THE CULTURAL AND THEMATIC ORIGINS OF UKRAINIAN CHILDREN'S BALLETS COMPOSERS ON THE DOMESTIC SCENE (ІІ HALF XX CENTURY)

Abstract

Purpose of the article. The study is related to the specifics of children's ballets in the USSR and the era of Ukraine's independence. The cultural sources of literary subjects were looked in the ballet art, their connotative connection with the corresponding ideological tasks and assessments that were part of the sign system of cultural consciousness of adults and children's viewers at the specified time are traced. The work of composers and choreographers has been analyzed starting from the first ballet performance for children ("Murzilka and Mazilka" for the music of the classics staged by M. Bolotov and P. Virsky, Odessa, in 1929) to the specially created E. Rusinov's musical compositions A. Yakovchuk, A. Litvinov and other authors.   Comprehension of the history of the issue and today's perception of old events allows us to see from the unexpected or previously unknown aspects the aesthetic tastes of the ballet art and to analyze the socio-anthropological and psychological shifts that occurred during the transition to the conditions of the post-Soviet space. The methodology of the research is based on a comparative, historical and art method, which allows revealing, analyze and compare specific artistic and aesthetic models reflected in specific artistic compositions (ballets for children). The scientific novelty of the work is to broaden the concept of the evolution of the themes and subjects of the ballet theater under the ideological conditions of stagnation and the outdated state policy of educating the younger generation. Conclusions. The appeal of Ukrainian composers (V. Gomolyak, J. Kolodub, I. Kovach, Yu. Shevchenko, etc.) to the cultural sources of ballet imagery, as well as the attention of directors of children's ballets exclusively to the subjects and themes of foreign (primarily European) literature testifies to underestimation of the possibilities of the national literary and folklore inheritance in enriching and expanding the choreographic culture of Ukraine and in the excessive inheritance of the ideological standards of the Soviet state (Malchish-Kibalchish N. Silvanskoff ). It was found out that in many cases the ballet scores of Ukrainian composers were not inferior regarding artistic qualities to the analogous works of Russian composers (R. Shchedrin, Yu. Ter-Osipov, D. Saliman-Vladimirov), Armenia (K. Khachaturyan) and other countries.