Aneta Dortová is a dance artist, choreographer, and musician based in Galway, Athens, and Pilsen. She is an MA in Contemporary Dance Performance graduate from the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick. Her artistic practice centers on the relationship between live music and dance, as well as the intersection of traditional and contemporary dance.

As a dance tutor, she specializes in teaching improvisation methods, modes of communication for collaborating and performing with live music, and the development of safe and efficient movement technique with respect to the body. As a performer, she explores movement and choreography as a language and means of communication, enabling honest interactions with audiences and communities.

Her expertise is in solo step dance traditions of Ireland and percussive dance traditions of the North Atlantic region. Her percussive dance vocabulary includes steps from Ireland, Canada, the United States, England, Scotland, and Spain, and body percussion. Her background is in Irish step dancing and sean-nós dancing. Rather than repeating fixed routines, she’s improvising in real time accompanying the musician playing for her. Her contemporary dance training consists of release technique, contact improvisation, and somatic-based movement.

Aneta finds joy in collaborating with artists of all disciplines, firmly believing in the transformative power of dance and its potential to create connections within and between communities.

She will be teaching workshops in ‘Sean-nós dance’, ‘Percussive dance methods for improvisation and creativity’ and ‘Mobility, strength, and flexibility for (percussive) dancers, musicians, and everyone else’.