Ekaterina Shipulina Explained

Ekaterina Shipulina
Birth Date:14 November 1979
Birth Place:Perm, USSR
Occupation:ballet dancer
Current Group:Bolshoi Ballet

Ekaterina Valentinovna Shipulina (Russian: Екатерина Валентиновна Шипулина, born 14 November 1979[1]) is a Russian principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet and a People's Artist of Russia.[2]

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.[3] In 2011 she participated in Barton's play called Dumka.[4]

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Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dyukova, Lyudmila. Екатерина Шипулина. Маленькая Балетная Энциклопедия. ru.
  2. Web site: news feed for 26 March 2018. Bolshoi Theatre. 28 April 2018.
  3. Web site: Ekaterina Shipulina. Bolshoi Theatre. 29 June 2019.
  4. Reflections. Looseleaf, Victoria. Dance Magazine.
  5. Web site: Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 26 марта 2018 года № 118 . pravo.gov.ru . March 26, 2018.