Ekaterina Shipulina

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.

In 1994 she went to the Moscow College of Choreography from which she graduated by 1998 and then joined Bolshoi Theatre same year.

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.