Tropak

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.

One of its best known representations is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Trepak" (also known as the "Russian Dance") from the ballet The Nutcracker.

The third of Modest Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death is named "Trepak".

Traditional Tropak choreography did not survive except a simple walk with a syncopated stamp, often done to a quick duple meter rhythm.