NATIVE POLISSIA: ART AND CHOREOGRAPHY

Abstract

Ukrainian dance has a long history. Throughout historical and cultural times, Ukrainian culture has maintained song and dance traditions that embody regional and local peculiarities of dance production and performance. They are also exemplified by song and dance performances in Polissia. Particular attention was paid to this national cultural and artistic sphere during the period of independence. The best examples of national choreographic art are recognized all over the world. However, time has not stopped, and today these dances are filled with new elements, features, and characteristics, acquiring a new quality in the time of global cultural and leisure innovations. Today, the trends in the development of national dance have become guiding in terms of choreographic theory and practice, primarily the figurative world of dance, which is interpreted by scholars at the level of a “fresh” scientific gap – choreology. It reproduces the latest, including regional nuances in the presentation of the dance image. The purpose of this study is to reveal the main trends in the art of choreography that are inherent in its national content and form, and especially in Polissia, with the identification of individualized characteristics and qualitative and quantitative indicators that highlight the local features of dance, considered in the context of the development of the language of choreography. The research methodology is based on both general logical and general scientific principles, approaches, methods developed in the field of cultural studies, as well as approaches and methods that are important in the system of choreology and choreography, and contribute to the full disclosure of the research topic, – on the historical, cultural and comparative, semiotic and hermeneutical levels, which allows for a systematic mastery of modern scientific and popular science approaches to the study of dance as a cultural phenomenon, as a subject of ethnography, ethnochoreology, etc. The conclusions of the study demonstrate its relevance in the time of integration of traditional Ukrainian dance, in particular in Polissia, with the best world models; highlight the relationship between the traditional local aspects of its historical and cultural genesis, considered at the level of ethnography, mental choreography, and modernizations in its content and form, expressed in the totality of its individualized regional images.