Kinder K. Semantic of plastic symbols of Ukrainian Folk Dance Culture

The work is dedicated to the multifold research of dancing symbolism of Ukrainian folk dance in the broad historical context. Given is the theoretical summary from the problem of plastic symbol semantics. The most traditional structures and choreographic vocabulary of Ukrainian folk dance are analyzed in detal. In the dissertation presented is the interpretation of ornamental motives of applied art as a graphic "record" of dance's symbolic structures, made is the attempt of classification of dancing symbolism by the figurative-semantic feature. The sence of Ukrainian folk dance culture combines such elements as movement and art - the way of symbolic expression of dominating idea of humanbeing sence of life.