Today’s Tendencies in Folk-Scenic Dance (an overview of roundtable materials)

This review presents the summary of reports and interventions during a roundtable discussion devoted to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Michail Semenovich Godenko, a choreographer, People’s Artist of the USSR, artistic director of Krasnoyarsk State Academic Ensemble of Siberian Dance. The reports encompass the following aspects of the master’s creative activity: the importance of artistic legacy throughout Russian Folk Dance Culture development; the cultural and historical analysis of modern professional and non-professional folk-scenic dance; the difficulties of translating the choreographic legacy in the context of Russian realities, etc.