Variability of Balletmaster’s Techniques in the Production of Folk-Stage Dance in the Context of the Specificity of Working with a Children’s Choreographic Group

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify the features of the options for using professional techniques in the production of folk-stage dance through the prism of the specifics of the work of a ballet master-director of a children’s choreographic group. Research methodology. The method of analysis and synthesis, typological method, comparative analysis method, and theoretical generalisation method were applied. Scientific novelty. The issue of using balletmaster’s techniques in the process of producing folk-stage dance with a children’s choreographic group was investigated. The features of the production and creative process from the birth of the idea to the premiere performance are considered, taking into account the specifics of the choreographer’s work with different age groups of children. Conclusions. According to the results of the study, it was found that the most common choreographic techniques in the production of folk stage dance in a children’s choreographic group are the technique of contrast, accompaniment, repetition or re-dancing, parallelism, plastic leitmotif, dynamics of dance action, polyphony, build-up, counterpoint; a number of poetic techniques – combination, typification, exaggeration and understatement, absolutisation (to saturate the choreographic drawing with bright details). Their choice and method of use is determined primarily by the age factor. For the successful implementation of the task set by the choreographer, each participant in the children’s group should understand not only what is required of them (performing a certain set of steps, movements and figures in a certain sequence), but also why they should do each action consciously.