Daria Verovka
Ukrainian dancer Daria Verovka (born 8 October 1999 in Kyiv) studied in the Folk Choreography Department of the Kyiv Municipal Serhiy Lifar Dance Academy (head Vadym Sabadash, 2015–2019), where she graduated with honors as a pedagogue and ensemble artist. In 2021, she obtained her bachelor’s degree with honors from the same institution. From 2015 to 2021, she received a scholarship from the Mayor of Kyiv to study at the Serhiy Lifar Dance Academy, and in 2020 she was awarded the Presidential Scholarship of Ukraine. During her studies, she began collaborating with the Ballet Company of the National Opera of Ukraine and the Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre for Children and Youth. In 2018, she performed in the National Opera of Ukraine in Kristian Lever’s dance production Under the Tide.
Since the summer of 2019, she has been working at Klaipėda State Music Theatre (KVMT), performing in the theatre’s dance productions. Among her notable roles are: Marina (in M. Theodorakis’s ballet Zorba the Greek, chor. Lorca Massine), the Baroness and Liucė (In the Shadow of Altars, chor. Aurelijus Liškauskas), Frau Stahlbaum and the Oriental Dancer (in P. Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, chor. Kirill Simonov), Eglė’s Sister and the Daughter Aspen (in E. Balsys’s The Girl and the Serpent, chor. Martynas Rimeikis), Margarita (Faust, chor. Robert Bondara), the Nurse (in S. Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, chor. Kirill Simonov), Soloist (in I. Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, chor. Edward Clug), the Girl (Donna Quixote, Part I, chor. Yan Malaki), and Soloist (8m68, chor. Robert Bondara).
For her performances as Juliet’s Nurse in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, Soloist in Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, and Margarita in Faust, she received a KVMT Catch the Wave award nomination in the category Ballet Artist of the Year (2021). Together with the entire KVMT Ballet Company, she was also awarded the Padėkos kaukė for the diptych of one-act dance performances Stabat Mater / The Rite of Spring, in which Verovka performs as a demi-soloist (Stabat Mater) and the principal soloist (The Rite of Spring).
A ballet artist unafraid of increasingly ambitious artistic challenges, Verovka finds time beyond her intensive performance schedule for dance pedagogy and choreographic creation. She works as a répétiteur with the KVMT Ballet Company, teaches classical dance to children at Baleto erdvė in Viktoria’s ballet class, gives modern dance lessons, and creates choreography for children. Since 2020, she has participated in the KVMT Ballet Company’s choreographic workshops Attention! Ballet, and in the annual programs of choreographic miniatures dedicated to International Dance Day, she has already presented 10 compositions in which she appeared not only as a choreographer but also as a performer, lighting designer, and costume designer. She also assisted in creating choreography for short dance films accompanying the latest Attention! Ballet program Klaipėda: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Klaipėda’s incorporation into Lithuania (2023). In 2022, she created choreography for the triptych of dance performances Donna Quixote (Part I), set to the music of Baroque composers. That same year, she participated in the 5th Kaunas Fluxus Festival (part of the Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022 program), presenting a live dance improvisation. In 2023, she created the choreography for the chamber version of G. Donizetti’s comic opera The Elixir of Love and performed the lead role of Adina herself, doubling the singer performing offstage. In 2025, she took part in the contemporary choreography project Hommage à Čiurlionis, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of M. K. Čiurlionis, creating the dance miniature Inner Glance inspired by Čiurlionis’s painting Serenity.
In 2025, she was nominated for the Padėkos kaukės awards (in the category Director of the Year) for the children’s dance performance How beautiful is Panama.
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