Prisiadki

Two basic techniques are possible.Тимошенко Л.Г., "Русский народный танец: региональные особенности", [https://koi.tspu.ru/koi_books/Timoshenko/5.htm Chapter 5. Основные движения русского народного танца], Tomsk, Tomsk State Pedagogical University, 2013. In one way, "full prisiadki", the dancer crouches on one leg while another one is thrust out straight and repeats the same alternating the crouching leg while staying in the crouching position.[https://cr.middlebury.edu/bulgakov/public_html/C20.html#anchor119532 "Chapter 20. Azazello's Cream"] - Comments to Bulgakov's Master and Margarita In another way, "half-prisiadki" (полуприсядки), the dancer quickly crouches and then jumps upСловарь современного русского литературного языка, 1951, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4f1kAAAAMAAJ&q=%D0%B2%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8F%D0%B4%D0%BA%D1%83 p. 777] making a low thrust with one leg sideways or on the heel.[https://art.vlsu.ru/index.php?id=286 ПЛАН БАЛЬНО-РЕЙТЕНГОВОЙ СИСТЕМЫ ДИСЦИПЛИНЫ «Народно-сценический танец»]

File:Zagloba w prysiudach.png dancing w prysiudach, an illustration to With Fire and Sword (1885) by Henryk SienkiewiczHenryk Sienkiewicz, Ogniem i Mieczem, [https://books.google.com/books?id=MCJOkc4oM_YC&pg=PA52 p.52] (scroll down to the illustration insert)

• Quote: "Zagłoba w prysiudach przysiadał, tak podkowami bił w podłogę, że aż pot obfity spływał mu z czoła" [Zagłoba squatted vprisiadku and hit the floor with his boots so hard that sweat flowed from his forehead abundantly."]]]

It is a distinct element of a number of East Slavic dances, such as Ukrainian Kozachok and Hopak or Russian Barynya and Kamarinskaya. It also entered Polish culture. For example, the novel With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz in several places describes how people were dancing w prysiudach, including the jovial character Onufry Zagłoba.

Early evidence of vprisiadku dancing comes from a mid-fourtheenth century Psalter, in which an initial of letter A depicts a skomorokh playing gusli and dancing vprisiadku.Russell Zguta, Russian Minstrels: A History of the Skomrorokhi, 2017, {{isbn|1512819506}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bU0rEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA25 p. 25]

In improvisational folk dances prisiadki involved fancy footwork: in addition to thrusting a free leg it can be thrown up onto the hip of the support leg, rolling from the toe of the support leg onto the knee and back, doing splits, etc.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140116094617/http://www.ethnomuseum.ru/section62/2092/2093/4343.htm Пляска], Russian Museum of Ethnography

Laura J. Olson remarks that numerous professional Cossack troupes and choirs created in the Soviet Union produced a stereotype of Cossacks as "swashbuckling sword twirlers and lithe, masculine dancers who could leap extremely high or perform innumerable prisiadki". She further remarks that these fancy performances did not directly originate from Cossack traditions but that they were transformed and codified by 19th century Russian ballet.Laura J. Olson, Performing Russia: Folk Revival and Russian Identity, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cTVW85OqfwkC&pg=PA162 p. 162]

Dance scenes on ancient Mesopotamian/Babylonian artifacts lead researchers to suggest that these ancient people executed something like prisiadka,Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Volume 4, [https://books.google.com/books?id=3OYpAQAAMAAJ&q=%22squat+dance%22 p.2611]Selma Jeanne Cohen (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, vol. 4, 1998, {{ISBN|0195123085}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=nhsKAQAAMAAJ&q=%22squat+dance%22 pp. 356, 357] and some even suggested that "this kind of dance became the basis for the development of a certain style of Cossack dance".

File:Kozak Taniec crop.jpg|Rusyn folk dance "Kozak"

File:09022422 zhdakha.jpg|Kozak

File:Метелица Малороссийский сборник.jpg|Metelitsa

File:Kamarinskaya.jpg| Kamarinskaya

File:Русская пляска Камаринский.jpg| Kamarinsky

File:Камаринский мужик.jpg| Kamarinsky muzhik. Lubok

File:Частушка Камаринский.jpg|Kamarinsky dance and chastushka

File:Russian folklor berezka concert national ethnic vintage decor-1194851.jpg|Folk troupe Beryozka

File:A man, in a satin tunic and fur hat, dancing a "Cossack" measure in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1899-1908.jpg|Man demonstrating a prisiadka

File:Танец Трепак crop.jpg| Trepak

File:Kurikka tanssii ripaskaa.jpg|Matti Kurikka dancing Ripaska (Trepak)

File:Soldiers dancing in barracks.jpg| Soldiers dancing in barracks

File:Hammond Slides Navy Dancers.jpg|Yablochko

File:Album Tangoville sur mer Danse espagnole et danse russe Otero, Urribaren, Prince Troubetzkoy, G.20678-4.jpg|"Spanish dance" and "Russian dance"

The ability to dance prisiadki on prosthetic legs in a Barynya dance for a military pilot was the climax of the patriotic novel {{ill|The Story of a Real Man (novel)|lt=The Story of a Real Man|ru|Повесть о настоящем человеке}} by Boris Polevoy.Oxane Leingang. [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-74377-2_4 "Stalin’s Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet Literature"], In: Amputation in Literature and Film. Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "Loss"

The controversial Dancing Cossacks advertisement for the New Zealand National Party criticized the compulsory superannuation scheme Labour Government. In the television advertisement a group of cartoon Cossacks move vprisiadku across the screen suggesting that this policy could lead to Soviet-type communism.{{cite web |url= http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/media-and-politics/4/4 |title= Dancing Cossacks, 1975 – Journalists and politicians: an uneasy relationship – Media and politics |publisher= Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |accessdate= 20 July 2012}}{{cite web |url= http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/video/dancing-cossacks |title= Dancing Cossacks political TV ad – New Zealand History Online |publisher= New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage |accessdate= 20 July 2012}}

In Street Fighter II fighting game, Gorbachev rounds up Zangief and a bunch of KGB agents, and together with them he does the "Russian squat dance", for a celebration.[https://medium.com/@paolojcruz/what-can-street-fighter-ii-teach-us-about-early-90s-geopolitics-48afebccecf4 What Can Street Fighter II Teach Us About Early ’90s Geopolitics?]

The 1936 Polish film Bohaterowie Sybiru has an episode where Polish insurgents exiled to Siberia are partying with Siberian peasants. A young Russian lad does a fancy squatwork, after that a Polish officer says "I can do the same", and he does. After that the camera zooms out and shows that he does this sitting on a low stool.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZyvto6zygg&t=1435s W starym kinie - Bohaterowie Sybiru (1936)], an episode with prisiadki

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