an academic, she has taught and lectured at several American universities (American University in Washington DC, Tampa University in Florida, Stephens Collage in Missouri, and repeatedly at Mercesburg Academy in Pennsylvania as choreographer and lecturer of original works). She is co-founder of the Spitfire Company (with P. Boháč) and Tantehorse (with R. Vizváry) and the international festival Zero Point.

Recently, she has been heavily involved in documentary dance theatre (docu-dance), most recently the Invisible series about women artists, curating the dance activism project Emergency Dances and lecturing the educational project Tantelab, which bridges the end of studies and the beginning of professional careers of young artists.