Ucrainica at Harvard
The Ukrainian Research Institute's 25th-Anniversary Exhibition at Houghton Library, Harvard University
The Ukrainian Research Institute's 25th-Anniversary Exhibition at Houghton Library, Harvard University
49. Vasyl Verkhovynets' (pseudonym of Vasyl' Kostiv, 1880-1938)
Teoriia narodnoho ukrains'koho tanka
(Theory of the Ukrainian Folk Dance)
Verkhovynets' (1880-1938) chaired the Department of Fine Art at the Poltava Institute of People's Education from 1919 to 1932. He is the author of the first Ukrainian ethnochoreographic textbooks, including Ukrains'ki narodni tantsi (Ukrainian Folk Dances, 1913), and Teoriia narodnoho ukrains'koho tanka (1919). Prysidy are performed by male dancers. The dance step involves kicks done from a squatting position.
Gift of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, October 1978.