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Tutting is the name given to a contemporary abstract interpretive dance style that exploits the body's ability to create geometric positions and movements, predominantly with the use of right angles. It is performed with minute attention to the musical rhythm, typically by altering positions in a stop-and-go fashion. In music, the term slapping is often used to refer to two different though related playing techniques on the double bass and on the (electric) bass guitar. ...
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Electric boogaloo is a style of funk dance and street dance closely related to popping. ...
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∠, the angle symbol. ...
History
Though Tutting is currently a prevalent form in the closely related funk and electronic dance communities, its history, as with most dances, is not well documented. Funk dance or funk styles refer to dance styles that were originally danced to funk music. ...
Electronic dance music (EDM) is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk. ...
'Tutting' referring to a distinct style gained usage with the advent of funk styles during the early 1980s. Within that community, dancers would use tutting poses while performing popping routines. One would 'hit' one position and then move immediately onto the next, similar in action to the robot popping routine only slightly faster. These movements made use of the wrists, elbows, and shoulders to create the desired right angle. Funk dance or funk styles refer to dance styles that were originally danced to funk music. ...
In music, the term slapping is often used to refer to two different though related playing techniques on the double bass and on the (electric) bass guitar. ...
The robot (or mannequin) is an illusionary dance style often combined with popping that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin. ...
Presumably, the dance began as a mimicking of the angular poses common to ancient Egyptian art. In the early half of the 20th century, these poses were performed by various groups for comical effect (see the article Walking like an Egyptian). Tutting as a whole or certain tutting moves have been referred to as 'King Tut'; it is likely from this colloquialism for the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, as a representative of ancient Egypt in western popular culture, that the form gained its name. For this reason, Tutting is sometimes incorrectly identified as the related cultural phenomenon "Walking like an Egyptian". This article has been tagged since January 2007. ...
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Pharaoh was the ancient Egyptian name for the office of kingship. ...
Recent developments Although tutting as a style has maintained its close ties to popping, it has since evolved to making use of a much wider range of positions and movements. The size of poses, or tuts, now varies from large body tuts to intricate finger tuts. The transitions between poses have become more 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.
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 now highly regarded in both the electronic and funk dance 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, practitioners of tutting will take from other funk styles in their performance, just as for instance, poppers would incorporate tutting in their own style during its formative years.
Moves 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
With practice this method can be used to create elaborate geometric patterns. When these patterns are formed only with the arms the effect is similar to boxing as described above, but now tutters are learning to incorporate all of their body parts to create a more dramatic effect.
See also Vogue (Performance) is a form of modern dance characterized by photo model-like poses integrated with angular, linear and rigid arm, leg, and body movements. ...
The robot (or mannequin) is an illusionary dance style often combined with popping that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin. ...
Liquid dancing (or liquiding) is a form of gestural, interpretive dance that sometimes involves pantomime. ...
In music, the term slapping is often used to refer to two different though related playing techniques on the double bass and on the (electric) bass guitar. ...
External links - Community of Tutters (registration required)
Video clips
Demonstrations of tutting - Tutter demonstrating CUBISM, with music at YouTube
- Tutter demonstrating full body fixed line style, with music at YouTube
- Tutter using fingers and full body, silent at Google Video
- Tutter focusing on fingers, with music at YouTube
- Tutter in a short clip, silent at YouTube
- Tutting and some popping, full body, low music at YouTube
- Tutting, top body, moderate music at YouTube
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