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hands folding themselves into hieroglyphs while the rest of you stays suspiciously still
means A street-dance style built from sharp, angular arm and hand movements that create geometric shapes, often right angles, in homage to the stiff poses of ancient Egyptian art.
from Named for King Tut — Tutankhamun — whose flat, angular profile in Egyptian wall paintings (limbs locked at crisp right angles) gave dancers their visual template. The style grew out of American street and funk dance culture of the late 20th century, where movers turned those frozen hieroglyphic poses into a living vocabulary of the hands. (Worth noting: 'tut' here is unrelated to the disapproving 'tut-tut,' which is simply the sound of a tongue click written down.)
- origin
- named for King Tut's angular ancient Egyptian poses
- geometry
- every move locks into 90-degree right angles
- relative
- kin to finger tutting, a miniature wrist version
- hits
- popularized through viral street and music videos
- discipline
- stillness matters as much as the motion
tut-tutting in parliament — common auditory response from uk mps during opposing speeches, heard regularly in house of commons recordings