ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ МЕНТАЛЬНОСТЬ И ЕЁ ПРОЯВЛЕНИЕ В ХОРЕОГРАФИЧЕСКОМ ИСКУССТВЕ

The article deals with the phenomenology of the artistic mentality through its attribu-tive constituents and functional processes. As the attributes of the artistic mentality are the artistic phenomena: thinking, images, symbols, methods and tools, reflecting the pic-ture of the world in art. The functionality of the artistic mentality is designated within the boundaries of the cultural paradigm within which the artistic-communicative, artistic-ideological, ethnic-identifying and professional-creative functions are highlighted. The article focuses on the polymodality of artistic mentality that is manifested most clearly and characteristically in the choreographic art. The choreography is the most syn-thesized form of art among the historically ancient forms of human creativity. Selected attributes of the artistic mentality and its functions are manifested in the choreography, which gives grounds to define the essence and uniqueness of the choreo-graphic thinking, the choreographic image, the concept of the plastic-intonation charac-ter, energy of dance movement as a means of transmitting emotional information, cho-reographic-image thesaurus, and other specific artistic-mentality attributes. The specificity of artistic-mentality functions of the choreography provides intensive development of this form of art in the contemporary society as a socio-cultural space, covering all groups of the population by age, occupational, subcultural and other classi-fications. From a professional point of view the artistic mentality of choreography involves la-beling the essence of the choreographic-performing and choreographic-pedagogical mentality.