Lytvynenko V. Transformation of Ukrainian folk choreography and its conceptualization at Pavlo Virsky's theater of dance

Dissertation on competing a scientific degree of the candidate of Fine Arts studies, by specialty 26.00.01 – theory and history of culture. – National academy of management employees culture and arts, Kyiv, 2017. The dissertation devoted to the process of formation of the Ukrainian folk stage choreography which in it‘s transformation achieved the apogee in the form of the author‘s theatre of theatre of Pavel Vyrskiy. The foundation of which were actors of Ukraine National academic ensemble of dance. In this theatre, the choreographer has compiled and transformed the experience of musical, theatrical and ballet arts in a new synthesis, which was based on folk and classic choreography. He used theatraliby and symphonism as important principles of working out choreographical and musical dramatic art for discovering of artistic and sce-nic images. It helped him to create lots of various ballet works in his own dance theatre. In the conclusions it is scientifically proved that folk-dance art in its development went a long way - from the simplest dancers to the forms of the theater of dance, in which dance folklore became the artistic and stylistic basis of theatrical-shaped choreographic miniatures of the famous artist.