[1] She started ballet at a local studio after she watched a video of Swan Lake.
[2][3] At age 15, Havelka and her mother moved to Melbourne to train at the Australian Ballet School[4] and graduated in 2007.
[2] In 2012, Havelka danced Stephen Page's Warumuk – in the dark night, a collaboration between Bangarra and The Australian Ballet, in honour of the latter's 50th anniversary.
The following year, she joined The Australian Ballet, at the invitation of artistic director David McAllister, making her the first indigenous person to do so.
[3] In 2018, arranged by the Australian Consulate-General, she visited Nouméa, New Caledonia for NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee).