Становлення dance medicine & science у вищій хореографічній освіті
Development of Dance Medicine & Science in Higher Choreographic Education

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article. To analyze the peculiarities of the formation and trends of the development of Dance Medicine and Science – one of the most promising branches of scientific research of choreographic education in the context of the educational process of higher education in the USA and Western Europe. The methodology of the study consists of the principles of objectivity, historicism, multifactor, systemicity, complexity and pluralism; and to achieve the goal methods used: problem chronological, concrete-historical, statistical, descriptive, logical-analytical. Scientific novelty. Features and trends of development of the newest branch of choreographic education – Dance Medicine and Science; the activities of the The Performing Arts Medicine Association, the National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science (UK) and the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science (the Association of Dance Medicine and Science); the features, scientific literature and methodical provision of Dance Medicine and Science courses of a Bachelor's and Master's degree; the priority forms of the introduction of Dance Medicine and Science in choreographic education in Ukraine are determined, as well as the importance of an innovative approach to the development of training curricula for specialists, taking into account advanced foreign experience. Conclusions. At the present stage, Dance Medicine and Science, as a multidimensional science subliming the knowledge of medicine, sports, somatics, teletherapy, physiotherapy, dance, anatomy, physiology, psychology, kinesiology, biomechanics, movement analysis and nutrition, to study quantitative and qualitative aspects dance training, recognized as a separate branch of choreographic education, which combines a number of scientific disciplines into the practice of dancers, choreographers and dance instructors. In our opinion, at the present stage of the formation and reorganization of the higher education system in Ukraine, the introduction of Dance Medicine and Science into the educational process of higher art institutions and the attraction of an innovative approach of foreign experience to the development of educational plans of the choreographic industry, will facilitate the preparation of highly skilled and competitive international experts.

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