Iryna Horoshko
{{family name hatnote|Matviyenko|Horoshko|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Iryna Horoshko
| native_name = {{nobold|Ірина Матвієнко}}
| native_name_lang = uk
| birth_name = Iryna Matviyenko Horoshko
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1953|11|28|df=y}}
| birth_place = Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|01|27|1953|11|28|df=y}}
| death_place = Samar, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
| occupation = {{Plainlist|
- Choreographer
- Dancer
}}
| awards = Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR
}}
Iryna Matviyenko Horoshko ({{langx|uk|Ірина Григорівна Матвієнко}}; 28 November 1953 - 27 January 2018) was a Ukrainian choreographer and dancer. She was the artistic director of the folk dance ensemble "Nadzbruchanka" of the {{ill|Ternopil Regional Philharmonic|ru|Тернопольская областная филармония|uk|Тернопільська обласна філармонія}} and led the Beaumonde contemporary dance studio (then "Inspiration") at the {{ill|Dvorets Kultury Metallurgov|ru|Дворец культуры металлургов (Донецк)|uk|Палац культури металургів (Донецьк)}}. Horoshko was a recipient of the Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
Early life and education
Horoshko was born in the city of Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine on 28 November 1953.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Turkevych|first=Vasyl Dmytrovych|title=Матвієнко Ірина Григорівна|trans-title=Matvienko Iryna Grigorivna|url=https://esu.com.ua/article-66868|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine|publisher=NASU Institute of Encyclopaedic Research|location=Kyiv, Ukraine|language=uk|date=December 2018|access-date=13 May 2025}}{{cite web|last=Niedzielska|first=Nina|title=Ірина Матвієнко: танцюю – значить існую|trans-title=Iryna Matvienko: I dance, so I exist|url=https://www.dnipro.libr.dp.ua/matwienko_irina_grigoriwna|publisher=Regional Universal Scientific Library named after the First Teachers of the Slavs Cyril and Methodius|language=uk|date=16 July 2021|access-date=13 May 2025}} She was the child of the metallurgists Grigory Ignatovich Hnatovych and Alexandra Andreevna Matvienko. Horoshko was educated at the ZZSO No. 4 secondary school and later at the {{ill|Dnipropetrovsk State College of Theatre and Arts|ru|Днепропетровский государственный театрально-художественный колледж|uk|Дніпровський театрально-художній коледж}}.{{cite news|title=«Вона не забувала жодного з сотень своїх учнів»|trans-title="She never forgot any of her hundreds of students"|url=https://nmsk.org.ua/novosti/19401-vona-ne-zabuvala-zhodnogo-z-soten-svo%D1%97x-uchniv.html|work=Information portal of Novomoskovskaya|language=uk|date=23 March 2018|access-date=13 May 2025}} She graduated from the college with honours in 1973.{{cite encyclopedia|editor-last=Yavorskyi|editor-first=Hennadi Ivanovich|editor-link=Hennadiy Yavorskyi|last=Spring|first=X.|title=Горошко Ірина|trans-title=Goroshko Iryna|encyclopedia=Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary|url=http://irbis.library.te.ua/cgi-bin/irbis64r_15/cgiirbis_64.exe?LNG=uk&C21COM=2&I21DBN=ELKKN&P21DBN=ELKKN&Z21ID=&Image_file_name=TEC_1%2Epdf&IMAGE_FILE_DOWNLOAD=1|year=2004|volume=1: A — J|publisher={{ill|Zbruch (publisher)|lt=Zbruch|uk|Збруч (видавництво)}}|page=404|language=uk|isbn=966-528-197-6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222133817/http://irbis.library.te.ua/cgi-bin/irbis64r_15/cgiirbis_64.exe?LNG=uk&C21COM=2&I21DBN=ELKKN&P21DBN=ELKKN&Z21ID=&Image_file_name=TEC_1%2Epdf&IMAGE_FILE_DOWNLOAD=1|archive-date=22 December 2015|access-date=13 May 2025|url-status=dead}} Horoskho later studied an art diploma at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture under the tutelage of O. Aseev and Lyudmyla Milyayeva from 1978 to 1982.
Career
When she was nine years old, she began her dancing career at the Shevchenko Palace of Culture ballet school. Its head, Anna Dmitrievna Krasovskaya, commended Horoshko. She joined the ballet studio of the Palace of Culture named after Gonchar in 1964 under the tutelage of Larisa Petrovna Kyrylenko and later Bohdan Stanislavovich Ivanytskyi. Horoshko performed solo roles in The Fly-Tsokotukha and The Snow Queen. She was invited to perform in the dance ensemble of the {{ill|Transcarpathian Honoured Academic Folk Choir|ru|Закарпатский народный хор|rue|Закарпатскый народный хор|uk|Заслужений академічний Закарпатський народний хор}} before her parents sent her to the Dnipropetrovsk State College of Theatre and Arts. In 1973, Horoshko joined the folk dance ensemble "Nadzbruchanka" of the {{ill|Ternopil Regional Philharmonic|ru|Тернопольская областная филармония|uk|Тернопільська обласна філармонія}},{{cite web|title=Академічний ансамбль танцю «Надзбручанка»|trans-title=Academic Dance Ensemble "Nadzbruchanka"|url=https://filarmony.te.ua/collective/5/|publisher={{ill|Ternopil Oblast Philharmonic|ru|Тернопольская областная филармония|uk|Тернопільська обласна філармонія}}|language=uk|access-date=13 May 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127035204/https://filarmony.te.ua/collective/5/|archive-date=27 January 2019|url-status=dead}} serving as its artistic director, and she was managed under the direction of choreographer {{ill|Oleksandr Danichkin|uk|Данічкін Олександр Володимирович}}. She had solo roles in miniatures such as Podolyanochka, Petrus, Nadzbruchanka, Gandzia and Ternopil Wedding. Horoshko tourned across most of the Soviet Union at venues such as Palace "Ukraine" and the State Kremlin Palace as well as countries such as Bulgaria, Czechslovakia, Germany and Romania.
She and her husband worked at the Medobory collective and were involved in emi-classical, flamenco and tap choreography between 1988 and 1990. In 1990, Horoshko returned to Novomoskovsk and accepted the offer of leading the Beaumonde contemporary dance studio (then "Inspiration") at the {{ill|Dvorets Kultury Metallurgov|ru|Дворец культуры металлургов (Донецк)|uk|Палац культури металургів (Донецьк)}}. She staged more than sixty of her own concerts and achieved victories in over 50 festivals and competitions across Ukraine and abroad. Horoshko continued working with her students until November 2017.
Personal life and recognition
She married the choreographer Anatoly Goroshka in 1972. There was one child of the marriage. In 2017, Horoshko was diagnosed with cancer and continued to work through the illness. She died on 27 January 2018 in Samar, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Horoshko was buried at Maryanovsky cemetery in Samar.
In 1985, she was awarded the Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR "for high performing skills, the creation of highly artistic images, performances, and films that have become part of the national cultural and artistic heritage."{{cite web|title=аслужені артисти України - Тернопільська область|trans-title=Honored Artists of Ukraine - Ternopil region|url=http://irp.te.ua/ternopil-shhy-na-zasluzheni-arty-sty-ukrayiny/|publisher={{ill|Ternopil Regional Universal Scientific Library|uk|Тернопільська обласна універсальна наукова бібліотека}}|language=uk|date=8 September 2016|access-date=13 May 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211110950/http://irp.te.ua/ternopil-shhy-na-zasluzheni-arty-sty-ukrayiny/|archive-date=11 February 2019|url-status=dead}}