Creating an Artistic Image in Sports Ballroom Dance

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to identify the specific features of creating an artistic image in sports ballroom dancing based on an art criticism analysis of its sign symbolic flexible system.Research methodology. The method of artistic and stylistic analysis was applied, which helped to identify and substantiate the leading trends in sports ballroom dance in the early twentieth century; typological method (for analyzing the interpretation of an artistic image in choreography); semiotic method (for the study of sports ballroom dance as a unique symbolic system); cognitive method (to justify the uniqueness of the artistic image in sports ballroom dance, the specific features of the sublimation of artistic thinking and the figurative vision of dancers); a method of aesthetic and art history analysis, which helped to identify the artistic and philosophical and aesthetic vector of understanding sports ballroom dance.Results. The study reveals that the artistic image in sports ballroom dance is manifested in its emotional fullness, substantial character and expressive-graphic elements. Each dance of the European and Latin American program has its own drama, defining the angle of disclosing the image of the couple, the corresponding pace, rhythmic and melodic structure, character and technique of movement. Current trends in sports ballroom dance show the synthesis of reality and dance in artistic images — in accordance with the specific character of this type of choreography, the artistic image is a natural continuation of ballroom dance, the relationship between a man and a woman dominating in it, which are expressed by unique means of choreographic expression, due to a characteristic feature of dance vocabulary.Novelty. An art history analysis of the artistic, aesthetic and symbolic aspects of sports ballroom dance has been carried out; the features of creating an artistic image in accordance with the specific features of the sign symbolic flexible system of sports ballroom dancing are revealed.The practical significance. Information which is given in this article can become useful the Ukrainian experts and people on the ground of art in the context of involving it to educational and scientific appeal.