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A vital survival skill in the training of all KGB agents.

"Moscow, Moscow, I-don't-know-the-frickin'-words, I-don't-know-the-frickin'-words, ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! HEY!"

— Chuggaaconroy, Let's Play The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

You know the one — the dancers squat down with their arms folded and kick high with one leg and the other, sometimes intercalating more squats up and down between flurries of kicks. If a Husky Russkie is celebrating a victory for Glorious Mother Russia, he is 90% likely to be doing this dance.

This trope's name is one of those cases of mislabeling by foreigners. For instance, its origin is actually both Russian and Ukrainian, and it's not commonly called "Cossack Dance" or some derivate. While it does receive occasionally the names of Kozatsky or Kazatsky, which mean just that, the true name of this stage dance is Hopak or Gopak^note Spelled Гопа́к in the Cyrillic alphabet. which comes from the word hopaty meaning "to hop", so a better translation of its name would be "The Hopping Dance". Similarly, it gets sometimes referred as the Kazachok or Kozachok ("Little Cossack"), but this is a completely different folk dance that also comes from Russia and Ukraine. The squat dance is also a integral part of Russian dances like Barinya, Leto, Trepak and many more.

The dance is commonly depicted with dancers barking "Hey! Hey! Hey!" while squatting, which is another point of mixing things up and thinking that all Russians say "Hey!" while dancing not just like this, but in any other style. On occasions, it can be substituted with "Hop! Hop!"^note If actual Russians were dancing, they would shout "Op! Op!" without any h's.

The squat-and-kick move itself is properly called prisyadka (knee-bending) and is just one part of the Hopak dance, but it's the only part known to most non-Russians due to its inherently funny looks and obvious athleticism required. It's indeed one of the more difficult parts of the dance, requiring good balance and substantial leg muscle strength, but of course Mother Russia Makes You Strong. In fact, there is an entire martial art based on Hopak dancing called Combat Hopak. Prisyadka moves can also be incorporated into the shashka dance, performed with the long Cossack sabre and which involves complex evolutions of movement with the sword.

Despite what is stated above about its origins, Norwegians pride themselves by stating that Russian folklore actually learned this from them. The "squat" is essential in the Norwegian male dance ''halling''.

Also, don't confuse this with the "Slav Squat" meme.

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     Advertising 

• The now-infamous "Dancing Cossacks" New Zealand National Party television advert from the 1975 general election campaign featured a line of Russians squat dancing across the screen. The party was trying to imply the ruling Labour Party's compulsory superannuation scheme would lead to Soviet-style communism (they handily ignored the fact that the Cossacks had numbered among the Bolsheviks' bitterest enemies, at least until they were completely crushed by the Red Army).

     Anime and Manga 

• In Hetalia: Axis Powers, Russia/Ivan mentions this, as well as kicking bullies with it.
• One episode of The Law of Ueki has this dance done. With cossack hats. As a condition for battling participants to breathe in a special oxygen-deprived environment.
• In Soul Eater Tsar Pushka's meister utilised it as a martial art - with some break dancing thrown into the mix.
• In Pokémon Black and White Cilan and Pansage start doing this during the events of A Maractus Musical!
• Done by Warsman in one Kinnikuman filler. Even stranger, he does it while wrestling someone.
• The girls of Pravda Engineering High School do it around a campfire in Episode 9 of Girls und Panzer
• In From Eroica with Love, KGB agent Mischa the Cub is stated to be an excellent Cossack dancer.
• This is the signature dance of Bones Suzuki and Haruo Sato in Haunted Junction.
• In The Voynich Hotel, the witch sisters called the Three Mothers originally hail from Russia, and when the youngest goes back home to visit their teacher, they are shown doing the dance when they first reunite.

     Comics 

• An issue of Topolino, the Italian Mickey Mouse comic book, had Fethry Duck literally kicking Donald Duck's ass this way, as seen on the cover.
• Nero: Nero does this dance when surrounded by Russian soldiers in Het Vredesoffensief van Nero ("The Peace Initiative of Nero") to make them believe he is one of them. He, of course, fails and the guards want to take him in. Nero then asks them if they can do it better, whereupon all soldiers start doing the dance. Nero then pushes everybody down to the floor and runs away.
• A jubilant member of a Volgan tank crew is doing this in an East End pub when he is interrupted by Bill Savage wielding a double-barrelled shotgun in the first episode of the 2000 AD story 'Invasion!'.
• In The Killing Joke, the Joker's entourage of circus freaks includes two men in Russian garb who can be seen doing this dance while he sings about how "I Go Loony". They're less obviously "freak"-ish than playing to how the Joker's philosophy, as written in this book, is informed by an era during which "the bomb" was hanging over everyone's head.

     Fan Works 

• Naturally, works involving the Discworld equivalent of Russians exaggerate this. In the works of A.A. Pessimal, when a group of "Rus" witches performs traditional dance at the annual Witch Trials, members of Lancre's Morris Dancing side are heard to remark that this is only a ladies' team. Imagine an international against the men?

     Film — Animated 

• Anastasia: A crowd of extras dance this way during the opening "Rumor in St. Petersburg" number.
• The Russian puppets in Pinocchio do this.
• Performed by thistles in Fantasia during the Nutcracker Suite segment. No points for guessing which part they appear in.
• Boris the Russian goose performs one in Balto (complete with accompanying yells of "HEY!") in an attempt to cheer Balto up. For some reason, it doesn't work.
• In Rise of the Guardians, North briefly does this across a rooftop before jumping down a chimney to get a tooth.
• In Return To Never Land, Smee does the dance on Captain Hook's back while giving him a massage.
• In Allegro non Troppo there's a moment in which the animator and a costumed ape do this dance on the floor.

     Film — Live Action 

• Elf: Buddy, drunk in the mail room (having mistaken alcohol for syrup), entertains the workers by doing this dance on a table.
• In The Cossacks, they do this when partying with some Gypsy women after a raid.
• Spoofed as part of the disco-dance flashback scene in Airplane!, in which Ted Stryker defies the laws of physics.
• A Shot in the Dark, one of the films in The Pink Panther series, Clouseau is coaxed into joining in a troupe of dancers - and promptly rips his trousers. In the same film, a dancer doing this move is killed after drinking poisoned vodka.
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull features some soldiers dancing happily like this in front of a campfire.
• The climax of The Man Who Knew Too Little has the titular character stand in for the lead dancer in one of these.
• Simon is doing the Cossack Dance in the music video of "Christmas Don't be Late" in the film Alvin and the Chipmunks.
• The Mask - Stanley easily dodges a hail of bullets, transforming into a matador, a Cossack, Vegas Elvis, and a movie cowboy. While he's dressed as the Cossack, he performs this dance to dodge the bullets.
• The Mamushka in The Addams Family is one of these. The fact that Gordon is able to dance it is one of the tip-offs that he is really Fester Addams (albeit with amnesia until almost the end of the movie), rather than a Body Double taking his place.
• One of the many dances that shows up in Bedknobs and Broomsticks during the musical number "Portobello Road."
• The Three Stooges had a famous running gag involving this, wherein somebody would hurt their foot or otherwise hop around in pain rhythmically. The Stooges would then begin clapping in rhythm and take up the dance with multiple variations and vaguely Russian chanting.
• The Leningrad Cowboys miserably fail to dance like this at a campfire in Leningrad Cowboys Go America. And they're supposed to be Russians.
• Seen in October when the Bolshevik operatives infiltrate the army of monarchist Gen. Kornilov and make friends. This results in the failure of Kornilov's coup attempt.
• In Patton, Russian soldiers do this at a party after Third Army has linked up with the Soviets at the end of the war. Patton, who hates the Russians, is not impressed.
• Vasyl does the hopak dance in Earth (1930), although he does not bust out the squat move.
• In Downfall, a few Soviet soldiers can be seen doing this as they celebrate their victory in Berlin.
• U.S. Ambassador Joseph Davies' daughter sees some Russians doing this at an outdoor party in Mission to Moscow and wishes that she could learn now to dance like that.
• The Human Comedy includes an approximately ten-second glimpse of some Russians when Tom and Diana observe the various ethnic communities celebrating at a town festival. Naturally, the Russians do this dance.
• The Mysterious Lady: Performed, presumably by peasant entertainers, at the fancy ball thrown for Tania, in pre-World War I Russian Poland.
• Anna Karenina: They even do it at the opera, or at least they do it at the opera that Anna and Vronsky go to see, which is apparently some sort of Down on the Farm story.
• War and Peace (1956): Apparently upper-class Russians do the squat dance too, as seen at a drunken party attended by Pierre early in the film.

     Literature 

• A rare female example: Tib in Betsy-Tacy is mentioned as being able to do this dance, using it as the grand finale of her show dance.
• Firebird (Lackey) has Ilya use this as a form of exercise (since he's currently playing The Fool he can't do normal version of keeping in shape) and the narration makes a point of mentioning all the various moves part of it, not just the squatting.
• Tommy's friend attempts it in the novel version of Carrie and falls on his ass.
• In The Dilbert Principle, Scott Adams mentions "Russian squat dancing," and calls it by that name. In a footnote, he says, "Yes, I know there must be a different name for it. But they should call it "squat dancing."
• August 1914: The novel recounts the Battle of Tannenberg at the start of World War I, a Curb-Stomp Battle in which an entire Russian army was surrounded and captured by the Germans. Colonel Vorotyntsev watches a Russian wagon train cross a bridge. One carter "even contrived to bounce along the cobbled road in a squatting Russian dance." Besides adding a little bit of atmosphere, this whole passage is meant to demonstrate how crude and half-assed the Russian supply system is; a theme throughout the whole book is how thoroughly Easy Logistics is averted, as Russian soldiers starve for days while on the march.
• Referenced in If I Fall, If I Die. Will practices sliding across the ice in a squat with one leg extended, a move he calls "the Cossack."

     Live-Action TV 

• At one point, Drew Carey appeared to be about to do some of this, then his back gave out.
  • Drew Carey appears to know the entirety of the dance in real life, having pulled it off on Whose Line Is It Anyway?
• Parodied on The Muppet Show: Pig Muppets in cossack costumes dance like this, one of them kicks with both legs at once and hovers in the air for a split second before falling to the floor.
• Three Sheets included host Zane Lamprey asking a Russian about the dance in the Moscow episode. The Russian explained that they didn't dance like that... but that he knew how to, from watching American movies.
• Battle Fever J, the third Super Sentai series, had each team member representing a different country and performing a national dance; no points for guessing what Battle Cossack's dance was.
• Happy Days had an episode with a dance marathon, with Fonzie throwing this out as a challenge dance at the end, allowing he and his partner, Joanie, to win.
• One season of The Amazing Race had the contestants doing this as part of a Detour. MANY of the contestants, both male and female opted to do this, although not without some pain (or trouser splits!)
• Mocked in an episode of Hogan's Heroes after Schultz says he'll be sent to the Russian front if Colonel Klink ever does a thorough roll-call and discovers one of Hogan's men is missing.

  Colonel Hogan: (sarcastically) Don't tell me you're afraid of a bunch of guys who dance sitting down?

• So You Think You Can Dance: Part of the Russian Folk Dance on the season one of its performers (one Jeanine Mason) would go on to win. KALINKA!
• Russian spy Illya Kuryakin did this briefly in the second-season episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. entitled "The Yukon Affair".
• Star Trek: The Original Series: Mr. Chekov performs this dance in "I Mudd".
• The Love Boat episode "Alaska Wedding Cruise" has the boat stopping in Sitka, where a group of Russian folk dancers do the dance.
• The Good Place: In "Best Self", Chidi and Jason dance this way while the group are marking their final night in the Neighborhood before it's decommissioned.
• This is one of the many dances that Olive and Otto perform in order to solve a bridge troll's riddle in the Odd Squad episode "Trials and Tubulations". Unfortunately, it's not the correct answer.

     Musical 

• Fiddler on the Roof during the song "To Life".
• A bit of this shows up in the choreography for "The Soviet Machine" in the London production of Chess.
• Act 2 of Riverdance features an elaborate (and awesome) Russian dance number. It starts with Hopek-style dancing and turns it up a notch.
• Moskau by German band Dschinghis Khan seems to be associated with this in the minds of many. They never actually perform this at any point in the video, though.
• The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Operatic Society Production of The Mikado includes a musical number that cycles rapidly through several national styles, in which the Russian segment features a group of ladies performing the Russian squat dance with the aid of chairs the same color as the backdrop.
• In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the squirrels do a Russian squat dance while Veruca does ballet before they kill her.

     Music 

• Mentioned in Boney M's song "Rasputin". The eponymous mad monk is said to dance the Kozachok "really wunderbar" in it. And the Face of the Band Bobby Farrell performed it on stage for the song.
• Featured a lot in the Basement Jaxx's music video for "Take Me Back to Your House". Bears get to dance, too.
• The music video for the song "Energia" by Russkaja features this every time the chorus plays.
• On Shirim's Klezmer reimagining of The Nutcracker, "The Russian Dance" is appropriately renamed "Kozatsky 'Till You Dropsky."
• When Hardcore Techno arrived to Russia and was appropriated as the hardbass subgenre, one of the first things to change was replacing the Dutch hakken dance with the Russian gopak dance.
• Russian Folk Rock band Otava Yo avert this. Even when their live gigs mean that everybody gets up and dances. The video for Sumetskaya^note subtitled as Russian Couplets for Fighting features young peasant men engaging in dancing and play-fighting, accompanied by the band's music, and only once gets anywhere near the kozachok. On the other hand, there is this live version. Which has an unseemly amount of squat-dancing.

     Pinball 

• Gomez and Uncle Fester do this in The Addams Family during The Mamushka, and throw their hands and feet every time a target is hit.

     Professional Wrestling 

• Alex Koslov dons his hat before doing the squat dance to the head of an opponent in the "victim" position.

     Theme Parks 

• The "It's a Small World" ride at Disney Land has a Russian puppet doing the squat dance.

     Video Games 

• Zangief's ending from Street Fighter II, where Mikhail Gorbachev arrives to congratulate him^* See? No more scenes like that. That's Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell. In Pocket Fighter he has it as one of his special attacks — he advances while dancing, kicking his opponent further and further back.
  • In Street Fighter IV, when you get to the rival battle as El Fuerte, Zangief does this while introducing himself.
• In Punch-Out!!, Soda Popinski does this in one of his win animations.
• Part of the male dwarf dance in World of Warcraft. But not the Slavic-accented Draenei, oddly enough. They dance to "Tunak Tunak Tun", which is Indian. Perhaps because the squat dance would be anatomically difficult with the draenei's goat-like legs.
• The Jack series of robots from Tekken have something like this in their moveset because they are made in Russia.
• Beowulf from Skullgirls uses this dance as an attack, while standing on a chair, no less.
• In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, a mask can be used to make ReDeads dance in this fashion. Also, the final boss may randomly do this when you fight it.
• The Soviet Conscript from Red Alert 3 does it as an Idle Animation.
• Might Guy's Leaf Style Youth Exercise in Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm has this dance as a punishment if Guy cannot do 100 pushups in 5 seconds. He does these pushups while headbutting his opponent's stomach, and if you fail the QTE mashing, Guy will only manage to do 99, will start crying waterfall tears, and does the dance in retreat. He remains in this dance for a bit after the move, leaving him open for hitting.
• Unpatched copies and the shareware demo of Duke Nukem 3D allow Duke to use both the off hand "Mighty Foot" (kick with left foot) and Emergency Weapon kick (kick with right foot) at the same time. Fans tend to see it as Duke either doing this trope, or imitating Liu Kang.
• In Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Rayman does this after completing every level.
• Fable has this as one of the "expression" animations you can make your character do.
• Russian Dancing Men is a rhythm game for iPhone & iPad based on the flash music vid below.
• In the second game in the Destroy All Humans! series, while Crypto is in Tunguska, the locals will usually do this kind of dance whenever they are under his Free Love spell.
• In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Rasputin does this dance at the start of the boss battle against him.
• In Super Hero Squad Online, this is Colossus's dance animation. Naturaliski.
• Dampierre from the Soul Series has this as one of his kick combos. It can be devastating if timed properly, but hilarious if you fail.
• Team Fortress 2 added it as a taunt as part of the Gun Mettle Update with the name "Kazotzky Kick". If one person starts doing it, then anyone nearby can hit the taunt button to follow suit. The best part is that you can still move around (albeit slowly) while doing it, meaning that it's actually possible to capture the intelligence while doing it just to humiliate the other team, as this video shows.
• Rash can do this in Killer Instinct, but since he can morph his feet into giant spiked boots, it becomes a lot more painful for his opponents.
• When Just Dance 2 included Boney M's Rasputin in its repertory, it logically snuck some bits of cossack dancing in the sketch itself.
  • 2014's version of YMCA reused the same dancer and also had him cossack dance in his solo bit.
• One Piece: Pirate Warriors: Buggy does the dance before activating his first Limit Break, Bara Bara Festival.
• Viktor from Paladins is an old Russian soldier who naturally has the cossack dance as one of his taunts.
• The monkey's dancing animation in Ultimate Chicken Horse.
• In Feel the Magic: XY/XX's "Dance" stage, the Down instruction briefly makes the player character engage in this.
• Final Fantasy XIV as of patch 5.3 has an emote that is in part based on the dance, called the "Lali-Hop".
• In Gundam Battle Assault 2, Bolt Gundam does this dance as its crouch kick attack.

     Web Original 

• Russian Dancing Men, which spawned the game.
• Someone kindly put a Run–D.M.C. song over footage of one of these.

     Web Video 

• Epic Rap Battles of History:
  • Rasputin vs. Stalin has the two opponents doing this after the battle alongside challengers Lenin, Gorbachev, and Putin. Stalin, who was not Russian by birth, seems to be having a bit of trouble with it.
  • Che Guevara does the Russian dance in the background of his battle against Guy Fawkes, symbolizing his alliance with the USSR during his lifetime.

     Western Animation 

• The Footloose episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender had a similar dance.
• The Futurama episode "A Taste of Freedom" opens with Fry walking in on everyone watching Zoidberg doing one of these in honor of the "Freedom Day" holiday. Fry decides to join in to avoid standing out. Subverts the traditional association with Communist Mother Russia with the chanted lyrics "freedom, freedom, freedom, OY!"
  • Later, a bunch of Uncle Sams on stilts are seen doing the dance.
• In the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Wizard of Odd", Doofenschmirtz's guards do this dance during their big number.
• A Woody Woodpecker short where Woody disguises himself as a Russian visitor takes advantage of this dance to position himself to literally kick Wally Walrus in the butt but good.
• In The Simpsons, a file photo of Homer doing this comes back to haunt him when he's accused of being a Communist after heading into Russian waters with a nuclear submarine he unintentionally and accidentally commandeered.
• In the Looney Tunes cartoon Hare Tonic, Elmer Fudd is afraid he has Rabbititis, and rushes to see a doctor, who is Bugs Bunny in disguise. Bugs tests Elmer Fudd's reflexes by alternately hitting each knee with a rubber mallet, and alternates between each knee faster and faster until Elmer is doing this dance. Bugs soon joins him, giving away his disguise in the process.

  Elmer: HEY! You're not a doctor, you're that scwewy wabbit!

  • In another Elmer Fudd cartoon, The Big Snooze, Bugs tells him to "Run this way!" to escape. This includes: doing a silly run, running upside-down, hopping like a frog, running upside-down again, yelling "Hey!", doing this dance, and yelling "Hey!" again before repeating.
  • The short Tin Pan Alley Cats has a scene of Josef Stalin kicking Adolf Hitler's butt doing the dance, with Hitler replacing "Hey!" with "Heil!".
  • Funny enough, 1943's Pigs in a Polka (a take on The Three Little Pigs set to Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dances) has The Big Bad Wolf entering by going down a road doing the Russian squat dance. He even does a hand signal when turning left.
• In the Popeye short My Artistical Temperature, this is invoked when Popeye gets flung backward through a painting of a Russian man, with his legs sticking out.
• Done in The Critic by Franklin during a square dance with Ross Perot's running mate James Stockdale.
• This one of the Goofalototots' main shticks, the one that is based off Wakko from Animaniacs, in an episode of The Mask.
• In an episode of Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain are subjected to Pavlovian conditioning. Every time a bell rings, Pinky does That Russian Squat Dance, while every time a gong is sounded Brain sings "I'm A Little Teapot" complete with actions.
• In the Dilbert episode "The Dupey", after Dilbert's Dupey goes through its metamorphosis and becomes an ugly creature, Ratbert declares himself the cutest thing in the house again and does this dance.
• In Oggy and the Cockroaches, this is the cockroaches' victory dance.
• In Wonder Pets! episode "Save the Nutcracker", the dance is called The Bear Dance. The Mouse King does it as he makes off with the Wonder Pets' nutcracker, and the Wonder Pets follow suit as they give chase. The Mouse King's guards do the dance while they try to stop the Wonder Pets, who dance right past them.
• In the Disney Silly Symphonies version of The Grasshopper and the Ants, the grasshopper and a young ant do this dance a few times to the former's fiddle.
• In The Amazing World of Gumball, Gumball attempts to do this in the episode "The Bros," but his torso's too short and ends up kicking himself in the face repeatedly. (Alternatively, he's stretching his legs long enough to hit his own face.)
• The Cold Opening to the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Powerless" featured a battle between the "Batmen of All Nations" and the "Jokers of All Nations". One of the Jokers in question was a Cossack Joker, so of course his contribution to the fight was kicking at one of the Batmen in this manner.
• The intro of Count Duckula has the eponymous character doing this dance while playing a harmonica.
• One episode of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi has Ami and Yumi doing this dance during a dance competition that the two of them entered. They are even wearing a corresponding costume.
• In one episode of Darkwing Duck, Agent Grizzlikof does this dance as an attack against F.O.W.L. agents.

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Moscow, Moscow, throw your glasses at the wall, and good fortune to us all, ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, hey!
Moscow, Moscow, join us for a kazachok, we'll go dancing round the clock, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, hey!
Moscow, Moscow, drinking vodka all night long, keeps you happy, makes you strong, ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, hey!
Moscow, Moscow, come and have a drink and then, you will never leave again, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Hey!

—Dschinghis Khan, Moscow (English version)

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Kazotsky Kick

Probably the most Slavic dance taunt in the whole game. When you think of the Soviet Union, you think of one thing: the freedom to laugh and love and sing and dance!

If Soda Popinsk...

Alternative Title(s): Cossack Dance, Kazatsky

Two ballet dancers recount their journey fleeing Russia

The beauty and grace of their movements are a counterpoint to the frantic and frightening journey that brought ballet dancers Adrian Mitchell and Andrea Lassakova from Russia to New York City.

“We cannot take any flight. And we had this dog you know, so it was more difficult and we couldn't take a bus because they didn't accept dog. We couldn't take the train because after COVID, it was only allowed for Russians and Finnish people to take this train,” said Andrea Lassakova.

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What You Need To Know

• Adrian Mitchell and Andrea Lassakova spent the past seven years dancing with the Mikhailovsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia


• At the start of the war they were frantic to leave but found their flights cancelled and unable to take a train or bus so they packed up and took a cab to the Estonian border


• They were stopped at the Russian side and Mitchell was questioned intensely but was finally allowed to cross the border


• After two weeks traveling through many countries until they arrived in NYC and are staying to perform a fundraiser dance performance for Ukraine organized by iHeartDance NYC

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These two elite dancers, one from Los Angeles and one from Slovakia spent the past seven years dancing with the Mikhailovsky Ballet in St. Petersburg. But with both of their families urging them to leave before the war, they began planning their departure.

Still the invasion caught them off guard. Their flight to Budapest was cancelled, leaving them frantic.

“So we were forced to order a taxi to Estonian border and cross the border by foot,” said Lassakova.

But they were stopped at the Russian side and Mitchell was interrogated alone.

“We were at the passport control and a plain clothes secret police officer which is known as the FSB saw the passports he asked where are those passports from and the woman said ‘one from Slovakia, one from America.’ And he said send me the American,” said Adrian Mitchell.

The questioning was intense, “Why I was leaving Russia. What caused my decision? If I disliked Russis, if I disliked my job in Russia,” said Mitchell recalling those scary moments.

Mitchel pretended he did not speak Russian well, hoping the police would give up.

“I especially was careful. I'd been texting my mom in the car. And I deleted a lot of the texts if it was anything that could be, you know, even perceived as against Russia,” said Mitchell.

The scariest part, they agree was simply not knowing what might happen.

“That we would not be able to leave. No plane, no train, no bus. When we took this car, like we were not 100% sure. People said other people did it, but there was no proof,” said Lassakova.

After finally being able to cross the border, they traveled through seven countries and arrived in NYC on March 22. Soon after they were asked to perform Barber's Adaggio, at a gala fundraiser for Ukraine.

“For what we're dancing for, it'll be incredibly healing and cathartic for us to give everything to this pas de deux that’s extremely beautiful and emotional,” said Mitchell.

Mitchell studied in New York City before going to Russia to attend the same school that legends George Balanchine, Rudolph Nureyev, and Mikhail Baryshnikov did. And they all defected to the US.  

“And now we have almost like a new defectors like we have with Baryshnikov and Nuriyev and Balanchine, you know, leaving Russia because of what's happening and almost a new Iron Curtain that's kind of fallen on the country,” said Mitchell.

As he and Lassakova rehearse in a Midtown dance space, Mitchell sees a strong similarity with the 1985 film White Nights, starring Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines as two dancers trying to flee Russia.

And like in the film, Mitchell and Lassakova say they could not have done it alone. And they know they can't return. But the couple is happy to be here, where the dance community has embraced them and they can give back as well.

The pair will perform on Saturday night, April 9 at Florence Gould Hall on East 59th Street with a slate of dance virtuosos to raise funds for Ukraine. For details go to iheartdancenyc.com.

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	In 1992, he appeared alongside Dervla Kirwan in the TV adaptation of Melvin Bragg's book Time to dance .
One student, one gesture, one dance at a time.	Student after student, gesture after gesture, dance after dance .
Even if one person led the whole dance but allowed this switch to happen, it would be a lot safer, while at the same time, offering new aesthetics into the waltz.	Even if one partner were in the lead all the time but allowed the change, it would be much safer, and at the same time it would offer the waltz a new style.
Jeff and I dance partner dancing all the time with women and men and we love it.	Jeff and I are partners, dancing with both women and men, and we love it.
It's time for the Bat Mitzvah lady and the gentleman of her choice to take the dance floor.	And now it's time white dance Bat - mitzvah and its knight.
It's about a group of dreamers with talent to spare, taking New York City by storm, one dance number at a time... the cafeteria, the street...	with luggage of talents storming New York... one dance number for one performance cafeteria street...
Denise always texts me in time to see Dakota dance .	Denise always texts me so I can see Dakota dance.
Ford promised me a dance a long, long time ago.	Ford promised me a dance a long time ago.
A chic dress code is obligatory; it's time to flirt at the bars and to dance through the nights to the sound of famous DJs.	An elegant dress code is required: in bars you need to flirt, and in clubs - dance to the sounds of famous DJs.
Jeff, if you don't want to come to my dance you are free to go to the Sadie Hawkins dance , which will be happening at the same time across the cafeteria.	Jeff, if you don't want to come to my disco, you can safely go to the Sadie Hawkins disco, which will be held on the same time at the other end of the cafeteria.
I'll dance with you next time, Sol.	I'll dance with you next time, Saul. Let's go.
Transcending time, the insects of ages gone past dance livelily in amber.	Crossing time , insects from the past lively dance in amber.
The same is true, of course - we don't have time for too many more examples - but it's true of our music, of our dance , of our art, yoga, ayurveda, even Indian cuisine.	Of course the same can be said - for many examples we don't have time - the same can be said about our music, dances , art, yoga, Ayurveda, even Indian cuisine.
They dance in the academy, and at this time of year we do figures at five every morning.	But dance they are in the class, and now, in the summer, we go through the figures dance every morning, from five o'clock.
Okay, time now for the faculty dance .	Now a dance for teachers.
Do you remember the time at the frat when I was totally depressed... and he asked me to dance with him and he was really flirty?	Do you remember that party when I was depressed and he invited me to dance and was very, very flirtatious.
Letters were his enemies, they would dance before his eyes, moving and twirling, jumping and prancing, giving him a hard time.	Words were his enemies, they danced before his eyes, moving and spinning, jumping and galloping, torturing him.
Stetson, you said you'd dance with me every time you heard it.	Stetson, you promised to dance with me whenever you heard her.
I want a big round dance , fast and full of joy because it's sunshine, it's peace time and the weather is fine for the crops!	I want to see a circle dance, hora, fast and full of joy, because the sun is shining, because it is peaceful time is and the weather is great and it's a wonderful time for the harvest!
We dance and whatnot, and you know, we don't want to waste any time,
They had taken his shoes off. His bare feet hung off the end of the mattress and they were dancing all by themselves, one beside the other, in time, a little hurried and regular dance .	Patient undressed; his bare feet hung from the mattress. They were still twitching, they were moving in a small, rhythmic and fast dance.
They kiss for the first time at the dance .	They kiss for the first time at the dance .
It's time for the Bat Mitzvah lady and the gentleman of her choice to take the dance floor.	And now it's time the white dance Bat mitzvah and its gentleman.
So the next time you get up there and dance , just do it even worse, so when they're out there laughing, you can enjoy it.	So the next time you dance , dance even worse so that when everyone laughs, you enjoy it.
Well, hold onto your seats, ladies and gents, because today, for the first time ever, you will have the privilege of watching a song and dance act by our brand new headliners!	Well hold on to your seats ladies and gentlemen because today for the first time you will have the privilege of seeing a song and dance performance by our new headliners!
So it's safe to say we shouldn't waste time on such trifling matters as a school dance .	Therefore, we can say that we should not waste time on such trifling matters as a school ball.
Every time I smell it, I experience this overwhelming desire to dance with a beautiful woman.	When I smell this scent, I have an overwhelming desire to dance with a beautiful woman.
When is the last time we had a dance party?	And when was the last time we had a party?
Only this time, my sweet dance moves aren't going to be enough to win them over.	But this time my cute dance moves won't help me beat them.
But Aileen and her sister were almost instantly surrounded by young men seeking to be introduced and to write their names on dance-cards , and for the time being she was lost to view.	But both sisters were immediately surrounded by young people eager to be introduced to them, to sign up for the dance, and Cowperwood lost sight of Eileen for time .
You shouldn't have, at the time of the full moon... when cats wander and witches dance .	This should not have been done on a full moon, when cats are walking and witches are dancing.
Jake, when was the last time you pushed me around the dance floor?	Jake, when was the last time you dragged me around the gym?
They were made in winter, and it is summer now; spring-time for me, I think, a very dance of blossoms in blue skies.	They were invented in winter, and now it's summer... No, it's spring for me now, a real celebration of flowers under a blue sky.
Yes, bad water, rough water-great mountains dance up and down all the time.	Yes, bad water, stormy water - like water mountains bouncing up and down.
She dance here off and on, and I see her in the street from time to time.	She dances here sometimes and sometimes I see her on the street.
I'll just take a spin around the dance floor, quick change in the bathroom, and then race over in time to prep for the fashion preview.	I'll just twirl around the dance floor , have a quick change in the bathroom, and be there just in time for the pre-show prep.
Anyway, I just came in here to dance and pass the time, hang out with my, uh
Well, Edmund... ..I do hope you're not going to launch into sonnets every time you wish to take me for dinner and a dance .	Well, Edmund... I hope you're not going to speak in sonnets every time you want to invite me to dinner or to the dance .
You don't have to dance every time.	You don't have to dance all the time .
Now good folk, one and all 'Tis time to change both song and dance	It's time to change both song and dance.
I'll dance with you one at a time.	Let's take turns.
Many and many a time, in years past, they had deserted a dance to sit out on a balcony somewhere, and talk while Lester smoked.	How many times did they slip out of the ballroom and talk somewhere on the balcony, looking at the smoke of his cigar.
As Julie scans the universe, she finds the same remarkable dance happening time and time again.	As Julia scours the universe, she finds the same amazing dance over and over again.
Ooh, time to face the music, pay the piper, dance with the devil.	Oh, time answer, pay, dance with the devil.
Jikharev could not dance . He simply moved his feet about, and setting down the heels of his brightly polished boots, jumped about like a goat, and that not in time with the clamorous music.	Zhikharev doesn't know how to dance, he just minces his feet, stamps his brightly polished boots with his heels, jumps on the goats, and everything is out of step with the loud music.
I'll dance in my free time.	I will dance in my free time .
With T. by my side, a good time at the dance was all but in the cards.	If Ty goes with us to dance , I have all the cards in my hands.
Do you remember that undercover job we worked at that dance club that one time?	Remember when we were undercover, one time we worked at this dance club .
Hey, I think it's time we all pole dance .	Hey, I think it's time for us to have a pole dance.
In 1982, the band released the album Hot Space, a departure from their trademark seventies sound, this time being a mixture of rock, pop rock, dance , funk, and R&B.	In 1982 the band released Hot Space, a departure from their signature seventies sound, this time a mix of rock, pop rock, dance, funk and R&B.
He became engaged for the second time, to a girl whom he had met at a dance in Leicester.	The second time he got engaged to a girl he met at dancing in Leicester.
However, many dance and hip-hop musicians purposefully use this phenomenon, causing the mix to alter in volume rhythmically in time with the beat.	However, many dance and hip - hop musicians purposefully use this phenomenon, forcing mixes to rhythmically change in volume to the beat of the rhythm.
Canter time, canter timing or canter rhythm is a two-beat regular rhythmic pattern of a musical instrument or in dance steps within 34 time music.	Gallop time, time gallop or gallop rhythm is a two-bar regular rhythmic pattern of a musical instrument or dance steps in music 34 time .
This dance is walking to waltz time but walking most quietly and gracefully.	This dance goes along with the waltz, but it goes very quietly and gracefully.
On 19 January 2012, Daft Punk ranked No. 2 on Mixmag's Greatest Dance Acts of All Time, with The Prodigy at No. 1 by just a few points.	On January 19, 2012, Daft Punk ranked 2nd on Mixmag's list of the greatest dance numbers of all times , while The Prodigy ranked 1st by just a few points.
A square dance call may take a very short time or a very long time to execute.	Calling the square dance may take a very short time or a very long time to execute.
In 2016, the magazine listed her as the Greatest Dance Club Songs Artist of All Time.	In 2016, the magazine named her the greatest performer of the songs of the dance club of all times .
During this time, he was employed and mentored by fellow racketeer Frankie Yale, a bartender in a Coney Island dance hall and saloon called the Harvard Inn.	At this time he was hired and mentored by fellow racketeer Frankie Yale, a bartender at the dance hall and saloon of the Harvard Inn in Coney Island.
Modern ballroom dance has its roots early in the 20th century, when several different things happened more or less at the same time.	Modern ballroom dance has its roots in the early 20th century, when several different events took place more or less simultaneously.
Since there were no dance schools in Bay City at that time, Taylor opened her own.	Because there were no dance schools in Bay City at the time , Taylor opened her own.

Verb tenses - conjugation, forms and examples

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“Yesterday I passed the test, today I am writing a report, and tomorrow I will have a rest” - this is how we travel through time with the help of verbs when we tell our stories. Let's find out how the 3 tenses of verbs differ and how to determine them.

Definition of a verb

First, let's remember what a verb is.

The verb is an independent part of speech that denotes the action of an object.

Verbs answer the questions: “what to do?”, “what to do?”, “what did you do?”, “what did you do?”, “what are you doing?”, “what will you do?”.

Examples of verbs:

The verb has a set of grammatical features that is characteristic only for this part of speech:

1. Permanent features of the verb:

   a. view,

   b. transitivity,

   c. repayment,

   d. conjugation.

2. Variable signs of the verb:

   a. inclination,

   b. time,

   c. face,

   d. number,

   e. genus.

In this article we will talk about one of the non-permanent grammatical features of the verb - tense. And if you want to repeat the material about other features of verbs, then take a look at our other articles.

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What are verb tenses

In fact, the verb not only denotes the action of an object, but also carries information about what time this action refers to.

In Russian, verbs have three tenses:

1. A verb in the present tense indicates that the action is taking place at the moment of speech.

2. A verb in the future tense is a sign that the action will take place after the moment of speech.

3. The past tense of the verb indicates that the action has already happened before, before the moment of speech.

The type of the verb directly determines the tense in which the verb can be used:

• imperfective verbs have forms of all three tenses ( dances - danced - will dance, cooks - cooked - will cook ),

• perfective verbs have only past and future tenses ( danced - will dance, cooked - will cook ).

Remember!

In the present and future tenses, verbs change according to numbers and persons, and in the past - according to numbers and genders.

To figure out how to distinguish verb tenses from each other, let's look at each of them with examples.

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Present tense

If the verb denotes an action that is happening at this moment and answers the question “what is he doing?” is a verb in the present tense.

Examples of verbs in the present tense:

• girl (what is she doing?) dancing ;

• dad (what is he doing?) cooking ;

• fish (what is he doing?) swimming ;

• sun (what is it doing?) sets ;

• birch (what does it do?) costs .

Not like everyone else

Perfective verbs (that is, those that answer the question “what to do?”) Are not used in the present tense. For example, the verb dance is only past ( danced ) and future ( dance ) time.

Present tense verbs change in person and number and have a different set of endings depending on the conjugation.

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Verb endings of I conjugation in the present tense

	1 person	2nd person	3rd person
singular	i buy ayu I write y	you eat you write eat	she writes em
plural	we buy eat we write eat	buy you write you write	they buy they write ut

Verb endings of II conjugation in present tense

	1 person	2nd person	3 person
singular	i sit y I lepl yu	you sit ish you lep ish	he sid it she lep it
plural	we sit im we lep im	you sit ite you lep ite	they sid yat oni lep yat

Future tense

The future tense verb denotes an action that will take place and answers the questions “what will he do?”, “what will he do?”. These actions will be implemented after the moment when we talk about them, that is, in the future.

Examples of verbs in the future tense:

• girl (what will she do?) will dance ;

• girl (what will she do?) will dance ;

• Petya (what will he do?) will make a postcard ;

• dog (what will he do?) barks ;

• we (what are we going to do?) we will cook dinner .

Verbs in the future tense change in person and number.

The future tense of a verb in Russian can be simple or compound. And here we again need to recall the concept of the form of verbs.

Simple future tense form perfective verbs - those that answer the question "what to do?". Examples of simple future tense:

• cook - I'll cook;

• carry - you carry;

• attach - she will attach;

• fly away - we will fly away;

• move away - you will move away;

• answer - they will answer.

The complex future tense is actually not that complicated, but it is called so because it is composed of two words: the verb to be in the personal form and the infinitive of the semantic verb. Examples of a complex future tense:

• cook - I will cook;

• wear - you will wear;

• do - she will do;

• fly - we will fly;

• walk - you will walk;

• answer - they will answer.

Past tense

A past tense verb denotes an action that happened in the past and answers the questions “what did you do?”, “what did you do?”. These actions have already taken place up to the moment when we are talking about them.

Examples of past tense verbs:

• girl (what did she do?) danced ;

• girl (what were you doing?) dancing ;

• dad (what did he do?) cooked dinner ;

• dad (what was he doing?) cooking dinner ;

• apple tree (what did you do?) grew in the garden ;

• Polina (what did you do?) made cocoa ;

• chick (what was he doing?) was jumping along the branches .

In the past tense, verbs change according to gender and number.

The grammatical indicator of the past tense of a verb in Russian is the suffix -l- . It occurs in most verbs, although there are exceptions. For example, verbs with stems ending in -eret- form the masculine past tense without this suffix: die - died, lock - locked. But in the feminine and neuter forms the suffix is ​​in place: died l a, locked l a .

Suppletivism of stems

Some verbs form the past tense not from the stem from which the infinitive is formed. For example, the past tense of the verb to go is walked, walked, walked. Linguists call this phenomenon suppletivism.

Table "Tenses of verbs in Russian"

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Times	Answer questions	Indicate actions	Examples
Real	what does it do? what are they doing? what am I doing? what are you doing?	which take place in the present tense, at the moment of speech	draws draw draw drawing
Past	what did you do? What did do? What did do? what did they do?	which have already happened or happened in the past tense, before the moment of speech	painted painted painted painted
Future	what will he do? what will they do? what will do? what will they do?	which will take place in the future tense, after the moment of speech	will draw draw will draw draw

How to determine the tense of a verb

The easiest way to determine the tense is to ask a question to the verb. In what tense we ask the question, the verb is in the same tense. For example:

• Marina (what was she doing?) was reading;

• you (what are you doing?) going;

• we (what are we going to do?) write down the examples.

In addition, pay attention to the grammatical features of the verb. We have already listed them above, now let's put them all together in a handy table.

Table "Grammatical signs of verb tenses"

Present	Past tense	Future tense
Personal forms of conjugated imperfective verbs have different endings depending on the conjugation: - duma yu , duma eat , duma no , duma em —I conjugation; - View U , View See , Views MACH , VISISE YAT.	Suffix -l- with stem of both types: read, read . Suppletivism basics: go - go . Base on -heret without suffix -l- : lock up - locked up, die - died .	A simple future - from a perfect look: caress - caress Difficult future - verb to be in personal form + infinitive of the main meaning: you will answer, you will love .

An example of changing the verb in tenses

And finally, to consolidate - the paradigm of changing verbs in all three tenses.

Please note that the perfective verb draw does not have a present tense, and the future tense is formed differently for different types of verbs.

For clarity, we have highlighted the grammatical indicators of tenses: personal endings, the suffix -l- and the verb be in the future tense.

draw et

	Past tense			Present		future tense
	Unit number	Mn. number		Unit number	Mn. number	Unit number	Mn. number
male genus	see l , draw l	see l and draw l and	1st person	see , mo yu	see im , mo em	will be see is , draw	will be see is , draw eat
Female genus	see l a, draw l a		2nd person	see ish , mo eat	see or , mo et	see draw eat
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