Ukrainian Ballets as Ethnomarkers

The purpose of the article is to identify the main aspects of the ethnomarking role of Ukrainian ballets. Methodology. The study used the analysis of scientific literature, a comparison of the "Ukrainian national ballet performance" concept’s definitions, systematization, art history analysis. Scientific novelty lies in clarifying the concept of "Ukrainian national ballet performance", identifying ethnomarkers in Ukrainian ballets. Conclusions. Ukrainian national ballet performances as elements of spiritual culture play a differentiating function, acting as original ethnomarkers of domestic ballet in the world choreographic palette. Despite the functional incoherence of ballet with the traditions of folk art, folklore, synthesized with academic choreographic and musical forms, leads to the emergence of a peculiar phenomenon – the Ukrainian national ballet. "Ukrainian National Ballet Performance" is a ballet performance, saturated with elements of national identification, namely: worldview, moral, aesthetic, psychological characteristics and the like; score with elements of folk melos; choreography is based on a combination / synthesis of classical dance and Ukrainian dance folklore. The external and internal components of the artistic image in national ballets are ethnomarked – they are the embodiment of purely choreographic signs of belonging to the Ukrainian ethnic group (vocabulary, drawings, etc.) and national (mentality, temperament, moral attitudes, behavioral stereotypes, etc.). The artistic image as a whole and its components in national ballet performances acquire the features of a symbol, plays an important role in ethnomarking at many levels: figurative, lexical, spatial-compositional, thematic, attributive, and the like.