Vladimir Ivanovich Stepanov

Russian dancer

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In dance notation: The Romantic period (late 18th–late 19th century)
…such system was developed by Vladimir Ivanovich Stepanov, a dancer of the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg; it was published in Paris with the title Alphabet des mouvements du corps humain (1892; Alphabet of Movements of the Human Body). Stepanov’s method was based on an anatomical analysis of movement and…
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In dance: Prominent notation methods
…of the Human Body”), by Vladimir Stepanov, a dancer at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Stepanov’s system was used to record many ballets in the Mariinsky’s repertoire; the recordings were the basis of subsequent reconstructions of those ballets by the Sadler’s Wells Ballet in London.
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