Paulína Šmatláková is a dancer from Bratislava.

Her studies began at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and continued at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. She graduated with a Bachelor degree in Contemporary Dance. During freelancing in London Paulína worked as a choreographer and a performer in an interdisciplinary group-devised physical theatre project, Lingering Games, performed in Taipei. Between 2017 and 2020 she was a full-time dancer with Black Box Dance Company in Denmark. Here she worked with choreographers such as Ben Wright, Jason Mabana, Marie Brolin-Tani and Tina Tarpgaard, touring nationally and internationally (Sweden, Greenland, Tanzania, South Korea, Rwanda). In September 2020 she took part in making a dance film in Norway with Compassion2Dance Company, choreographed by Tendai Makurumbandi. In 2021 she has been part of 2 film projects: an opera movie directed by Lasse Schwanenflugel Piasecki (Denmark) and a feature dance film directed by Gyuri Kristof (Hungary) and choreographed by Anton Lachky (Slovakia/Brussels). Since October 2020 Paulína has been a freelance dancer, working both in Slovakia and Denmark as a performer, creator and a contemporary dance teacher.