yvette sedlak
is a Czech-born, London-based multidisciplinary and neurodivergent artist, dancer, somatic therapist, video editor, and visual storyteller. Her practice moves across photography, contemporary dance, somatic movement, filmmaking, sound, and embodied research, shaped by a deep interest in how the body processes memory, emotion, trauma, energy, and environment.
She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Documentary Photography and Moving Image from London College of Communication (2023), where her studies in ethics of representation and the power of mass media led her to expand from still photography into experimental film, choreography, and movement-based storytelling. Her artistic language blends photographic stillness, moving image, sound, breath, improvisation, and poetic editing to create multi-layered, emotionally resonant worlds.
As a neurodivergent-informed artist and practitioner of the Triple Vagal Method, her work is grounded in trauma-informed, nervous-system-aware approaches. She is currently finishing training as a somatic therapist (2025–2026), deepening her understanding of the brain–body connection, grounding techniques, and embodied regulation. These skills directly inform her dance practice, where she works with energetic muscle memory, impulse-led movement, vibration, tension release, stillness, and intuitive improvisation.
Her research explores movement as a reparative, relational, and socially engaged practice. She is interested in investigating how dancers and non-professional movers process information differently, particularly within dyslexia- and ADHD-informed frameworks, and how somatic tools can support neurodivergent movers in both one-to-one and group settings.
Her artistic work examines the thresholds between the self and others, private and public, natural and built worlds, always with a commitment to deepening engagement with diverse audiences and community practices, accessibility, care, and inclusive practice.
Her artistic work examines the thresholds between the self and others, private and public, natural and built worlds, always with a commitment to deepening engagement with diverse audiences and community practices, accessibility, care, and inclusive practice.
Her creative influences are strongly shaped by the stories of her ancestors from former Communist Czechoslovakia, informing her interest in intergenerational trauma, displacement, mental health, edges of spirituality, and socio-political structures under global capitalism and patriarchy.
Through intuitive movement, embodied listening, and experimental film aesthetics, she creates poetic, dreamlike, and emotionally grounded works that invite audiences into deeper moral imagination and embodied awareness.
Through intuitive movement, embodied listening, and experimental film aesthetics, she creates poetic, dreamlike, and emotionally grounded works that invite audiences into deeper moral imagination and embodied awareness.
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A London-based multidisciplinary, neurodivergent artist, video editor, visual storyteller and self-trained dancer who graduated with a BA (Hons) in Documentary Photography and Moving Image at the London College of Communication in 2023. Since graduating, she has continued to develop a sustained practice in visual art, creative contemporary dance and improvisation, yoga, Pilates and meditation.
Her practice is deeply influenced by the stories of her ancestors from former Communist Czechoslovakia. Her creative journey is driven by an insatiable curiosity to explore the complexities of human experience and conditions with humanitarian intentions. It aims to shed light on the tensions between personal experience and the broader forces that shape people's lives. Her materials explore the edges of spirituality and socio-political landscapes, continuously informed by ongoing research on mental health crises, intergenerational trauma, displacement, social (in)justice, and decolonisation, explored through the psychoanalytical lens in the context of global capitalism and patriarchy.
Her studies in the ethics of representation and the power of mass media shifted her focus from still photography to film. The film, as a medium, offers the ability to weave together multiple layers of meaning—through photographic stills, moving image, sound, voice narration, music, and poetry—to tell emotionally charged, multi-dimensional stories. This shift allows her to address complex social issues in a more nuanced, holistic way, reflecting both the external and internal landscapes of the people and places she documents.
Her creative endeavours encompass poetic, experimental, and dreamlike aesthetics, guided by intuitive thinking, editing, and a hand-held camera. She incorporates ethereal light play, natural elements and textures into her work as an invitation for moral imagination
She is currently at the early stage of developing a dance movement practice that is inspired by energy, vibration, multidisciplinary encompassing, energetic muscle memory, following tensions, impulses, the notion of reparative movement, choreographic practices as well as improvisation, stillness; examining the relationships between the self and others, the private and public, the natural and built environments to deepen engagement with diverse audiences and community practices in the form of collaborative and solo performances.