Discipline “Choreographic Criticism” in the System of Training of Dance Art Specialist in Higher Education Institutions in Ukraine

• Main Author: Alina Pidlypska
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: KNUKiM Publishing Centre 2018-05-01
• Series: Танцювальні студії
• Subjects: танцювальна критика; хореографія; критика хореографії; вища освіта в україні
• Online Access: http://dancestudios.knukim.edu.ua/article/view/142014
• ISSN: 2616-7646; 2617-3786

The aim of the study is to justify the appropriateness of teaching and to offer a substantive content of the discipline “Criticism of Choreography” in the system of preparation of dance art specialist in institutions of higher education in Ukraine. Research methods. Taking into account the applied nature of the presented work, in addition to the theoretical analysis of the source base, systematization of empirical material, the discipline “Criticism of Choreography” was conceptualized. The scientific novelty consists in analyzing the current state of dance criticism in Ukraine and the world, outlining the content-thematic circle of the discipline “Criticism of Choreography” in the system of training a specialist in dance art in institutions of higher education in Ukraine. Conclusions. The main task of dance criticism is the search for adequate formulations in the expression of the critically-appraising attitude to the phenomena of modern choreography, where the illogical composition structure, nonlinear development of the plot, the departure from the canonical vocabulary requires the formation of a new critical lexicon, new artistic and aesthetic landmarks in the assessment. In conditions of low verbal activity of practitioners of choreographic art, the introduction of the discipline “Criticism of Choreography” into the system of training dance art specialists in institutions of higher education in Ukraine can become one of the effective mechanisms for deepening awareness in the field of critically evaluated activity. Within the discipline  it is rational to consider three thematic blocks: the methodological (artistic critique as an aesthetic category, the features of the artistic critical examination of the phenomena of the choreographic culture of our time), the historical (the development and development of ballet criticism in accordance with the main stages of the development of the ballet theater, Russian and Soviet, Ukrainian ballet schools), application (considering specific examples of basic forms, objects, genres, stylistics and composition of critical performances of the choreographic theme, the semantic components of the review, a critical article).