Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: Ideological and Artistic Consonance of Literary Text and Ballet

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dc.contributor.authorLarysa M. Horbolis
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-10T12:13:31Z
dc.date.available2025-12-10T12:13:31Z
dc.date.issued2025-12-02
dc.description.abstractThe study compares the artistic features of Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi’s novella Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and the ballet of the same name staged at the Lviv Opera (libretto by Vasyl Vovkun). The aim of the article is to determine how the artistic content of Kotsiubynskyi’s work is transmitted and reinterpreted in the ballet production by Ihor Nebesnyi and Vasyl Vovkun. The research tasks include clarifying the role of stylistic and figurative factors in shaping the artist ic originality of the literary source and its ballet adaptation. To achieve this, the study uses a complex methodological approach: the hermeneutic method allows for the systematic analysis of the structure, imagery, and artistic techniques of both the text and the ballet; intermedial analysis is applied to ident ify similarities, differences, and unique features that contribute to the realization of the artistic intent ions of the writer and the librettist, and to determine the degree of correspondence between the stage interpretation and the conceptual and aesthetic principles of the original. The cultural-historical method enables an understanding of the aesthetic significance of both works in the Ukrainian cultural context of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Principles of reader-response aesthetics support reinterpretat ion at multiple structural levels, emphasizing conceptual meanings, symbolic centers, details, and artist ic techniques in both works. The study reveals how the novella is transformed in the ballet on thematic, semantic, and figurative levels. It highlights the functional role of music, scenography, choreography, costumes, and other theatrical components in developing the work’s themes, building characters, and reconstructing everyday and ritual life of the Hutsul community. The analysis demonstrates poetic exchange between the two works and identifies the crossing of medial boundaries that underline their uniqueness and mutual complementarity. The musicality, impressionistic features, and folkloric-ethnographic dimension of Kotsiubynsky’s novella f ind vivid expression in Nebesnyi’s music, choral and solo parts, and the colour and light palette of the performance, thus reinforcing their shared central idea—the grandeur of love. The colour scheme of the novella corresponds to the light-colour paradigm of the ballet. As a synthetic art, the scenography of the ballet emphasizes the multifaceted relationship of the Hutsuls with nature and conveys the distinctive worldview of Carpathian inhabitants. Costumes, stage design, and detailed visual elements, along with refined choreography, individualize the characters and highlight their connection to ancestral heritage. The thematic unity of human–natureculture is achieved in both works through picturesque landscapes (mountains, forest, river), symbolic elements (e.g., water, wood in the ballet), and the complex emotional experiences of the characters. The Lviv Opera production affirms the relevance and adaptability of Ukrainian literary classics, demonstrating their capacity to be effectively reinterpreted within contemporary stage art.
dc.identifier.issn3041-217X (print)
dc.identifier.issn3041-2188 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.duan.edu.ua/handle/123456789/6429
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAlfred Nobel University
dc.subjectnovella
dc.subjectmodernism
dc.subjectintermediality
dc.subjectballet performance
dc.subjectimage
dc.subjectidea
dc.subjectimpressionism
dc.subjectchoreography
dc.subjectscenography
dc.subjectповість
dc.subjectмодернізм
dc.subjectінтермедіальність
dc.subjectбалетна вистава
dc.subjectобраз
dc.subjectідея
dc.subjectімпресіонізм
dc.subjectхореографія
dc.subjectсценографія
dc.titleShadows of Forgotten Ancestors: Ideological and Artistic Consonance of Literary Text and Ballet
dc.title.alternative«Тіні забутих предків» М. Коцюбинського: ідейне і художнє співзвуччя художнього тексту і балету (англійською)
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Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology