Improvement of performance skills in folk stage dance by the means of myofascial release

The purpose is to highlight the issues of improving the performance skills of higher education applicants — choreographers at all stages of professional education in folk stage dance using the method of myofascial release. The methodology. To achieve this goal, a number of general scientific methods were used, in particular: the method of pedagogical observation, the method of analysis and synthesis, methods of generalization and systematization, historical and genetic method, method of questionnaire and polling. The results. Myofascial release training is an integral part of maintaining the health of applicants-choreographers. Purposeful use of MFR techniques throughout the the whole period of study at stage folk dance classes has a compensatory function, helps dancers to recover faster after high loads, improves the elasticity of muscle and connective tissue, increases the amplitude of movement in the joints, which, in its turn, leads to better results of performance skills. The scientific topicality lies in the consideration of the issues of higher education applicants’ performance skills improvement when making complex movements at all stages of training in stage folk dance by the method of myofascial release. The influence of MFR on the performance skills of applicants-choreographers in stage folk dance is considered. Series of exercises on myofascial release with the help of various techniques are suggested: rolling, rocking, resting, raking and releasing. The practical significance lies in the use of MFR exercises by higher education applicants at folk dance classes, which improves the quality of performance skills. Systematic use of the MFR method by higher education applicants at all stages of training not only helps to avoid future occupational injuries of articular-ligamentous apparatus, but also improves the quality of functional and aesthetic movement when performing complex virtuoso movements.