ballet dancer, Ukraine-Poland
Ilona Kravchenko is a Ukrainian ballet dancer and laureate of international competitions, including the International Ballet and Contemporary Dance Competition Domenico Madugno (1st Prize, Macedonia, 2017) and Mysl-Potok (2nd Prize, Kyiv, 2016).
She graduated from the Kyiv Choreographic College “Kyyanochka” in 2018 and the Kyiv National Pedagogical University named after M. P. Drahomanov.
Her professional career includes positions as principal soloist with Kyiv Modern Ballet (2015–2018), the Dnipropetrovsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (2018–2020), and the Lviv National Opera (2020–2022). Since 2022, she has been a soloist with the Taras Shevchenko National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine.
Her repertoire features leading roles in Giselle, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Paquita, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, among others.
She has toured extensively across Europe, Asia, and North America, performing in countries including Spain, Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Japan, and the United States.