Development of methods and concepts of sports ballroom dances in the conditions of distance learning in Ukraine during 2010s — early 2020s

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to comprehend the experience of interactive distance learning with sports ballroom dance through the prism of the culturological approach through the development of the tournament-training process and finding out the place and role of this type of choreography in modern Ukrainian culture.
 The metodology. The research methodology is based on a culturological approach. Traditional methods of art history are used — description, observation, systematization of facts, statistical method is also used.
 The results. Modern information technologies in combination with coaching experience allow to save students’, club, local choreographic culture even in martial law, if you practice meaningful dancing. New realities even expand the possibilities of technical self-improvement and development of creative potential, shifting attention to the theoretical foundations of dance and tournament practice. At the same time, in the conditions of suspension of the usual dance life, the dominance of socializing and hedonistic functions of sports ballroom choreography at the expense of others — cognitive, aesthetic, regulatory, semiotic, communicative — was revealed.
 The scientific novelty. The author’s system experience of interactive distance learning in sports ballroom dancing was highlighted and analyzed, the functions of sports ballroom dancing are specified, in particular club-tournament activity in the formation of personality. Motivation to dance depending on the age of students is determined. Prospects for the development of the training process are outlined, taking into account the experience of distance learning.
 The practical significance. The experience of distance learning in the new conditions of 2010s — early 2020s in Ukraine opens the way to improve the concept of this sport, the practice of both group and individual classes by fundamentalizing and understanding this activity in the broader dimensions of the cultural process. Some provisions of the article can be used in educational and special courses in ballroom choreography, theory and methods of dance sports, pedagogy, history of Ukrainian culture.