Is a Courtship dance of Davao Del Sur

imitating forest bird during mating

seasons. It is perform of the rhythm of
faglong. The dancers revolved around the
two male bird in pursued in the female
bird. A tabular cloth called a malong is
used by the female dancers to represent
the birds wing.
Basic Movement
 All the movement of the blit blaan is done
by the knees slightly bend there is springing
movement of both feet that is common to
both male and female dancers.
 Entrance:

 Running steps with their

malong grip around their
neck while they hold both
ends. The arms glide
alternately to right and left to
stimulate flying. 32 cnts.
Figure 1.
 Execute 4 whirl turn to the right in place
with the arms in twisted T position. 8
Counts
 Face back and raise both arms of the malong
up and down alternately to the right and
left. 16 counts
Figure 2
 Bend run diagonally forward to the right and
left and right again . 16 counts
 Do running steps backward while pulling
the right arm downward. 8 counts
 Run forward and backward as they raise
both arms up and down. 8 counts
Figure 3
 Turn to the left with their left arm in their in
waist and right arm raise. The right arm
raise with one ends of the malong and let it
go. Turn around and rasie and raise left arm
up and down. 16 counts
Entrance of the male dancers
 The male dancers jump towards the female
dancers while holding the malong both ends
with the springing movement of the feet
and raise each of the malong alternately to
the right and left. 16 counts
 The female dancers execute the daring
movement one to stimulate the fixing of the
hair, the other put her makeup, while the
other fixed her dressed by swinging of the
malong. 16 counts
Figure 4
 One of the female catches the attention of
the male bird. Both males fling their
malong to captured the female birds. 16
counts.
 The other female do whirl turn to the right
and left .
 The male bird execute motion of invitation
with one hand while holding waist of the
captured female. 16 counts
 Using hand motion the captured female
show preference toward a male and version
toward the other.
 The female captured break free and run to
join the other female bird.
 Figure 5
 After the female birds free. The male bird now
stimulate fighting, through leaping, back rolls, and
kicks in between the springing movement of the feet.
They use their malong for striking . 16 counts

 The female spread their malong open and with their

hand inside, they run forward and do whirl turn to the
right 8 counts, and they do forwardly in place and do
whirl turn to the right 8 counts. They run around to
escape the fighting with gliding movements. 16 counts
 They move sideward to the left with turn to the right
they fling their malong over the right shoulder. 8
counts
 They now execute movement to stimulate
confusion and fear. They do fast step left and
right motion of the feet with the brush on
the right. 16 counts
 Finale of the male birds.
 After more leaping and turning, one male
birds jump in place while twirling their
malong he bend in squatting position, 4
counts
 And the male birds leap to mount the other
shoulder while the other male bird raise his
left arms.
 Finale of the female birds.
 Spring feet movement the female fling their
malong back, front. They swing up and
down to the right and left and end with a
pose. 16 counts
 The right arm is up while holding the ends
of the malong while left is down holding
down. 4 counts
 The left foot is forward across is pointed
forward across the right.
What are the Dances of B’laan ?
 B'laan Dance-(Maral)......
* The B'laan Dance ceremony is often performed
when the authority of the Datu (Fulong) has been held
in trust and marital status to assume the
responsibility of the Datu (Fulong).

*The admulak is a dance depicting bird hunting with bow

and arrow.
*The amti is a dance drama on fishing, which depicts a
river fisher going through his daily routine of setting
traps.

*The muhag sugon is a dance drama on gathering

honey.

*The asbulong which depicts a healing ritual.

The blit –blaan is a courtship dance of the B’laan of

Davao del Sur imitating forest birds during the mating
season.
 If you are interested with other dances from
the B'laan people, the list below could be
helpful in case you're in need of the dance
names: * Amti * Admulak * Aslubong *
Binanogbanog * Binatobato * Falimac B'laan
(B'laan Sword) * Karal Kafi * Maral Fieu Awas
* Maral Tagunggo * Muhag Sugon * Udo