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About Vladimir Stepanov
Vladimir Ivanovich Stepanov (1866–1896), was a dancer at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg. His book, The Alphabet of Movements of the Human Body was published in Paris in 1892. The book describes a notation that encodes dance movements using musical notes instead of pictographs or abstract symbols. Stepanov breaks complex movements down to elementary moves made by individual body parts, enciphering these basic moves as notes. This method of dance notation, improved by Alexander Gorsky, notated many ballets from choreographer Marius Petipa. Today, this method is preserved in the Harvard University Library Theatre Collection and is known as the Sergeyev Collection.
Everything about Vladimir Stepanov →- Occupation
- choreographer, ballet dancer, dancer
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- June 17, 1866, June 29, 1866
- Died
- January 16, 1896, January 28, 1896