Somatic Practices in Modern Ballroom Choreography

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the rise and development of somatic practices in the context of modern ballroom choreography. Research methodology is an organic set of basic principles of research: objectivity, historicism, multifactor model, systematicity, complexity, development and pluralism. The study is based on the following methods of scientific knowledge: problem-chronological, concrete historical, statistical, descriptive, logical and analytical. Results. As a result of the analysis of the rise and development of somatic practices (kinetics, kinesthetics, ideokinez, etc.) in the context of modern ballroom choreography, it has been proved that the benefits of somatic practices contributed to their massive popularization in the educational field on the scientific aspects of choreography art in general and ballroom choreography in particular; techniques of thinking and body movements designed to study the ballroom dances contribute to the acquisition of dance skills from natural body movements, the sensation of music and rhythm, the distribution of musical accompaniment in time and space to comprehend the process of perfect movements; the use of somatic practices in the process of professional dancers contributes to the formation of kinesthetic awareness in order to implement a high artistic level of performance of ballroom dancing. Novelty. The study has enabled a better understanding of the mechanism of somatic practices in the context of modern ballroom choreography. The practical significance. The research may be used in developing lectures by specialists in choreography.