MYTHOPOETIC SPACE OF A FANTASTIC BALLET AND ITS HERMENEUTICS
The article is based on the concept of myth as the ‘space act’. The author doesn’t consider myth to be a literary piece. A myth is proposed to be viewed as a cultural model of behavior and the action that caused them, as a sacred text. The article deals with the problem of interpretation of ballet. No realistic ballets with well-developed plot and psychologically credible characters (so-called dramality) are revealed, but the fabulous works of ballet classics. Using the methods of hermeneutics, the author naturally extends the concept of ‘text’ to the action consisting of dance, mime and gesture and shows that in the space of myth everything is important. Three choreographic versions of the ballet ‘Sleeping Beauty’ are analyzed. Each of them can be properly understood within the framework of mythopoethic reality.
Keywords: ritual, dance, myth, hermeneutics, tale
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Issue: 5, 2015
Series of issue: Issue 5
Rubric: PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS
Pages: 191 — 195
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