Nikola Márová is the principal dancer of Czech National Ballet. An elegant dancer, whose brilliant technique and convincing acting skills have destined her for leading roles in the classical repertoire such as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, or Nikiya in La Bayadère, as well as dramatic heroines in lavish neoclassical titles, including Tatiana from the ballet Onegin, Juliet from John Cranko's ballet Romeo and Juliet, or Blanche DuBois from the dramatic ballet A Streetcar Named Desire choreographed by John Neumeier. She moves with the same confidence and grace in choreographies by modern and contemporary creators.
She was born in Prague, where she started taking ballet lessons at the age of six in the Preparatory school of the National Theatre in Prague. She graduated from Dance Conservatory in Prague and also completed two study internships in Dresden.
Since 1998, she has been a member of Czech National Ballet in Prague, was promoted as a soloist in 2001, and later on as a principal dancer in 2006. She is a two-time recipient of the Thalia Award for the role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake and the Mother in The Rite of Spring by Glen Tetley, for which she also received the Opera Plus Award in 2018. From the Actors' Association, she has received a total of 12 nominations throughout her career. In 2003, she was awarded the Philip Morris Ballet Flower Award for the best Czech Dancer Award. For several consecutive years, she has been awarded by audiences as the most popular Czech dancer.
She has guest performed on many domestic and international ballet stages, e.g., Finnish National Ballet (Swan Lake), Taiwan (The Lady of the Camellias), Slovak National Theatre (Swan Lake), National Theatre Brno (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Don Quixote), and National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava (Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle).
She has participated in several international tours in the USA, Japan, Germany, Spain, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Malta, Russia, and China.
2024, Poslední pirueta Nikoly Márové
2024, Z archivu osobností
2024, Jsem rebel, ne víla!
2024, Ve Stavovském divadle u primabaleríny Nikoly Márové
2024, Je tanec pro každého?
2023, Je to jako droga...
2023, Primabalerína má dva životy
2023, Balet se nedá dělat bez pokory
2022, Česká televize, premiéra dokumentu Portrét primabaleríny
2022, dokument České televize, režie Martin Kubala
2022, video
2021, Rozhovor v pořadu Nový den
2021, Baví mě sledovat nadšení a pokroky mých studentů
2021, Česká televize
2020, Zlatá kaplička pro mě znamená něco, co mi nikdo nevymaže
2020, ČT Art
2019, Není den, kdy by mě nic nebolelo
2019, s prvním sólistou Adamem Zvonařem
2019, Život tanečníka je nádherný a stojí za to tančit na jevišti
2019, s prvním sólistou Adamem Zvonařem
2019
2018, dokument o prvních sólistkách Baletu ND, režie Igor Zacharov
2017, Soutěživost by mě zničila, přesto vždycky vím, za čím jdu
2016, V Číně jsme se lekli, že se jim vystoupení nelíbí
2016
2015, Choreografie Petr Zuska, Nikola v roli Královny Mab
2015, Nechci roli jen hrát, ale opravdu ji prožít
2015
2014, Dokument České televize o přípravách inscenace, režie Renata Šáchová
2011, Baletky nejsou žádné fanatičky
2011, Jak se žije na špičkách?
2009, Nejdůležitější je umět vypnout
2009, Pražská sólistka „zaskočila“ ve finském Labutím jezeře
2008
2003, Udělení Philip Morris Ballet Flower Award
Swan Lake — Odette/Odile
Sleeping Beauty — Aurora
Romeo and Juliet — Juliet
Onegin — Tatiana, Olga
Don Quijote — Kitri
La Bayadère — Nikiya
Giselle — Giselle, Myrtha
The Nutcracker — Clara
Raymonda — Raymonda
La Sylphide — La Sylphide
La Fille mal gardée — Lise
Cinderella — Cinderella, Stepmother
Taming of the Shrew — Bianca
Streetcar Named Desire — Blanche DuBois
Valmont — Marchioness de Merteuil
Causa Carmen — M
The Little Mermaid — The Witch
The Snow Queen — The Snow Queen