Tropak

Dance Trepak
Soldiers dancing in barracks. Painting by Frédéric de Haenen [fr], 1913.

Tropak (Ukrainian: трoпак) or trepak (Russian: трeпак; Ukrainian: тріпак)[1] is a traditional Russian and Ukrainian folk dance.[2]

The tropak shares many musical and choreographic characteristics with the better known hopak. Both developed as Cossack social dances, performed at celebratory occasions. The tropak differs from the hopak in chordal use and also in that the tempo gradually speeds up throughout the dance.

  1. ^ Humeniuk, Andriy (1962): Ukrainian Folk Dances (Українські Hароднi Танцi). Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
  2. ^ (in Russian) Фраёнова Е. М. Трепак // Музыкальная энциклопедия / под ред. Ю. В. Келдыша. — М.: Советская энциклопедия, Советский композитор, 1981. — Т. 5.