The article analyzes the processes of formation of the Ukrainian ballet performance as a phenomenon where the aesthetic principles of academicism and socialist realism interact. It has been demonstrated that the first national ballet performances ("Pan Kanovskyi" by M. Verykivskyi - V. Lytvynenko, V. Verkhovynets, 1931; "Lileia" by K. Dankevych - G. Berezova, 1940) became an integrative system of academic and socialist realist principles. This was manifested not only in the synthesized vocabulary of classical and Ukrainian folk stage choreography, but also in the combination of general compositional and architectural principles of academic ballets and choreodramatic features. Such features fully met the requirements of socialist realism
