Born and trained in the Ukraine, Dvorovenko joined ABT in 1996; she has been a principal dancer since 2000. In this season's repertory, she danced in Kevin McKenzie's pas de deux from Act II of Swan Lake.
She will miss the company's national tour, which includes stops in Texas, Ohio, Chicago, and Washington, D.C, and the 2005 Metropolitan Opera House season, but plans to resume dancing next September.