- Vasyl Verkhovynets
Vasyl' Mykolayovych Verkhovynets' (1880 - 1938) was an
actor , conductor,voice teacher , amateurmusicologist ,balletmaster ,choreographer and danceethnographer He is credited for fundamentally altering the course ofUkrainian dance by devising a method of transcribingdance 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 , onJanuary 5 , 1880.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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