Music, dance & brain (excerpt from my book)

The book will soon be available in a digital version both in Ukrainian and English. You can read here the first excerpt about connections between contemporary dance, music, physics, and neurobiology

“METANOIA” (2023)

Contemporary dance project

Immersive performance “METANOIA” (2023, Odesa, Ukraine): a dance performance about the life of Ukrainians in the middle of the war. Format - dance impro lab with poetry and light
I was both a participant and art manager of the project

Yulia Homelska "Doli"

Unity of musical and body intonations in contemporary dance

Ukrainian modern ballet about life during the war in two acts is an author's project of the Odesa Opera House, and is an example of a new experience in creating a performance, which, according to the directors, can be safely called a "documentary ballet" - a completely new genre in the field of modern ballet art and a purely national work, born by a Ukrainian choreographer, Ukrainian composer, and performed by Ukrainian artists.

Wayne McGregor "Chroma"

3$

Genre-compositional and lexical foundations of plotless ballet

In the genre of modern plotless ballet, there is still a kind of plot (as a meaningful core), but it is conditional, it is not narrative and does not reflect external events, but is based on figurative, substantive, internal events.The features of conditional plot ballet from the example of two productions of "Chroma" by the British choreographer Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House in London.

Christopher Wheeldon’s “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”

5$ - available soon

Structural and compositional features of modern story ballet

The dramaturgy of this ballet is related to dramatic theater, but at the same time it differs from it, because to the same extent it is related to music, resembling the development of a symphonic work. The synthesis of script and musical dramaturgy creates a true dramaturgy of dance-plastic, choreographic action.

A detailed and in-depth author's musicological study of the musical and choreographic structure of the modern ballet from the Royal Opera House

Sidi Larbi "In Memoriam"

3$ - available soon

New artistic and linguistic metamorphoses of the plotless ballet genre of the 21st century

A new approach to the compositional structure of ballet, in which the choreographic form is dictated by the musical form. Let's consider the features of this approach using the example of the production "In Memoriam" by the Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi

Sidi Larbi "Sutra"

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Diffusion of genre boundaries

The production is a finished, creatively thought-out dance act that combines stage novelty, unusual choreography, and a strong emotional shock for the audience. She combines the techniques of martial arts kung fu, the language of modern choreography, and dynamic installation.

Arthur Pita "Metamorhosis"

3$ available soon

Dance theater: a new form of perception of physicality and influence on the development of modern ballet

For the culture of the 20th century a characteristic turn to the body, a huge interest in physicality in its various manifestations - both in everyday life and in art. Himself in the 20th century. dance becomes a part of the modern art process, a way of artistic and plastic understanding of mental, physical, socio-cultural, and political metamorphoses that occur with people in the world.

Nacho Duato "In The Forest"

4$ - available soon

Mythopoetics of modern ballet

Considering the main vectors of the development of modern ballet, as well as the types of relationships between music and choreography and genre varieties in the example of the ballet of the Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato's "Na Floresta"

Mats Ek "Smoke"

3$ available soon

"Contemporary dance" as a new modification of the ballet genre

Considering the peculiarities of the interaction of musical and plastic series, as well as the degree of influence of music on the choreographic component in contemporary dance using the example of the production "Smoke" (1995) by the Swedish choreographer Mats Ek. This production belongs to the film ballet genre.