Aneta Dortová is a dance artist, choreographer, and musician based in Athens, Galway, and Plzeň. She graduated with an MA in Contemporary Dance Performance from the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick. Her artistic practice focuses on the relationship between live music and dance and traditional and contemporary dance. She co-founded and co-organizes a folk music and dance festival FolCon in Brno, the Czech Republic.

Notable past performances and tours, among others, include Music For Galway, Echo Echo Dance Theatre: Tradition and Beyond Festival (2022,2024), Dancer From The Dance Festival of Irish Choreography, Tunes in the Church concert series, Leitrim Dance Week, Culture Night Galway and Limerick, ReJigged Festival Halifax, MAD Week, Festival de Pardinas Galicia, Celtic Connections Festival (2018, 2019), North Atlantic Fiddle Convention, Ferrara Buskers Festival, 30th Birthday Concert of Kíla in the National Stadium Dublin, Irish Spring tour (2020, 2024), performance and choreography for Sound of Dance project, Rob Heaslip’s STRAWBOYS, and 4 years of busking in Galway city.
She has worked for or collaborated, among others, with Rob Heaslip, Kíla, Bea MacMahon, Justine Doswell, Galway Dance, Finghin Collins, François-Xavier Poizat, Mikey Kenney, Cormac Begley, and William Troy.

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 each person’s needs and abilities. As a performer, she explores movement and choreography as a language and means of communication, enabling honest interactions with audiences and communities. She creates site-specific dance films addressing social issues related to inhabiting space.

Her expertise is in solo step dance traditions of Ireland and percussive dance traditions of the North Atlantic region. Her personal 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, improvisation, contact improvisation, and somatic-based movement.

Aneta enjoys collaborations with dance artists and musicians of any genre. She believes in the transformative power of dance and its potential to forge connections within and between communities.