Theoretical Concepts in the Practice of the Soviet Ukraine Ballet Criticism in Late 1920S (original) (raw)

INTRODUCTION A holistic understanding of any kind of art is impossible without the study of its criticism, because the unity of theory, history and criticism is the key to the existence of art disciplines, including ballet knowledge. The fundamental studies of the Ukrainian prominent ballet scholars (L. Dolokhova, M. Zahaikevych, Yu. Stanishevskyi, A. Chepalov, etc.) are based on artistic criticism of various historical periods. The aforementioned authors themselves made a lot of efforts to develop the art-critical discourse of Ukraine. However, Ukrainian ballet criticism has not yet become the subject of a special study. The transformation of the social and cultural sphere of Ukraine at the end of the XXth and beginning of the XXIst centuries, the collapse of the totalitarian Soviet regime, opening access to previously classified archival materials, changing value orientations made it possible to objectively reproduce the panorama of the ballet criticism development in Ukraine. The...