How to pronounce “fok” in English

I trained at a school in New Jersey with a woman named Irine Fokine who was the nieceof Michael Fokine who was a very prolific choreographer, contemporary, slightly earlier than Balanchine but they did a lot of stuff around the same time. So she came from a huge,heavy duty ballet background and sort of got me the training that I needed and between she and my mother kind of steered me along the right path to be where I needed to be