Troika_(dance)
Troika (dance)
Russian folk dance
Troika is a Russian performance dance based on Russian folk dances. The Russian word troika means three-horse team/gear, and the dancers imitate the prancing of horses pulling a sled or a carriage.[1]
The first version was created by choreographer Nadezhda Nadezhdina for her folklore dance troupe Beroyzka in 1948.[2] Since then this dance is included into repertoires of virtually all Russian ethnographic dance ensembles. Initially, it was a dance for a man and two women,[3] but later choreographies with other combinations were created, such as one woman and two men or three women.[4]