The scientific developments of Ukrainian and foreign scientists devoted to studio choreographic work, its place in the cultural and artistic life of Kyiv in 1910-1920s are analyzed. Historiography of the problem is conditionally divided into five groups: scientific works, in which some aspects of the chosen research topic are covered in fragments; research investigations that solve the problem of the development of choreographic art in Kyiv in 1910-1920s; scientific studies related to the study of the processes of development of Soviet choreographic art during the first third of the XX century; cultural works that clarify the formation of the theatrical sphere of Kyiv in the 1910-1920s; art works, which present an analysis of the world and Ukrainian artistic avant-garde of the early XX century. Reference books published in the early XX century, Soviet journals of 1910-1920s and 1960-1980s, autobiographical literature played a significant role in the study. Dictionaries, specialized reference books and encyclopedic editions, which contain factual data on dissertation issues, also have become important.
The source base of the study is represented by documents from the funds of the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Kyiv, the State Archives of Kyiv region and the Archives of the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinematography of Ukraine (Kyiv).
It is established that the formation of the European cultural and artistic field of the early XX century was influenced by original philosophical and aesthetic concepts formed by representatives of the artistic environment as a reaction to major historical changes that took place in Europe during the 1910-1920s. It is proved that the search for a new artistic "language" affected all spheres of art (literature, music, architecture, sculpture, dance, painting, decorative and applied art, etc.) and contributed to the formation of a new type of artist – a universal personality that can realize in several artistic areas. Among the most influential artistic movements were Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Dadaism, Futurism, and others.
The second section provides the study of cultural and artistic processes that took place during this period in Kyiv and clarification of the role of European and Russian artistic factors in these processes. It is noted that the creative development of the cultural and artistic sphere of Kyiv in the first two decades of the XX century took place simultaneously in all creative areas. This was facilitated, in particular, by the economic, political and cultural situation of Kyiv (one of the leading cultural centers not only of the Russian Empire but also of Europe) before the First World War, after it and some time after the revolutionary events of 1917 in Moscow and Petrograd, when the city on the Dnipro river became a concentration of powerful artistic forces that came from the northern capitals of the former empire in search of lost everyday comfort and new creative opportunities. Among the important artistic centers that significantly influenced the formation of the cultural face of Kyiv in the 1910-1920s were the creative association Kiltse (Koltso, Ring) (A. Ekster, A. Bogomazov, K. Vasilieva, N. Shyfrin, I. Rabinovych etc.), literary group of B. Yakubskyi (M. Zerov, M. Rylskyi, P. Tychyna, H. Kostiuk, M. Drai-Khmara, O. Burghardt, etc.), Narbutovsky circle (Narbutovsky club/group) (P. Tychyna, L. Kurbas, Y. Mykhailiv, M. Semenko, F. Ernst, O. Chapkivskyi, etc.), art club H.L.A.M. (acronym from Ukrainian words which mean painters, writers, artists, musicians), experimental school Shkola rukhu (School of Movement) by B. Nijinska, AKHCHU (Association of Artists of Red Ukraine) (F. Krychevskyi, I. Yizhakevych, H. Svitlytskyi, M. Samokysh, etc.), ARMU (Association of Revolutionary Art of Ukraine) (M. Boichuk, A. Bogomazov, M. Burachek, V. Meller, V. Yermylov, O. Khvostenko-Khvostov, etc.). An important example of avant-garde research in theatrical art was the work of directors K. Mardzhanov (Kote Marjanishvili), L. Kurbas, J. Osterwa, M. Tereshchenko, M. Bonch-Tomashevskyi, as well as film directors and cinematographers – H. Zatvornytskyi, P. Yezerskyi, Semenovych, Pidhoretskyi.
It was found that the contribution of European and Russian artists in the development of the cultural space of Kyiv led to important artistic changes that took place both in academia (classical ballet) and in the field of choreographic experiments of the early XX century.
It was established that ballet as a cultural and artistic phenomenon was formed in Kyiv in the 1900-1910s on the basis of the work of choreographers of Polish origin (S. Lenchevskyi, M. Lange, V. Zelevskyi, A. Romanovskyi, A.
