You can say that Mengiluk is the actual traditional dance of the Tausugs, especially in Sabah, not Daling daling. Daling daling is an improvised Mengiluk.
I chose Tawau and Likas because these are the places with the most number of migrant Tausugs and Bajaus. Local Suluks stopped the dances because they led to fights due to jealousies.
The migrants set up dance teams for Wedding performances. Whereas locals tend to go for modern dances like Malay dances and western dances, the Filipinoes offered traditional dances.
It started in Likas and Semporna, a town near Tawau, but spread to other parts of Sabah. It is up to the inhabitants of Sabah to resurrect these cultures.
During my brother's wedding, my mother even performed the Suluk culture of putting money to the dances body. The bajaus also did it in Semporna.
At Kota Kinabalu, we called a troupe from the Sabah cultural dance to perform but they rely on a video of the dance to emulate. Not their natural dance so not so elegant. They can dance Sumazau and Joget very well though.
By going to youtube, I noticed that there are many other groups from the Likas area who are able to perform these traditional Tausug and Bajau dances.
At the east coast of Sabah, you can see them perform, the same group actually, from Sandakan to Tawau, but I do not see the culture of putting money except when my daughter in law danced in front of her husband, in Kunak. My wife put money on her body but not me. Only women did these, but I noticed that a few men did it in some other places.
However this practise of putting money on the body of the performer will not work with Mengiluk because it is too fast.
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