Yekaterina Shipulina

Ekaterina Valentinovna Shipulina (, born 14 November 1979 ) is a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet and a People's Artist of Russia.

Biography

Shipulina was born to a ballet family in Perm, Russia where she also went to Perm Choreographic College in 1989. In 1994 she went to the Moscow College of Choreography from which she graduated by 1998 and then joined Bolshoi Theatre same year. In 1999 she won second place at the International Ballet Competition in Luxembourg and got the same place in 2001 in Moscow. In 2004 she was awarded with the Soul of Dance prize by the Ballet magazine and the same year played a role of Kitri in Don Quixote. During the same year she also participated in both Symphony in C and Magrittomania where was a soloist and played a role of Aegina in Spartacus. In 2005 she joined John Neumeier's A Midsummer Night's Dream where she played a role of Hermia. Later on, she redid the same Symphony in 2008 and participated in the Christopher Wheeldon's Misericordes. Prior to all of it, in 2001 she played in Yuri Grigorovich's adaptation of the Swan Lake called Three Swans and next year did the same in a play called Odette-Odile which was another adaptation. In 2011 she participated in Barton's play called Dumka.

Repertoire Giselle Giselle, Myrtha The Little Humpbacked Horse — Little Humpbacked Horse Don Quixote — Kitri, Dryad The Sleeping Beauty — Lilac fairy, Gold fairy The Pharaoh's Daughter — Congo River La Bayadère — Gamzatti, Shade Swan Lake — Odette - Odile Raymonda — Henriette Les Sylphides Notre-Dame de Paris — Esmeralda Spartacus — Aegina A Midsummer Night's Dream — Hermia Cinderella — Cinderella La Légende de l'amour — Mekhmene Banu Le Corsaire — Medora, Gulnare Flames of Paris — Jeanne La Esmeralda Illusions perdues — Florine

Awards 2009: Merited Artist of the Russian Federation 2018: People's Artist of Russia