Music and Time Annotation << Back Researching the Semantics of the Imitation Choreographic Forms in the Ritual Traditions of Kola Saami (Based on the Reconstruction the Bear Fest) I.V. Solovev The article discusses the Saami traditional choreography in the aspect of syncretic forms of ritual art. There are identifing the main kinds of Saami dancing kinetics connected with imitation forms and symbolic interpretation of movements. The subject of special importance is the princip of gipotethical symbolic analogy that is of the comparing the trajectories of movements in the ritual dances of the Bear festival to the geometric contours of the cult object – Labyrinth. Keywords: Saami, tradition, kinetics, syncretism, imitate, symbol, labyrinth. Contacts: E-mail: hopes71@yandex.ru Pp. 22-28.