Ekaterina Shushakova is a Moscow-born dance artist, performer, choreographer, and teacher working internationally. She began her formal training at the Ledyah State Ballet School and continued at the Contemporary Dance School of Nikolai Ogryzkov. At seventeen, she relocated to the Netherlands to study at Codarts Rotterdam Dance Academy, where she was awarded the Scholarship of Excellence. With over fifteen years of professional experience, Shushakova has performed with leading contemporary dance companies including Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, GöteborgsOperan Danskompani, and Ballet Basel. Her artistic practice has been shaped through collaborations with internationally acclaimed choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Dimitris Papaioannou, Saburo Teshigawara, Sharon Eyal, Bobbi Jene Smith, Marina Mascarell, Boris Charmatz, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Anton Lachky, Stijn Celis, Hiroaki Umeda, Fabrice Mazliah, Erna Ómarsdóttir, Halla Ólafsdóttir, and Alia Luque. From 2017 to 2023, she was a permanent member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, performing principal roles in seminal works including The Rite of Spring, Café Müller, Kontakthof, Vollmond, Nelken, Palermo Palermo, Masurca Fogo, Orpheus und Eurydike, Blaubart, and 1980, among others. This period deeply informed her embodied research and long-term engagement with repertory preservation, performative memory, and transmission. In parallel to stage work, Shushakova has expanded her practice into dance film, collaborating with director Samantha Shay on the short films Romance and Table for One, Please, and appearing in A Moth on a Bomb by Oleg Stepanov. She currently focuses on teaching, mentoring, and the development of her own choreographic projects, engaging in international collaborations that bridge performance, movement research, and interdisciplinary creation.