Ballet Criticism: Support Searching

Abstract

The article is devoted to the fate of ballet criticism in the digital age. In a situation where the word, which was the basis of civilization, discredited itself, the transition from the agrarian to the industrial era led to a breakdown of the entire value system. The era of changes has cast doubt on many of the previously unshakable canons, if not revision. The author of the article distinguishes two kinds of literature on ballet: the first is ballet criticism, where dance dominates and everything is subordinated to it, in the second, the main writer becomes the one who writes about ballet, and dance is the starting point of reflection. The conclusion from the analysis is that the cardinal problems of ballet studies that the ballet critic faces are, first of all, understanding what dance is and where its boundaries are; how dance and music relate in the art of choreography; how to preserve the classic heritage.