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What is BUDOTS?
 BUDOTS
Slang for ‘slacker” in Visayan Language.

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 BUDOTS
A song and dance genre.

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A combination of a tribal dance
and a Pinoy’s imagination. The
steps are based on the Badjao
dance. Badjao drum beats mixed
with techno music equals
“Bistik” or Bisayan Tikno.

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 Allegedly first performed by
unemployed bums who loiter the
streets of Davao City.

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Origin of BUDOTS
Originated in Davao City in the
year 2010

Which eventually spread in

Bisaya-speaking regions.

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Sherwin Calumpang Tuna, “DJ Love” or “Lablab”
The creator behind the techno music genre that
would complement the budots dance.

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Sherwin Calumpang Tuna, “DJ Love” or “Lablab”
He makes the music, directs and edits the music
videos, and does the online promotion.

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Sherwin Calumpang Tuna, “DJ Love” or “Lablab”
He shifted the definition of budots from simply
bumming around to an art form of expression.

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On recent years, budots took
the nation by storm.

Appearing in memes, TV
shows, news features, and
used in political campaigns.

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 What came first?

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BUDOTS MUSIC BUDOTS DANCE

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 What came first?

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BUDOTS DANCE
"The music only came after the dance." -DJ Love, 2019

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BUDOTS
By INNO ABALOS
WHAT IS A
DANCE?
Dance is the type of art performance consisting of
sequences of human action that
ART have been chosen.
This movement has artistic and symbolic meaning
PERFORMANCE and is
recognized as a dance within a given community
SEQUENCE OF by performers and observers. 02
HUMAN ACTION
 "Budots" is one of the biggest
dance crazes in the Philippines
and many people still dance
this kind of dance today.

The term budots is tambay's

BUDOTS slang phrase, which means

people who have no permanent
employment or no employment
at all.

These people therefore have

plenty of time to think of
something senseless that makes
sense and makes a name for the
03 entire country.