Ballet theater as an objective of critical re-evaluation in modern Ukraine

Abstract

Purpose of the research is to analyze the current state of the system of critical interpretation of the phenomena of the ballet theater in Ukraine. Methodology. The application of the methods of analysis and synthesis, the chronological principle of consideration of events made it possible to conduct a scientifically objective study. Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the identification of the problems of contemporary criticism of the ballet theater in Ukraine. Conclusions. Traditions of critical reflection on the events of ballet art, laid in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, supported and developed during the Soviet era, continued in the post-Soviet period in Ukraine. There are the following main problems of criticism of the ballet in modern Ukraine: a small number of critical-evaluative publications on ballet art; lack of professional critics of choreographic art, who know the history of domestic and world ballet and understand its development; the advantage of annotation-advertising over analytical and interpretative statements in periodicals; fragmented coverage of events; the absence of a specialized periodical on choreography; low aestheticphilological level of the latest Internet forms of ballet criticism (forums, blogs, etc.). The address of scientists to the problems of critical interpretation of the ballet theater will contribute to a comprehensive analysis of the critical-evaluation sphere of choreographic art, and in its turn, will positively affect the development of choreology.