ARTISTIC AND AESTHETIC PRINCIPLES OF GERMAN EXPRESSIVE DANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN DANCE IN THE XXI CENTURY Cover Image

ХУДОЖНЬО-ЕСТЕТИЧНІ ПРИНЦИПИ НІМЕЦЬКОГО ЕКСПРЕСИВНОГО ТАНЦЮ У КОНТЕКСТІ РОЗВИТКУ СУЧАСНОГО ТАНЦЮ В ХХІ СТОЛІТТІ
ARTISTIC AND AESTHETIC PRINCIPLES OF GERMAN EXPRESSIVE DANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN DANCE IN THE XXI CENTURY

Author(s): Olha Babich
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Cultural history, Aesthetics, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), History of Art
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: German expressive dance; modern dance; artistic and aesthetic principles; K. Joss; M. Wigman; P. Bausch;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to identify the artistic and aesthetic features and leading trends in the development of German expressive dance of the first half of the twentieth century. and determine their impact on the development of modern dance in the first decades of the XXI century. Methodology. The system method is applied, thanks to which the peculiarities of German expressive dance are considered; the method of comparative analysis, which helped to identify common and distinctive features in the central concepts of dance K. Joss, M. Wingman, and P. Bausch; method of art history and artistic and stylistic analysis, through which identified and substantiated trends in the development of German modern dance and modern dance). Scientific novelty. The artistic and aesthetic principles of German expressive dance are studied on the basis of the analysis of choreography, aesthetics, and discourse of movement K. Joss, M. Wingman, and P. Bausch; the basic theatrical concepts of the range of emotions of the leading representatives of the German expressive dance motivating physical movement are revealed; determined that P. Bausch, M. Wingman and K. Yosse work with emotional space, which is directly related to physical movement and configures their own unique aesthetics of movement experience - dancers aestheticize the human body, covered and subject to strong emotions. Conclusions. The characteristic interest of German expressionist dance to inconspicuous, accidental, or natural manifestations of corporeality, the focus on violating previously established boundaries of art, the search for innovative ways to approach the chaos of reality, causing the formation of certain models of corporeality, and others. can be clearly seen in the modern dance of the early XXI century – phenomena, representing a unique way of artistic and bodily modeling of the world, become one of the important dancers and generators of current cultural and artistic values and meanings.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 95-99
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Ukrainian