Traditions and innovations in Russian ballet critics of the Silver Age

The article is devoted to the largest critics of the Silver age that laid the basics of Ballet Studies as a science, involving in their work the problem of interaction of traditions and innovations of modern to their ballet. The author conducts a comparative analysis on the basis of two key works - “The Old and the new ballet” of A. J. Levinson and “Modern ballet” of V. Y. Svetlov. The author comes to the conclusion that expressing opposing views on contemporary ballet, the biggest critics of the era come to a common conclusion that innovation does not exist in isolation from tradition and the ballet critics say about the triad inherent in any component of a holistic cultural process as a system: tradition - innovation - rich tradition.