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Nikola Márová

Czech dancer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ12040928 ↗
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Nikola Márová (born June 24, 1980) is a Czech ballerina. Since 2006, she has been a principal dancer at the National Theatre in Prague.

Her role as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake earned her a Thalia Award in 2008. She is married to Alexander Katsapov, also a principal dancer at the National Theatre, and has a son.

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The public source identifies “Nikola Márová” as czech dancer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nikola, Márová and Czech.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2006, 2008—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1980-06-24, 1980-01-01—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nikola, Márová and Czech providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12040928. VIAF identifies the subject as 84229443. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 2006 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nikola Márová” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.