Vasyl' Mykolayovych Verkhovynets' (1880 - 1938) was an

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

, conductor,

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

voice teacher A voice teacher or singing teacher is a musical instructor who assists adults and children in the development of their abilities in singing. Typical work A voice teacher works with a student singer to improve the various skills involved in singi ...

, amateur

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

, balletmaster,

choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...

and dance

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

He is credited for fundamentally altering the course of

Ukrainian dance ''Ukrainian dance'' ( uk, Український тaнeць, translit. ''Ukrainian 'tanets' '') mostly refers to the traditional folk dances of the Ukrainians as an ethnic group, but may also refer dance of the other ethnic groups within Ukrain ...

by devising a method of transcribing

dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

to paper, recording traditional dances and steps from numerous villages, setting dances on a

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, and fostering generations of Ukrainian dance researchers and practitioners. He was also the founder of the modern three-part ''

hopak Hopak ( uk, гопа́к, ) is a Ukrainian folk dance originating as a male dance among the Zaporozhian Cossacks, but later danced by couples, male soloists, and mixed groups of dancers. It is performed most often as a solitary concert dance by a ...

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

References

In English: * Shatulsky, Myron (1980). ''The Ukrainian Folk Dance'', Kobzar Publishing Co. Ltd. . * 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. Ukrainian male dancers Ukrainian dancers Dance teachers Ukrainian choreographers 1880 births 1938 deaths Ukrainian musicologists Ukrainian ethnographers Ukrainian music educators Folk dancers 20th-century musicologists Ukrainian folklorists {{dance-bio-stub