

According to Vice, the budots dance compilation videos features " Myspace-era graphics, free-wheeling dances, and the names 'CamusBoyz' or 'DJ Love.'" He also choreographed dance steps for his friends to perform on his budots music videos, which were uploaded on his YouTube channel since February 3, 2009.


īudots dance was used to be performed with foreign electronic dance music until Sherwin Calumpang Tuna, an internet café manager who goes by the stage name "DJ Love" or "Lablab," created a new techno music genre that would complement the dance using Fruity Loops, which locals referred to as " bistik" (short for Bisayang Tikno, "Visayan techno" ). Writer and musician Dominic Zinampan claims the connection between budots and the Badjao people remains inconclusive, as it is hard to tell which influenced the other. Despite its freestyle movements, the poses in budots dance are possibly inspired by the Badjao people who perform as street buskers, either through variations of the traditional Pangalay dance or their indigenous martial arts such as Kuntaw and Langka Baruwang. One of its characteristic moves features opening and closing the knees while in a low squat, the arms swaying and pointing at random. The style seems "worm-like" or "ragdoll-like" in nature, wriggling the hips while moving the arms and legs in slow movements. īudots dance has eventually made its way to unemployed bums who loiter Davao City. A budots dancer places his fist on his nose, similar to how "rugby boys" sniff glue through plastic bags.
