Vasyl Verkhovynets was a Soviet choreographer, born in 1880 in Staryi Mizun, who died in 1938.
Biography
Vasyl Mykolayovych Verkhovynets' (Ukrainian: Василь Верховинець; 18 January 1880 - 11 April 1938) was an actor, conductor, composer, voice teacher, amateur musicologist, balletmaster, choreographer and dance ethnographer from Galicia. 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.
Contemporaries
Lyubov Blok
Russian actor, choreographer and music critic (1881-1939)
Maximilian Steinberg
Russian composer (1883-1946)
Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich
Soviet aircraft designer (1883–1938)
Vasily Tikhomirov
Russian ballet dancer (1876–1956)
Reinhold Glière
Soviet Ukrainian composer (1875–1956)
Fyodor Lopukhov
ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher and writer
Nikolai Tcherepnin
Russian composer (1873–1945)
Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky
Russian choreographer (1871–1924)
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