Paul Snider Paul Snider Paul Leslie Snider (April 15, 1951 – August 14, 1980) was a Canadian man who was one of the creators of the male stripping act the "Chippendales". He was the estranged husband and manager of "Playboy" model Dorothy Stratten, whom he raped and murdered the day he killed himself. Snider was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Jewish parents. By the mid-1970s, he was a night-club promoter and erstwhile pimp. In 1977, Snider met Dorothy Stratten at a Vancouver-area Dairy Queen, where she was working part-time while still attending high school, and romanced her. In 1979, he sent
Ukrainian dance Ukrainian folk-stage dance began the path to transforming into its present incarnation first and foremost through the work of Vasyl Verkhovynets (b. 1880, original surname Kostiv), an actor, choir conductor, and amateur musicologist. Verkhovynets had acquired a professional level of training in the arts as part of Mykola Sadovsky's theatrical troupe, which had itself incorporated a distinguished level of folk dance in its productions of dramas based on Ukrainian folk themes. While touring central Ukraine with the theatrical troupe, Verkhovynets' would take off whenever he could and visit the villages surrounding the cities he was performing in, in order to