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Prisiadki (singular: Russian: присядка, romanized: prisiadka, plural присядки; Ukrainian: присідання, romanized: prysidannia, присядки, prysiadky) or vprisiadku dancing (Russian: вприсядку) is a type of male dance move in East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian) dances. The dancer squats and thrusts one foot ...
Both furious and gentle music is the basis for Russian dances. [5] [6] Probably the most famous characteristics of Russian male dances are the Russian squat work (knee bending elements), stomping, some acrobatic tricks and the split jumps (also Russian split or Russian jump). Split jumps exist in similar forms in Chinese dance.
Hopak (Ukrainian: гопа́к, IPA:) is a Ukrainian folk dance originating as a male dance among the Zaporozhian Cossacks, but later danced by couples, male soloists, and mixed groups of dancers. It is performed most often as a solitary concert dance by amateur and professional Ukrainian dance ensembles, as well as other performers of folk ...
ARB (Russian: Армейский Рукопашный Бой; Armeyskiy Rukopashniy Boy; 'Army Hand-to-Hand Combat') is a Russian martial art of training for protection and attack receptions that incorporated many functional elements from an arsenal of individual hand-to-hand combat and martial arts from around the world, and has been used in real fighting activities.
A Russian gopnik sits in a stairwell in a khrushchyovka building (2016) A gopnik [a] is a member of a delinquent subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and in other former Soviet republics—a young man (or a woman, a gopnitsa) of urban working-class background. [2] The collective noun is gopota (Russian: гопота).
It is named after its creator, Sergey Smolov “the Russian Master of Sports”. The squat routine is a strength program broken down into four phases which last for a total of 13 weeks. The four phases are: Phase In — A two-week phases that uses a variation of squats and lunges. Base Cycle — A 4-week segment which requires 4 squat sessions ...
It is based on the traditional Russian [2] and Ukrainian folk dance also called the trepak. The piece is part of the Divertissement in Act II, Tableau III. [citation needed] The other character dances in this divertissement are: Chocolate (Spanish dance), Coffee (Arabian dance) and Tea (Chinese dance). Tchaikovsky's Trepak is written in AABA form.
The most significant features of the khorovod dance is to hold hands or the little finger of the partners while dancing in a circle. The circle dance symbolised in ancient Russian culture "moving around the sun" and was a pagan rite with the meaning of unity and friendship. The female organizer or leader of the dance was called khorovodnitsa.