Scenic Chukokkala and the concept of ‘children’s ballet’ in the choreographic practice of the 20th - 21st centuries

Abstract

On the example of choreographic performances on the subjects of K. Chukovsky and other authors, the debating definition ‘children’s ballet’, the artistic features of this phenomenon, as well as its semantic content from the beginning of the twentieth century to the first decade of the 21^st century were considered. Since in the Soviet period of the development of choreographic art the ideological, strictly educational contexts for creating such spectacles prevailed, they often acquired such negative for the perception of art of quality as edification, unjustified pathos, excessive sociology and simplicity of expressive means. These trends are also observed in contemporary ballet masters’ art, when children’s ballets are superficially modernized with the help of external paraphernalia and plot twists and turns that are not typical of the literary source.