Valery Antsyshkin and his role in the development of sports ballroom dance in Kazakhstan

Abstract

The article is a fragment of the Master’s thesis “Historical and analytical aspects of the formation and development of ballroom dance pedagogy in Kazakhstan”. It is devoted to the consideration of the creative personality of Valery Valentinovich Antsyshkin (1952–2013). He was one of the initiators of the creation of a sports ballroom dance school in Karaganda in the 70s of the last century. A new genre of dance culture that has been existing for little more than half a century in Kazakhstan has passed from an amateur association of sports dance (AASD) to a special university discipline “Pedagogy of sports ballroom dancing”. The сontribution of V. Antsyshkin, who stuck at the origins of this path and outlined the main directions of its development, has not yet been studied. For the first time, the article presents unexplored facts of V. Antsyshkin’s biography, analyzes the personal qualities that determined his organizational, performing and pedagogical activities. The concept of Valery Valentinovich’s creative personality is based on archival documents, exclusive memories of relatives, friends, colleagues, students.