Lea Švejdová

Dancer, choreographer. She is one of the first graduates of the Duncan Centre Conservatory (1997). She then studied at the P.A.R.T.S. Dance Academy in Brussels and spent three years with the international dance company Déja Donné (Lenka Flory and Simone Sandroni). In 2003, she returned to the Czech Republic and began to collaborate on projects by other artists. "Nora Sopková", "Serge Ambert", "Krepsko", "Andrea Miltnerová", "Lenka Tretiagová", "Divadlo bratří Formanů" and others. She became a founding member of the dance group NANOHACH, where she worked as a dancer and choreographer. During the fourteen years of its existence she performed in twenty-five projects. In 2006, she won the Sazka Award for performance, her choreography Hechizada de Luxe was awarded The Best Contemporary Award (Russia, 2011) and was nominated for the Sazka Award 2008 in the category of discovery in dance. She currently teaches contemporary dance technique, improvisation and creation at the Duncan Centre Conservatory and collaborates with Post bellum. She is recently collaborating with SE.S.TA on the creative and educational project School of Dance.