This is another of those 'ideas I've had in my head for a while'... I've commented before that Mercedes' friend Svetlana the werewolf is Russian, but I figured her personality was pretty much stereotypical old-school 'Cossack', very much boisterous bruiser, fight hard and party hard. And given it's Nutcracker season, and one of the dances in the Nutcracker Suite is the Trepak, which is a traditional Russian/Ukrainian/Cossack dance, having Svetlana drawn doing that definitely seemed like something I needed to get drawn, and SonicSweeti was happy to make it happen.
(Granted, she's wearing something closer to the traditional male clothing rather than female, but Svetlana was never the most feminine of people to start with.)
Artist's posting at /view/54986229/ so go check things out there, too!
(Granted, she's wearing something closer to the traditional male clothing rather than female, but Svetlana was never the most feminine of people to start with.)
Artist's posting at /view/54986229/ so go check things out there, too!
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Werewolf / Lycanthrope
Gender Female
Size 1275 x 1650px
File Size 1.01 MB
I have friends who I've seen do that dance. It's... very energetic, and it's sort of like riding a bicycle, in that you have to keep moving to stay balanced properly.
I have a game that has dance animations for light and heavy hopak. I am wondering how the trepak is different.. will have to look that up. The heavy hopak appears to have the same squat and kick out as pictured here.
Keep it up, Svetlana!
Keep it up, Svetlana!
According to the Wikipedia page,
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..
(Apparently 'trepak' is the Russian name and 'tropak' is the Ukrainian name? It's all transliterated from Cyrillic anyway. I knew it as 'Trepak' first because I learned it from the piano music for the movement from the Nutcracker Suite.)
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..
(Apparently 'trepak' is the Russian name and 'tropak' is the Ukrainian name? It's all transliterated from Cyrillic anyway. I knew it as 'Trepak' first because I learned it from the piano music for the movement from the Nutcracker Suite.)
https://twitter.com/thepatrickfoxy/.....48554964107264 its a Gopak. and its only Ukrainian dance. Moscowians aka russians has any common with that. and it drawn so named Don cAssack. they also have nothing to do with the Cossacks.
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