Vasyl Verkhovynets
Deceased Person
1880 – 1938
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Who was Vasyl Verkhovynets?
Vasyl' Mykolayovych Verkhovynets' 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.
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