Daniela Stavělová is an ethnocoreographer, choreographer, and teacher. She studied ethnology and history at Charles University and completed a special course in dance pedagogy at HAMU in Prague. She has worked as a dancer with the Chorea Bohemica ensemble and collaborated as a choreographer with a number of folk ensembles and professional theater companies. Since 1996, she has been a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and regularly lectures at HAMU in Prague and abroad. In 2009, she was awarded the Ministry of Culture's prize in the field of traditional folk culture for combining research with artistic creation. She has also published a multimedia study entitled Červená růžičko, proč se nerozvíjíš: Tanec, identita, status a integrace (2008) (Red Rose, Why Don't You Bloom: Dance, Identity, Status, and Integration)  in collaboration with Vistafilm. It includes a 32-minute documentary film, an academic text, and bonus features. Her latest work is a collective monograph entitled Tíha a beztíže Folkloru. Folklorní hnutí druhé poloviny 20. století v českých zemích (2022) (The Weight and Weightlessness of Folklore: The Folklore Movement in the Czech Lands in the Second Half of the 20th Century).

Her project Proč Folklor? (Why Folklore?) is part of Matchmaking.