Plakhotniuk O. Modern Jazz-dance as the Phenomenon of Artistic Culture.

The thesis deals with a phenomenon of jazz - dance which is regarded through the analysis of contemporary choreography in Ukrainian and world cultural contexts. A complex and systematic approach to the researched problem is used. Thus, it was possible to determine aesthetic, historic and other classifying generalizations. The author points out and describes the main origins of jazz culture.In the thesis the history of world jazz schools is analyzed. The author considers the syncretic nature of jazz dance, as it encorporates with other kinds of arts, including music, theatre, painting, literature, academic ballet, cinema, innovative technologies and sports. The forms of jazz dance in ballet and social dance are described.The author has outlined the paradigm of jazz dance from the late XIX century to the beginning of the early XXI century as one of the progressive vectors in understanding the phenomenon of jazz.The author points outs a number of features that characterize jazz-dance as part of a common cultural space of world choreography of the late XIX century and the early XXI centuries. Jazz-dance is described as a model of symbiosis of dance and music - from folklore to theatrical forms of professional art.It is noted that the American, European and Ukrainian branches of jazz-dance started from folk, religious, music and dance traditions. As a form of dance, jazz had certain forms of evolution and understanding of the scientific community. It enriched the work of choreographers, dancers, it influenced the different types and forms of contemporary art; formed a holistic phenomenon of jazz-dance in contemporary artistic culture.