She started her career as a dancer, and then worked as a dance teacher, choreographer and Benesh Movement notator. Then she went on assisting choreographers and directors on dance and opera productions, while she still enjoys the opportunity to choreograph She has also worked on a great number of TV productions and films, including the very popular Shakespeare in Love. (1998). As assistant and staff director she has worked for many opera companies: Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Bayerisches Staatsoper Munich, Opernhaus Zurich, La Scala Milan, Mariinsky Theater and the Kammeroper Vienna. She has choreographed operas in the theaters: Garsington Opera, Scottish Opera, Royal Opera House London, Zurich Opera House. She has arranged revivals of productions for the English National Opera (ENO) the New York City Opera, and in Venice, Milan, Seville, Boston and Zurich. She is full-time staff director for English National Opera. Besides the ENO, she has directed operas, such as: Eugene Onegin, La Traviata, Orpheus and Eurydice (Orfeo ed Eurydice), The lighthouse, etc. She recently directed the The Pretend Garden-Girl (La Finta Giardiniera) for the Kammeroper in Vienna, as well as the operas The Soldier’s Tale (L'istoire du soldat) and and Peter Maxwell Davies’ Vesalii Icones for Psappha, the Manchester-based contemporary music group. At the GNO, she has worked once, arranging the revival of the direction and choreography of the opera The Cunning Little Vixen [Příhody lišky Bystroušky] (Olympia, 2014/15).