The role of folk dance in formation of the choreographer creative potential

Abstract

The aim of the article is to substantiate the role of folk dance in the process of formation of the creative potential of a student-choreographer. Methods of generalization and comparative analysis were used in the research process. The article identifies three pedagogical conditions for formation the creative potential of students-choreographers by means of folk dance. It is pointed out that promising planning for professional growth plays an important role in formation the choreographers’ creative potential. The expediency of involving students in creative experiments, which include the creation of their own choreographic sketches in the middle of the hall, as well as training exercises near the machine, is substantiated. It is noted that students' sketch work in folk-dance classes is characterized by the study of choreographic sketches on the basis of dance vocabulary. The essence of separate types of students-choreographers’ independent work is revealed. The authors point out that the development of creative thinking, creative imagination and fantasy requires the application of a set of creative tasks based on improvisation. Attention is drawn to the need for the use of interactive and information technologies. Classes with the introduction of interactive and modern information technologies maximally stimulate student-choreographer’s cognitive independence and creative activity.

Features of choreography teacher activities in COVID-19 pandemic conditions and distance learning

“…Researchers of the issue of professional training of future choreography teachers pay attention to the importance of forming creative competence throughout the training period, which is aimed at developing and disclosing potential opportunities and internal resources of the personality, his full self-fulfillment in educational and further professional activities. For instance, the issues of students' creative development were revealed in the following scientific research: formation of individual style of the future choreography artist (Schupp, 2014;Schupp, 2015); development of the professional creativity's fundamentals of future choreographers in the process of studying (Scheff et al, 2005); formation of professional readiness for the practical activity of future choreographers (Vertinsky, 2010); development of students-choreographers' creative thinking in the process of university training (Triana, 2015); formation of creative activity of students choreographers (Pyzhianova et al, 2020;Vaganova et al, 2019); formation of the creative potential of the future choreography teacher by tools of folk-stage dance (Pyzhianova et al, 2020;Xiang, 2017); professional and creative formation in contemporary dance training (Roche, 2018). Scholars note in their scientific works that it is creativity, which is the basis of choreographic art, should become the core for the training of a qualified competitive specialist who can be creative in the fulfillment of his professional duties, to perceive and create changes, to comprehend and apply innovations in the pedagogical and artistic space.…”