The article examines the situation in modern ballet pedagogy, which is going through a turning point, being influenced by dynamic cultural and value transformations taking place in society. Traditional educational approaches face a number of problems associated with globalization, digitalization, requirements of inclusiveness and interdisciplinarity. As a result, there is a rethinking of established pedagogical principles and a search for new methods of teaching and educating future ballet dancers. The purpose of the study is to identify and analyze the cultural and value shifts influencing modern ballet pedagogy. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the traditional hierarchical educational model is gradually being replaced by a more democratic and empathic approach. There is a reorientation from achieving exclusively technical perfection to developing creativity, individuality, psychological balance of dancers. There is an increased attention to the health of ballet dancers, preventing their injuries, conscious attitude to the body. The scientific novelty of the work consists in understanding ballet pedagogy not as an isolated sphere, but as a mobile system that promptly responds to general cultural transformations. The complex influence of such modern phenomena as digital culture, egalitarianism, and awareness on the formation of modern pedagogical strategies in the ballet field is considered. Some further paths for the development of choreographic education are outlined.
October 27, 2016 in the framework of the Student Scientific Society of the History Faculty of Moscow State University and with the assistance of the teachers of the Department of New and Contemporary History, Ph.D., Associate Professor SA Soloviev and Ph.D., Associate Professor NN Naumova, a round A table on the topic: The consequences of BREXIT for the United Kingdom and the European Union, which became active participants in undergraduate and graduate students, as well as graduate students of the Department of New and Contemporary History.
October 24, 2015 Ph.D., Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of the Faculty of History MSU N.N.Naumova made a presentation «The historical role of the regiment Normandie-Niemen » at the celebrations in France to mark the 70th anniversary of the return of the legendary pilots after completing their mission on the Soviet-German front.
The complex of the Upper Paleolithic sites Kamennaya Balka is located on the high right bank of the river Don valley's mouth and presents a typical example of open sites. This group of sites belonging to the same archaeological culture, mentionned in specialized literature as Kamennobalkovskaya. In this short article the history of discovery of these sites, their main delineations and possibilities for researching of all material were described. Due to more than 50 years of detailed archeological research large areas of settlements were studied and vast archeological data were gathered, that allows reconstruct various aspects of ancient population's life. Owing to complex scientific research being constantly carried out on the sites the basis for different paleoecological reconstruction was formed. These sites reflect the transformation of the same cultural tradition during quite a lengthy period of time. That is very important to understand how the adaptation to constantly changing living conditions was formed and developed. So, Kamennobalkovskaya culture sites nevertheless provided completely unusually vast quantity of the various valuable data that allowed to realise an attempt to simulate the systems of subsistence practices in Upper Paleolithic on Northern coast of Azov Sea.
