Anna Sedlačková

She graduated from the Dance Department of the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (Slovakia) where she also completed her postgraduate studies in the field of contemporary dance pedagogy. Later on she has worked as a pedagogue of contemporary dance. She was selected for a residency at the EDDC Arnhem in Holland where she worked in as a guest teacher in 1999. In 1998, she danced for the Marta Renzi & The Project Company within their tour around the USA. In 2001 – 2002, she received the Fulbright Scholarship to attend the Hampshire College, MA USA. Since 1986, she has been creating her own choreographies, performing at many festivals at home, in Europe and the USA. Since 2000, she has been studying the BMC in the USA: since 2006, she is the certified Infant Developmental Movement Educator and Somatic Movement Educator in BMC® and Somatic Movement Educator. Recently she has enrolled in the BMC Practitioner program in Germany. She does research in the field of developmental movement, teaching in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and France. She regularly comes to Prague upon an invitation from SE.S.TA's to lead pedagogical trainings on teaching young children. In recent years, she has been giving these in close cooperation with Sophie Billy.