Vasyl Verkhovynets, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vasyl Verkhovynets

Ukrainian ethnographer

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1880

Place of Birth: Staryi Mizun, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 11-Apr-1938

Profession: choreographer, anthropologist, dancer, ethnographer, musicologist, music pedagogue

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Vasyl' Mykolayovych Verkhovynets' (1880 - 1938) was an actor, conductor, composer, 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.