In the thesis the ways of development modern dance in the Calturi of Art are researched systematically on the ground of both a large number of printed scientific sources and the modern dance practipe. For the first time in Ukrainian study of art the classification criteria of modern dance style are formulated scientifically, the idea of modern dance school is clarified It is round out that the "philosophical" principal is the main generating element of modern dance and it is inspiration for cognition of the essense of things, phenomena, individuals, transforming their sense by means of movement in accordance with the author’s philosophical believes. The aesthetical principles are denying the historical and everyday conventions, absolute freedom in the created forms. The technical principles are collapse, isolation,. polyrhythmy, polycentry, impulse, relaxation, and tension are dominated there. In fact, modern dance is a specific asthetic philosophical practice, which is realised according to the principles mentioned above. The newly created in the thesis term "individual school" is proposed for denoting the tradition of such practice as following methods, theories etc. The theory of V. Kandinskogo “About spiritual in an art” is well- founded on a dance "modern”. Dissertation represents the evolution of a dance "modern" during the XXth century on a material of outstanding representatives. The main kinds of it: free dance, rhythm plastics, machine dance, modern jazz. These theorists in the first half of XXth century researched the link of a dance "modern” with academic school, where was born a new method of composition in variety dancing vocabulary. Also was found out the specific development of a dance "modern" in SSSR, which is contained in existence in the following kinds of forms: aedoplastics, musical movements, harmony plastics. stylized folk-dance. It is established, the dance "modern" had a first place in a leading in opera-theatrical system in the beginning of XX century, and its movements of classical dance influenced on plastic speech of a dance "modem". It is shown that the main specific feature оf the Ukrainian and Russian modern dance is that in the period since 1924 till 1980, which can be considered stagnative in its history, as it had been existing in the time of totalitarian regime, socialist realism monomethodology and mass culture policy, modern dancers resorted to survival tactics using sports, variety art, folk dance as mimicry devices. As a result of the process calisthenics, a new kind of sports, appeared. In the thesis proved that so-called post-modern dance which started in the second half of the XXth century and denied the philosophical basis of modern dance is not a trend of the latter as it doesn’t correspond to the worked-out modern dance style criteria. Trends of global and local modern dance are systematized. In the thesis was recovered the role of a dance “modern” XXth in Culture of Art, by its help have done synthesis between kinds of art and "visibility" symphonic “non-ballet”musical plays.
