Ekaterina Shipulina

Biography

Born in Perm to the family of dancers. In 1989, Yekaterina Shipulina entered the Perm Choreographic College. In 1994, she continued her education at the Moscow College of Choreography (today the Moscow Choreographic Academy). Having graduated in 1998, she joined the Bolshoi Theatre. From 2022 she is working under the contract.
She was training under Marina Kondratieva and Tatiana Golikova. Today her teacher-repetiteur is Nadezhda Gracheva.

Repertoire

1998
Grand Pas (La Bayadere. Yuri Grigorovich production)

1999
Friend to Giselle (Giselle. Vladimir Vasiliev production)
Horse, Tsar-Maiden (The Humpbacked Horse. Music by Rodion Shchedrin. Nikolai Androsov production)
Mazur (Chopiniana)
Queen of the Ball (Fantasy on the Casanova Theme to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mikhail Lavrovsky production)
Dryad/Three Dryads, 2^nd variation Grand Pas, Queen of the Dryads (Don Quixote. Alexei Fadeyechev production)

2000
'Two pairs' in Part 3 (Symphony in C)
The Wife of the Heir (Russian Hamlet to music by Ludwig Van Beethoven and Gustav Mahler. Boris Eifman сreation )
Fairy of Gold, Lilac Fair (The Sleeping Beauty. Yuri Grigorovich production)
Congo (La Fille du Pharaon. Production by Pierre Lacotte after Marius Petipa) — creation
2^nd variation in Raimonda’ Dreams (Raimonda. Yuri Grigorovich production)
2^nd variation in The Shadows (La Bayadere)

2001
Myrtha (Giselle)
Polish Bride, Swan/Three Swans (Swan Lake. Yuri Grigorovich production)
Gamzatti (La Bayadere)

2002
Odette-Odile (Swan Lake)

2003
Ballerina (The Bright Stream. Music by Dmitry Shostakovich. Alexei Ratmansky production)
Henriette (Raimonda)
Esmeralda (Notre-Dame de Paris. Rolan Petit production)
Prelude and 7^th Waltz (Chopiniana)

2004
Kitri (Don Quixote)
Pas de deux (Agon)
Soloist Part 4 (Symphony in C)
Leading Soloist (Magrittomania. Music by Yuri Krasavin. Yuri Possokhov production) — creation at Bolshoi Theatre
Aegina (Spartacus)

2005
Hermia (A Midnight’s Summer Dream. John Neumeier production)
Action (Les Presages to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Choreography by Leonide Massine) — creation in Russia
Soloist (Jeu de cards. Music by Igor Stravinsky. Alexei Ratmansky creation)

2006
Title role (Cinderella. Yuri Possokhov and Yuri Borisov production)

2007
Soloist (In the Upper Room. Music by Philip Glass, choreography by Twyla Tharp) — was among the creators of this ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre
Mekhmene Banu (Arif Melikov’s A Legend of Love; Yuri Grigorovich production)
Gulnare (Le Corsaire. Production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka after Marius Petipa) — creator of the role
Class Concert (Music by different composers. Choreography by Asaf Messerer)

2008
Soloist (Misericordes to music by Arvo Part. Christopher Wheeldon creation)
Soloist Part 1 (Symphony in C)
Jeanne (Boris Asfiev’s The Flames of Paris. Production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky after Vasily Vainonen)
Variation (Paquita. Staging and new choreographic version by Yuri Burlaka) — was among the creators of the ballet
Couple in Green (was among the creators of this ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre), Couple in Yellow (Russian Seasons. Music by Leonid Desyatnikov, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky)

2009
Medora (Le Corsaire) — debuted on the Bolshoi Ballet tour to USA

2010
Soloist in Rubies (Part II of Jewels to music by I. Stransky, choreography by G. Balanchine) — creation at the Bolshoi Theatre
The part in Serenade by P. Tchaikovsky (choreography by G. Balanchine)

2011
Fleur de Lys (C. Pugni’s Esmeralda, choreography by M. Petipa, staging and new choreographic version by Y. Burlaka and V. Medvedev)
Florine (L. Desyatnikov’s Lost Illusions, choreography by A. Ratmansky)
Part in Chroma (music by Joby Talbot and Jack White, choreography by W. McGregor) — among the creators at the Bolshoi Theatre

2012
Two Couples in Emeralds (Part I of Jewels, music by G. Faure, choreography by G. Balanchine)
Soloist (Dream of Dream to music by S. Pakhmaninov, choreography by J. Elo) — creation

2013
Giselle (Giselle in the version by Y. Grigorovich, then in Vasiliev’s version)
Marchesa Sampietri (Marco Spada to music by D.-F.-E. Auber, P. Lacotte's production)

2014
Manon Lescaut (Lady of the Camellias to music by F. Chopin, choreography by J. Neumeier)

2015
Undine in Taman part (A Hero of Our Time by I. Demutsky, choreography by Y. Possokhov, director K. Serebrennikov) — creation

2016
The Leading Couple (Frank Bridge Variations to music by Benjamin Britten, choreography by H. van Manen ) – creation at the Bolshoi Theatre

2017
Couple in Black (Forgotten Land to music by B. Britten, choreography by J. Kylián) — appeared in the opening night performance
The Diva (Nureyev by I. Demutsky, choreography by Y. Possokhov, director K. Serebrennikov)

2018
Carmen (Carmen Suite to music by G. Bizet and R. Shchedrin; choreography by A. Alonso)
Dolly (Anna Karenina to music by P. Tchaikovsky, A. Shnitke, Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam, choreography by J. Neumeier)
Aspicia (La Fille du Pharaon)
Myrtha (Giselle, A. Ratmansky's version)