Pages of the Creative Biography of Eduard Butynets

The purpose of the research is to analyze and systematize information about the life and work of Eduard Butynets. Methodology. The complex of methods was used for the research: historical-chronological and biographical to reveal the authenticity of the artist's life facts; system analysis allowed to analyze the studied problem in a comprehensive and objective way. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that for the first time the information about the creative way of Eduard Butynets – the honored worker of Ukrainian variety art, the representative of Ukrainian, namely, Lviv dance school, the specialist on the stage-theatrical art, folk-stage and Ukrainian dance, historical and everyday, modern ballroom dance, dance composition and dance staging, choreographer art, who trained a galaxy of choreographic artists in Ukraine. Conclusions. As a result of the analysis and systematization of the information, it turned out that Eduard Butynets is an outstanding figure in the choreographic art of Ukraine in the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Despite the routine of teaching activity at the College of Culture and Arts, and later in Lviv University, the artist creates a system of pedagogical methods and principles that provide an important basis for the formation of specialists competences in choreographic art, professional activities of followers and students. Exclusive attention in the activities of artist was paid to preserving the national heritage of Ukrainian choreographic art, as well as to transfer the best samples to the students. There was a considerable number of new and restored best works of choreographic art of Ukraine in the creative work of E. Butynets. The artist formed a school of students who today continue choreographic work throughout the territory of Ukraine and abroad. The article presented only attracts attention to the problem of E. Butynets's work role in the development of choreographic art in Ukraine. Prospective for further study is a detailed understanding of the creative heritage of the dance master, the principles of pedagogical activity, as well as studying the experience of his students.