FESTIVALS OF CIRCUS ART AS A FORM OF CULTURAL INTERACTION

Authors

  • Olena Pozhars’ka National Academy of Management cadres of culture and arts, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31866/2410-1915.19.2018.141359

Keywords:

circus, circus art, festival, cultural interaction

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to comprehend the festivals of circus art as a phenomenon of modern artistic culture and the form of cultural interaction. Methodology of the study. As the main theoretical paradigm in the study, the system approach was used, within the framework of which the following methods were applied: the typological allowed to determine the main types of festivals of contemporary circus art; analytical helped to identify the characteristic features of festivals of modern circus art, the mechanisms for their implementation and focus of activities. The novelty lies in the fact that this study is the first study on this topic. Conclusions. The festival of circus art is a cultural event that functions according to the laws of the artistic communication spectacle and has a number of characteristic features: synthetic, non-locality, the presence of the viewer as the most important artistic component. Festivals of circus art can be divided into certain types on the following grounds: art form; coverage area; type of institutional support; list of participants; competitive or representative basis. Festivals of circus art – a large-scale form of cultural and intercultural interaction, which reacts sensitively to the main tendencies in this kind of art and promotes its integration into the world cultural process.

Author Biography

Olena Pozhars’ka, National Academy of Management cadres of culture and arts

Postgraduate

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Published

2018-08-10

How to Cite

Pozhars’ka, O. (2018). FESTIVALS OF CIRCUS ART AS A FORM OF CULTURAL INTERACTION. Culture and Arts in the Modern World, (19), 79–86. https://doi.org/10.31866/2410-1915.19.2018.141359

Issue

Section

MASS CULTURE