Features of the methodology for researching choreographic interpretations of the fairy tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann on the ballet stage at the end of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries

Abstract

The article analyzes the experience of choreographic embodiments (interpretations) fairy tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King on the ballet stage at the end of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries. The analysis is based on the methodology of choreographic interpretation of literary sources, used by some Russian researchers, and the concept of interpretation of choreographic text. Scientific analysis in art involves the use of one of three approaches: strategic, methodological, interpretive, or a combination thereof. All of them are analyzed in the article from the point of view of ballet studies and touch on various versions of the ballet The Nutcracker created in recent decades. The prospect of research in this direction is represented by the development of modern ballet science, which studies new theatrical productions and interpretations of well-known classical plots on the choreographic stage of the 21st century.