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What is the name of the Russian dance?

Question by opusd28: What’s the name of the Russian dance where the do the whole squat and leg kick thing?
There’s some Russian dance that has leg kicking. What’s the name of it?
Are there any movies with this dance in it? I remember seeing this one movie where there were these two guys doing the dance in full fur coat, fur hat, the whole 9 yards.

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Answer by Insomniac
It is what the fiesty Cossack troops do, I have always heard it called Cossack dancing.

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  1. Marlayna says

    Its The Tanets S Medvedem Dance … when the young boys dance with a bear!!

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  2. michelle.rosenman says

    Russian gopak Ukrainian folk dance originating as a male dance among the Zaporozhian Cossacks but later danced by couples, male soloists, and mixed groups of dancers. In western Ukraine, as the hopak-kolo, it is danced in a closed circle. The hopak has no fixed pattern of steps. Men competitively improvise steps, high leaps, squatting kicks, and turns; women dance simple steps, sway, clap, or circle. Changes of step do not necessarily correspond with the musical metre ( 2/4). Composers who have used hopaks in concert music include Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Mykola Lysenko, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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  3. debutadebut says

    Kozachok also Kazachok (Russian: Kaзaчoк) (Russian diminutive of kazak "cossack") A Slavic dance, chiefly Ukrainian, with a fast tempo featuring a step in which a squatting dancer kicks out each leg alternately to the front.

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  4. violinner says

    It's called the Trepak.
    There is a well-known Trepak in the Nutcracker Suite.

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  5. Willy says

    I know a dance called Casatchok.

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  6. Ed Anger Resurrected says

    It's called the Russian Squat-Leg-Kick dance.

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  7. Jane C says

    isn't it line dancing?

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  8. ghost says

    Ballet

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