This article aims to identify the benefits of the online platform for scientific and communicative interaction in HEIs during the pandemic. Pedagogical experiment during the academic year 2020/2021 was chosen as the main method of research, which included the study of the Mentimeter's effectiveness (online platform) and a students' survey at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts (KNUCaA). Results. The study showed that the use of the Mentimeter platform resources significantly increases the level of the student audience interest in the course material and during the study as a whole. This platform was involved by the teachers to work with students during the lecture or for educational purposes. Also, it was aimed to get feedback from students about the subject course content or the lecturer's methodological developments. Online surveys, created with the platform's help, allow establishing synchronous communication with the students during the lecture session remotely. Students' evaluation of the communication component of distance education under such conditions has higher rates. Communicative practices, which implementation into educational process contributes to the formation of open, communicative educational environment in modern institution of higher education, under long-distance education are of great importance not only for learning.

The aim of the article is to highlight the features of the development of choreographic education at the beginning of the XXI century on the example of educational institutions of Great Britain and the United States, which train students in "Choreography" specialties. Methods: analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, observation, description, tabular and graphical representation, comparison, systematization, questionnaire survey, hypothesis, abstraction and generalization. It was established that the development of choreographic education in the beginning of the XXI century is characterized by an annual increase in the number of students being trained as choreographers, choreographic education support by the universities, positive changes after the introduction of support measures for the development of choreographic education, increase in the level of encouragement for students to study the profession of choreographer, usage of modern ICT.

The purpose of the article is to study artistic processes among ballet performers in the 1950s – 1970s on the example of the creative activity of Nikolai Apukhtin, Anatoly Belov, and Gennady Baukin. The methodology of the work includes the use of the following research methods: general historical, comparative, analytical, dialectical, systemic, etc. The scientific novelty of the publication lies in the fact that it first explored the professional culture in the field of male classical performance of the first half of the twentieth century on the example of the stage achievements of N. Apukhtin, A. Belov, and G. Baukin. Conclusions. The artistic contribution of the ballet premieres of the 1950s – 1970s. in the development of Ukrainian classical choreography on the example of the creativity of dancers N. Apukhtin, A. Belov, and G. Baukin, consists in the following: 1) a significant increase in the professional culture of performers due to the complication of the technical component and improvement of the actors' acting skills; 2) the creation of highly artistic images in ballets of the Soviet classics (B. Asafiev, R. Glier, A. Kerin, S. Prokofiev, A. Khachaturian, M. Chulaki, V. Yurovsky, etc.) and choreographic performances on national themes (V. Homolyak, K. Dankevich, G. Zhukovsky, V. Kireiko, N. Lysenko, A. Svechnikov, M. Skorulsky, B. Tishchenko, etc.); 3) transfer of professional experience in the process of pedagogical work to subsequent generations of Ukrainian dancers. Key words: N. Apukhtin, A. Belov, G. Baukin, male classical dance, Ukrainian ballet theater.

Recently, the prevailing trend is that graduates do not work in their profession; the purpose of the article is to study ways to improve the effectiveness of social and professional self-determination of students. The authors conducted an empirical study of the causes of this phenomenon and identified the main ones (the choice was made for the student by his parents; in the process of studying, the student became disillusioned with the chosen profession; the chosen profession does not bring the necessary earnings; did not find a job in the speciality). The article noted that the percentage of work in the profession depends on how long ago the specialist graduated from the university. The authors identified what causes could be eliminated in the process of teaching students. Having analyzed the existing pedagogical methods for students' more confident social and professional self-determination, the authors proposed the conceptual foundations of pedagogical support for students' social and professional self-determination. These recommendations will make it possible to correct students' social and professional self-determination in their speciality. The authors proposed an algorithm that allows to visually and transparently determine the student's attitude to the chosen speciality and ways to persuade the student to look for a job and work in the profession and the necessary tools for this. The proposed dual approach to adjusting the socio-professional self-determination of students will allow them to identify the problem at an early stage, track it and fix it with adjustment. Research has shown that there are several main reasons why a student does not work in a profession. All these reasons, in our opinion, are subject to correction in the learning process. The main feature of success is the desire of the university to identify such students at an early stage, a developed adjustment mechanism and constant control and monitoring. A further promising direction of research is the development of questionnaires that can identify this problem and a mechanism for attracting artificial intelligence that can guide each student individually and signal when the university's intervention is necessary.

The purpose of the article is a comprehensive study of the stage achievements of F. Baklan, V. Potapova, I. Zadayanna, and O. Baklan in the context of the development of Ukrainian ballet in the second half of the XX - early XXI centuries. The methodology of work contains the following research methods: analytical, dialectical, systemic, general historical, comparative-historical, etc. The scientific novelty of the publication is that it first explores the significance of the artistic work of the masters of the musical theater of the creative dynasty Baklan, who made an important contribution to the rise of domestic academic choreography of the Soviet era and independence. Conclusions. The importance of the artistic achievements of the figures of the stage of the theatrical Baklan’s dynasty for the development of national ballet is difficult to overestimate. The founders of the creative family - Honored Artists of the USSR Fedor Baklan (1930-1983) and Varvara Potapova (1932-2018) joined the cohort of leading dancers of the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater T. Shevchenko 1950-1960s, which after the crisis of drama contributed to the formation on the domestic stage of a new form of music and dance drama ("poetic dance") under the direction of choreographers-innovators - V. Vronsky, R. Zakharov, F. Lopukhov, S. Sergeeva, M. Tregubova. The creative work initiated by parents on the stage of the National Opera of Ukraine in the 1980s and 2000s was continued by Honored Artist of Ukraine, conductor Oleksiy Baklan (b. 1961) and his wife, Honored Artist of Ukraine Iryna Zadayanna (1962–2005), who created and will continue to generate high art aimed at the highest European theatrical standards.