page_title: Natalia Matsak
section_title: Honored Artist of Ukraine
hierarchical_section_title: Natalia Matsak / Biography / Honored Artist of Ukraine
caption_attribution_description: English: National Opera House of Ukraine_Carmen
context_page_description: Natalia Matsak is a Ukrainian ballet dancer, prima ballerina in the National Opera House of Ukraine, and an Honored Artist of Ukraine.
context_section_description: Matsak's work was closely intertwined with performances on the stage of the National Opera House of Ukraine. Since 2008 Matsak she has been awarded with the title Honored Artist of Ukraine according to a Decree of the President of Ukraine Victor Yushenko. In April 2010 there was An Evening with Natalia Matsak which was dedicated to the first 10 years of her ballet career. The performances chosen to be staged were Carmen Suite (to the music of G. Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin, ballet master A. Alonso) and Scheherazade (to the music of N. Rimsky-Korsakov, choreography by M. Fokine, revised by V. Yaremenko).
  In winter 2014 Matsak took part in the project "Irina Kolesnikova invites...", held in the Palais des congrès de Paris, where she performed as Nikiya in "La Bayadere" and Odile-Odette in "Swan Lake" with Vadim Muntagirov, principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London. In summer 2015 an "Irina Kolesnikova season" took place in the London Coliseum, where she performed as Odile-Odette in "Swan Lake" with Kimin Kim, principal dancer with the Mariinsky Theater, and as Gamzatti in "La Bayadere" with Denis Rodkin, principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet Company.
  In December 2015 within the tour Ave Maya! in memory of Maya Plisetskaya she performed on the stages of Dnepropetrovsk, Kiev, Odessa and Chisinau (Moldova).
  2016 started with performances in "Swan Lake" and "Nutcracker" in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and Belgrade (Serbia), and also in "Don Quixote" in Riga (Latvia).
caption: As Carmen in "Carmen Suite"
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