gopak
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gopak
1925–30; < Ukrainian gopák, derivative of gop interjection uttered during such dances < Polish hop < German hopp, hops, akin to hop 1
Example Sentences
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There he forces an overweight Nikita Khrushchev to dance the knee-bending gopak.
From Washington Post
Before Brooklyn Mack, a Youth America alumnus with the Washington Ballet, danced “Gopak,” he expressed trepidation because Gennadi Saveliev, a founder of Youth America, had “killed” the piece in the past.
From New York Times
Why don't you dance a gopak for us?
From Time Magazine Archive
The gopak is a strenuous national dance, performed in a squatting position, with the men rapidly kicking one leg out and then the other, all the time moving around a large circle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The finale is perhaps the most extraordinary Moiseyev dance of them all�a Ukrainian gopak in which half a dozen tireless soloists outbound each other in a sequence of eye-dazzling maneuvers that defy both gravity and credibility.
From Time Magazine Archive
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