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Tutting is a contemporary abstract interpretive street dance this is althogh usually done in the hip hop Genre style modeled after Egyptian hieroglyphics. The term Tutting is derived from the name of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. Tutting is performed with attention to the musics' rhythm by altering the position of the body and limbs in a synchronized, robotic manner.
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[edit] Moves
The size of poses, or tuts, varies from large body tuts to intricate finger tuts. The transitions between poses can be elaborate and expressive. Moreover, certain sub-styles of tutting have emerged such as boxing which consists of creating and manipulating box-like or rectangular shapes predominantly with ones arms and a liquid-influenced style that some tutters use to make the joints appear as hinges that can then be manipulated by another body part. Also, tutting skills use fingers and arms freely to create geometrical shapes; such as boxes, hearts, etc.
Both boxing and the hinge illusion are special applications of the mime concept fixed point. Much as a mime conveys a wall by always keeping one hand on the wall, or shows a rope by always keeping one hand on the rope, a tutter shows a shape by always maintaining at least one side of the shape. To do this, a tutter will use his body parts to assemble a shape segment by segment and disassemble it in the same piecemeal fashion.
The electronic dance community has played a large role in the increasing robustness of tutting due to the more abstract nature of its own predominant style, liquiding. Tutting is highly regarded in both the electronic and popping communities for its technical depth and distinctiveness to the extent that a sufficiently dedicated member from either may use it as their dominant style and is occasionally referred to as a tutter. As such, tutters will incorporate popping or liquiding in their performance.
[edit] Popularity
It has been gaining popularity with young groups and performers posting their videos on youtube and social media, with MTV show America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC) making this type of dancing more mainstream (for example, season five winners Poreotics). Korean boy group Super Junior also used it in their song "Sorry, Sorry".
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- the ART of Tutting (Hok of Quest Crew & Moon of I.Am.Me Crew on YouTube
- Finger Tutting (Tiny Love, pioneer of Finger Tutting on YouTube
- Arm Tutting on YouTube
- Arm & Finger Tutting (Demian of Royal Crest on YouTube
- Tutting Routine/Choreography (Mike Song of Kaba Modern, YoMaMa crew and Kinjaz on YouTube
- Group Tutting Performance (Poreotics/Poreotix, winners of ABDC5) on YouTube
- Tutting used in Commercial on YouTube
