PhD, Associate Professor N.V. Osintseva¹
PhD, Associate Professor I.A. Muratova¹
PhD, Associate Professor A.A. Lukyanenko^1
1Industrial University of Tyumen, Tyumen

Objective of the study is to analyze dancesport as a cultural phenomenon in the aspect of anthropological ontology to understand its essence and evaluate prospects of its further development.
Methods and structure of the study. The research methods included an analysis of the works of domestic and foreign authors devoted to the theory of sports, history of civilization, philosophy, and aesthetics, comparative method and systemic-structural approach that helped reveal the essential characteristics of sport, dance, and dancesport. Understanding dancesport as a more complex phenomenon rather than a simple combination of sport and dance is based on a synergistic approach.
Results and conclusions. Dancesport is a relatively new entity, insufficiently studied phenomenon of modern culture. The anthropological ontology sees sport as something bigger than a spectacle, and dance – as something bigger than an art form. This enables to identify different ontological bases of sport and dance at the moment of formation of a Westernized culture. The fundamental feature of the synergy of sport and dance is human physicality, where the body is both the boundary and the mode of being. Dancesport is not just a borrowing of the intrinsic attributes of sport and dance but a synergy of these two phenomena. In this context, the combination of sport and dance has apparently led to the origin of a new deep phenomenon with its specific properties rather than to their transfusion. Ambivalence of aesthetic agonality, freedom and determinism, as well as emotional and physical expression can be considered among the emergent properties of dancesport.

Keywords: dancesport, agonality, ontology, dance, physicality.

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