Vasyl Verkhovynets

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Vasyl' Mykolayovych Verkhovynets' (1880 - 1938) was an actor, conductor, voice teacher, amateur musicologist, balletmaster, choreographer and dance ethnographer He is credited for fundamentally altering the course of Ukrainian dance by devising a method of transcribing dance to paper, recording traditional dances and steps from numerous villages, setting dances on a stage, and fostering generations of Ukrainian dance researchers and practitioners. He was also the founder of the modern three-part hopak.

Vasyl' Verkhovynets' was born "Vasyl' Kostiv" in Myzun, on January 5, 1880.

[edit] References

In English:

  • Shatulsky, Myron (1980). The Ukrainian Folk Dance, Kobzar Publishing Co. Ltd. ISBN 0-9692078-5-9.
  • Zerebecky, Bohdan (1985). Ukrainian Dance Resource Booklets, Series I-IV, Ukrainian Canadian Committee, Saskatchewan Provincial Council.

In Ukrainian:

  • Avramenko, Vasyl (1947). Ukrainian National Dances, Music, and Costumes, National Publishers, Ltd.
  • Humeniuk, Andriy (1962). Ukrainian Folk Dance, Academy of Sciences Ukrainian of the SSR.
  • Humeniuk, Andriy (1963). Folk Choreographic Art of Ukraine, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
  • Verkhovynets’, Vasyl’ (1912). Ukrainian Wedding.
  • Verkhovynets’, Vasyl’(1919). Theory of Ukrainian Folk Dance.
  • Verkhovynets’, Vasyl’ (1925). Vesnyanochka State Publishers of the Ukraine.
  • Verkhovynets’, Yaroslav (1963). Biographical outline of Vasyl' Verkhovynets' in the third edition of Theory of Ukrainian Folk Dance, State Publishers of Pictorial Art and Musical Literature.
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