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What (who) is gopak - definition

UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCE
Gopak; Cossack dance; Cossack dancing; Kazotsky Kick
  • ''Hopak'' (late 18th - early 19th century)
  • ''Hopak'' - a soviet short film (1931)

gopak         
['g??pak]
(also hopak)
¦ noun an energetic Ukrainian dance traditionally performed by men.
Origin
Russ., from Ukrainian hopak.
hopak         
¦ noun variant spelling of gopak.

Wikipedia

Hopak

Hopak (Ukrainian: гопа́к, IPA: [ɦoˈpɑk]) 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 dances. It has also been incorporated into larger artistic opuses such as operas, ballets and theatre.

The hopak is often popularly referred to as the "National Dance of Ukraine" and has become very popular in Poland. There are similar folkloric dance tunes known as Sirmpa in Leros, Greece.

Examples of use of gopak
1. The artistes of the dance company well known to the Korean people through their several performance tours of the DPRK staged colorful numbers including Russian dances "Tatar Girl" and "Small Steppe", fleet dance suite "A Day on Warship", Korean folk dance "Trio Dance", Moldovan humorous dance "Deceitful Makanu" and Ukrainian dance "Gopak". They made a truthful artistic representation of the optimistic life of the Russians and other nations and their national emotion and peculiar customs, thus clearly demonstrating the appearance of the company with a long history and tradition.