#TBT: Ekaterina Shipulina in “Raymonda” (2003)

#TBT: Ekaterina Shipulina in “Raymonda” (2003)

The Bolshoi Ballet’s Ekaterina Shipulina was promoted to principal rank in late 2011, after over 13 years of dancing with the company. Yet from the earliest days of her career, her performances revealed the makings of a leading ballerina. In this 2003 clip of...
#TBT: Noëlla Pontois in “Raymonda” (1983)

#TBT: Noëlla Pontois in “Raymonda” (1983)

Noëlla Pontois, the striking, lithe and fiercely technical former étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet, was renown for her interpretation of aristocratic roles in 19th-century ballets. In this 1983 performance from Rudolf Nureyev’s production of Raymonda, Pontois is...