CONNECTION BETWEEN DANCE PLASTICS AND RELIGION

Abstract

The article examines the connection between dance plastics and religion, their influence and manifestation in people's lives. The authors of the article investigate the synthesis of interpretation of folk dance and religious trends, in the context of dance as a way of manifesting and expressing feelings through plastic, as well as its use in physiotherapy and psychotherapy. 
 Plastic therapy, as a new form of healing, originating from the time of the existence of mankind, has gained great popularity today.
 Revealing the inner potential of a person, working out at a deep spiritual and psycho-emotional level of various blocks of diseases and traumas accumulated during life, in our opinion, is healed through dance plastics. It is generally known that healing with fire, air, water, earth originates from ancient beliefs such as paganism, Tengrism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Vedas and others.
 Despite the fact that the interweaving of dance plastics and breathing exercises allows for therapy, integrates new possibilities and techniques in medical practice, the authors of the article consider its application only in the field of non-traditional use techniques, which has gained great popularity in our time.
 Dance therapy, being one of the topics of the evoked discourse among professionals and representatives of alternative medicine, mental therapy determined the relevance of this study. Expanding the concept of "plastic therapy", the authors turn to the analysis of each term, reflecting the method of deductive research. The definition of "plastic therapy" means the presence of a plastic and semantic expression of feelings. In this case, the body is an instrument and acts as a conductor of feelings, and movements and plastic play the role of a "meditative" means through which spiritual and physical healing is achieved. Dance, as a form of sacred art, continues to develop, and finds application in new forms and manifestations.
 The results of the study provide an opportunity to apply the concept of "plastic therapy" in the theory of choreographic art, as a form of creating an interpretation of dance synthesis and psychotherapy.