THE ART OF DANCING OF VOLYN: THE DYNAMICS OF TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS
Authors:   Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Ukraine, Kinder Karyna 
Published: May 2022

In the complex and contradictory process of social and ethnonational progress of Ukraine, the study of the original creative potentials of the nation becomes especially important not only in the historical and theoretical, but also in the regional aspect. In the domestic research area, we can see the appearance of studies aiming to form a special field of research – the regionics, which is designed to reveal the uniqueness and originality of the cultural environment within a particular local unit. The diverse palette of movements, gestures and poses has a strong ethnic color, reflecting national characteristics, psychological stereotypes, specific regional and local features, various perspectives of rhythmical thinking of people living in the domestic territory. The system of pictorial means is traditional and publicly available to the ethnic community as a certain sign system within the national or regional tradition. Problems and tasks of the article lie in the field of art studies, which develop issues of folk dance, the relationship between general and ethnospecific, traditional and new. In this context, the idea of relying on the historical traditions of Ukrainian spirituality as a source of self-preservation and burst for new development is increasingly put forward. All this determines the objective need for scientific analysis of authentic dance samples, which have been the bearers of certain ideas and concepts for many centuries and reflect the main features of ethnic mentality, rhythmical thinking, and «spiritual flair» of the people. On the basis of literary sources involving developments in ethnochoreology, artistic features of Volyn folk dance, its ethno-national specifics, which are manifested in both choreographic folklore and professional art, are analyzed and characterized. The aim of the work is to investigate the trends in the development of choreographic culture of Volyn and the problem of the relationship between traditions and innovations, which directly affects the creative process of the interpretation of authentic sources. The research methodology is based on the principles of an integrated approach and the application of analytical, historical, cultural and comparative-typological methods. The scientific novelty of the development is that a comprehensive art study of the original dance art of Volyn has been conducted, and its place and role in the modern spiritual and socio-cultural space has been determined. Given the dynamics of cultural and historical processes of today, it has been concluded that the choreographic art of the Volyn region continues to develop in the context of the all-Ukrainian tradition and is a part of it. The study made it possible to identify such a distinctive trend as the appeal to the original folk art and the development of newborn forms of dance on this basis. In the choreographic culture of Volyn, the abovedescribed trend reveals a complex dialectic of the interaction of tradition and innovation, with the predominance of the traditional component.