Academic literature on the topic 'Fine Art ; Dance ; Choreography'

The system of artistic and aesthetic education with the help of various arts, elevation of rhythm and choreography in a bright pedagogical theory and practice was laid in the early 20's of the XX century. All the accumulated experience in this field contributed to the improvement of the content of choreographic training and led to the process of separating professional art education from amateur and the creation of appropriate educational institutions for children. Choreographic creativity is one of the means of comprehensive development of students studying at the school of arts. Performing cognitive and educational functions, choreographic art is inseparable from its aesthetic function: choreography lessons promote the development of visual, auditory and motor forms of sensory and emotional perception of the world. Students learn to convey the movements of the various nature of music, its dynamics, tempo, to change the movement in connection with the change of parts of a piece of music, to begin with the beginning of music. The success of artistic and aesthetic education of children by means of choreography is due to the synthesizing nature of choreography, which combines music, rhythm, dance, fine arts, theater and plastic movements. The educational program for the specialty «Choreography» (today) is designed for eight years of study. Choreographic training of students of the choreographic department includes the following profile disciplines: classical dance, folk-stage dance, modern pop dance, gymnastics. Elective disciplines can also be chosen: historical and everyday dance, concert number staging, sports and ballroom dancing, duet dance. Related subjects: drawing, music, art history. The basis of the content of teaching choreographic art, regardless of the type and genre of choreography, is the involvement of students in active motor activity, which by nature is divided into: executive, improvisational, creative [development potential]. Students have the opportunity to realize themselves in the creative laboratories of art schools - choreographic groups and ensembles.

Background. One of the typical trends of modern musicology is the increasing interest in the problem of components dialogue in the synthetic forms of art. In the context of this global topic, the issue of music and choreography interaction in the stage dances of musical theater productions of the 17th – the first half of the 18th century is of particular interest. The connection of music and choreography in the art of stage dance of the 17th – the first half of the 18th century appears as a kind of continuation of the syncretic unity of ancient art seen through the prism of the professional experience of the creators of court musical and stage productions in the French classicism style. In the court operas, ballets and other types of performances such of the composers, as A. Kampra, J.-B. Lully, J. F. Rameau, the spirit of the antique art was reviving in its own special way representing the “ensemble of arts” in a miniature. The research objective is to identify the features of the combination and interaction of musical and choreographic arts in the stage dances of French musical and theatre productions of the 17th – the first half of the 18th century. The article uses the method of comparative analysis. This method allows to analyze the features and the ways of interaction between the elements of dance and musical syntax. Results. The art of choreography is a rhythm and plastic form of thinking and self-expression, which can reflect reality not only in its eventual plot related manifestations, but also to rise to the broad abstract generalizations. In view of its rather conditional nature, dance requires, to one degree or another, the interpretation of its content. In the 17th and early 18th centuries, the need for such an explanation increases significantly because of the great role of emblems and encoded content in various aesthetic and artistic phenomena. In the dance, the close relation to the court ceremonial, which did not allow the expression of emotions, initiated this feature additionally. For example, at that time one was believed that stepping a minuet means “drawing up secret signs of love”, which were recognized in movements, poses, facial expressions and gestures. In the Baroque Epoch the audience easily was recognizing the content of such dances, whereas for the modern observer and researcher it remains unknown. The dance moves and their combinations in stage dances of the 17th and early 18th century receive a specific meaning in the context of poetic, musical and dance phrases. However, first, the moves of dancers-performers were consistent with the music. As a rule, the result of making a choreographic production depended on the composer’s choice of the musical form. Most of the dances within the researched period were set to music in a two-part form. Less often we can find the samples in the form of a couplet rondo and ostinato variations. When making the dance productions, French choreographers took into account the features of other popular musical forms of the 17th –18th centuries. In some cases they emphasized or combined with their own author’s decision the symmetric basis laid down in the musical structure (the form of rondo), in others – they disclosed the effect of the continuity principle. An example of the embodiment of a choreographic idea set to music in the form of a rondo is the passepied production (fr. passé-pied) “La Gouastalla” realized by R. A. Feye to the music of the unknown composer. The choreographic composition consists of five dance periods corresponding to five sections of the musical form. A slightly different choreography scheme – ABCBC is combined with the symmetric scheme in the musical variation– ABACA. In this production the combination of the musical form and the choreographic composition is somewhat changed, however, this does not mean the complete neglect of the musical form regularities in the construction of the dance general plan. One of the aspects of the musical and choreographic arts combination in French stage dances of the 17th and 18th centuries is the connection with of the choreographic component of the latter with the tonal plan of the musical work. The tonal coloring of the music was reflecting in the formation of a choreographic drawing of dance, in the process of expressing in the movements of various emotions and feelings. Changes of tonalities, the most used of which, as a rule, a certain circle of images and affects, their own “character” carried along at that time, were associated with a variety of transitions in the emotional coloring of the dance. It is from such, emotional, the perception of tonality, the versions of the tonal plans of French dances follows, which are unusual for later canons of Viennese Classicism, in particular, with the violation of the harmonic sequence of T-D-S-T. Conclusions. Thus, the stage dance of the 17th and early 18th century is a peculiar form of embodiment of the “miniature ensemble of arts”, where dance moves and their combinations receive a specific coloring in the context of poetic, musical and dance phrases and certain allegorical meanings. Nevertheless, first and foremost, the moves of dancers-performers were consistent with the music. Obvious is the great dependence of the choreographic production on the musical form and its components – the rhythm as well as the tonal and harmonic plan, which combined with the choreographic elements, prompt the feelings transmitted in the dance, which give to it the life and inspiration.

AbstrakTujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui “Koreografi TariSatampang Baniah yang telah dikembangkan oleh Yeni Eliza di Sanggar Sari Bunian Nagari Andaleh Baruah Bukik Kecamatan Sungayang Kabupaten Tanah Datar sebagai bentuk pelestarian seni budaya lokal. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif yang bersifat deskriptif analisis yakni mendeskripsikan dan menganalisis unsur-unsur atau elemen-elemen yang mendukung pertunjukan TariSatampang Baniah. Untuk menbahas penelitian tentang koreografi ini digunakan teori koreografi oleh Robby Hidajat, teori bentuk oleh Soedarsono, teori pelestarian oleh Edi Sedyawati dan teori perkembangan oleh Umar Kayam.Penelitian yang dilakukan ini menemukan hasil bahwa, TariSatampang Baniah yang awalnya tari tradisi di Nagari Andaleh Baruah Bukik sekarang telah dikembangkan oleh Yeni Eliza di Sanggar Sari Bunian. Usaha pengembangan ini dilakukan untuk menghidupkan kembali dan melestarikan TariSatampang Baniah yang sudah hampir punah di Nagari Andaleh Baruah Bukik. Upaya Yeni Eliza ini membuahkan hasil, melalui koreografi yang dikembangkannya TariSatampang Baniah sekarang dikenal ditingkat Nasional dan Internasional. Kata Kunci: tari satampang baniah, koreografi, pelestarian. AbstractThe purpose of this study was to find out the “choreography of satampang baniah dance which had been the developed by Yeni Eliza insari bunian bukik in Sungayang subdistrict Tanah Datar district as a from of preservation of local cultural art. This research that is qualitatif research that is describes and analyzes elements or elements that suport the performence of satampang baniah dance. To discuss this choreography theory was used by Robby Hidajat, from theory by Soedarsono , conservation theory by Edy Sedyawati and development theory by Umar Kayam. This research found that satampang baniah dance was originally dancethe tradition in nagari Andaleh Baruah Bukik has now been developed by Yeni Eluza in sari bunian studio. This development efforrt was carried out to revive and preserve the almost extinct satampang baniah dance in nagari andaleh baruah bukik. Yeni Eliza efforts paid off, through the choreograpy she developed satampang baniah dance now know at the national and international level. Keywords: satampang baniah dance, choreography, preservation.

The curriculum of preprofessional university degree programs in dance typically comprise four components: theory and history, dance technique, creative process, and performance. This article focuses on critique in the modern dance technique and choreography components of the dance curriculum. Bachelor of Fine Arts programs utilize critique as a signature pedagogy because “pedagogies must measure up to the standards not just of the academy, but also of the particular professions” (Lee Shulman, 2005 ). Critique is an essential pedagogy in the training of dance artists and is a vital component of the dance field, as it facilitates an intellectual and kinesthetic deepening of the student’s engagement with the dance profession.

The research subject is the period of the 1960s - the 1970s - the period of flourishing of the Soviet ballet theatre. During this period, in many theatres of the Soviet Union,  choreographers-pioneers were working whose creativity was based on the commitment to traditions and readiness to propose their own vision of the development of ballet theatre. The article considers the early period of work of one of “the men of the sixties” - a choreographer Gennady Malkhasyants (1937 - 2008). The author of the article reconstructs one of his earliest plays - the ballet “Naughty Couplets” staged in 1974 in Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theatre. The ballet was a part of an one-act ballet recital. The novelty of the research consists in the fact that it introduces into the scholar discourse the materials of the personal archive of the choreographer. The topicality of the research consists in the necessity to analyze the creative work of choreographers-directors, to reconstruct the plays which are not performed any longer and haven’t been recorded. In the 1970s, G. Malkhasyants was developing various choreographer’s techniques and director’s principles of the composition of a dance. So far, the creative work of G. Malkhasyants almost hasn’t been studied. The knowledge of the materials and the creative process of G. Malkhasyants gives the opportunity to trace back the main tendencies and, probably, to find the new ways of development of the modern art of choreography.   

The urgency to address to the theme of Salome in conditions of postmodern culture is considered. Some attempts are made to read anew and rethink it in the era of current information technology. Attention is paid to the peculiarities of the interpretation of the image of Salome and the "Dance of the Seven Veils" in the iconographic sources of the 12th – early 21st centuries through the prism of the aesthetics of certain era aimed to find artistic means of expression. An overview of the reflection of the event at the feast of Tetrarch Herod in the Gospel of Matthew and Mark. The content of the young princess's fateful dance, which led to irreparable tragic consequences — the beheading of John the Baptist. The necessity of using the concept of different branches of knowledge in order to establish a holistic picture of the development of events in this scene is proved. The sources that inspired O. Wilde to create the drama "Salome" are identified. The peculiarities of artistic interpretations of the image of the princess by the writer S. Mallarme and the artist G. Moreau are reflected in the article, in addition, the author showed the difference in the interpretation in the author's concept by O. Wilde. The stage version of "Salome" of 1902, directed by M. Reinhardt, is analyzed, the master's innovative approaches to the embodiment of dance are singled out against the background of the original scenography solution of M. Krause and L. Corinth, which became an aesthetic discovery in theatrical art of the modern era. Peculiarities of interpretation of Salome's dance based on O. Wilde's drama to O. Glazunov's music, with L. Bakst's decoration, M. Fokin's choreography, which continued modern experiments on the stage embodiment of the said work, are revealed. Priorities are set by dance director M. Fokin to work with iconographic sources, artistic design of the issue over the analysis of his musical drama. The results of the choreographer's search for new, relevant to the modern era, means of stage expression, their non-standard, bold combination to create an original version of the artistic and holistic spectacle are outlined. The influence of innovative discoveries of M. Reinhardt, V. Meyerhold and M. Fokin on further dance interpretations in R. Strauss's opera "Salome"