Biographical Ballet as a Genre of the Contemporary Culture

Student: Gorbatsevich Daria

Supervisor: Olga Roginskaya

Educational Programme: Cultural and Intellectual History: Between East and West (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This graduate qualification work deals with alterations in dancing, which cause the development of the biographical choreographic performances. It discusses, how in the waning of postmodern culture, memory is again becoming one of the main thematizes in the art world. Further to the research, this extended qualification work explores the strategies of postmodern dance, developing during the 20th century, as well as their influence on the fashioning of contemporary choreographic approaches. With reference to them, the development of a new genre of contemporary culture defined as "biographical ballet" is explored, and dance performance is considered as a vehicle to preserve cultural memory and also to express the intimate, multi-layered realities of personal history.

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