Oleg means the supple sway of a dancer. Tambulilingan is the Bahasa Bali for Bumblebee. Oleg Tambulilingan, a combination of Oleg dance and Bumblebee dance, was created by I Ktut Maria in 1952, to express the actions of a Bumblebee couple with all of their supple feminity and lively masculinity. Recently it has become the favourite duet number included in the Legong performance, the performance of several single dances. The female, who appears first, dance smoothly in her long tailed Kain Songket cloth with the long silken scarves hanging from her sides. She depicts the happy bumblebee, enjoying a bright day, and flying here and there to sip honey from any flower. In the middle of her dance appears the male bumblebee, stepping in shyly observing the beauty, but then, attracted by the appearance of the female he tries to come closer and closer. Accompanied by the Gong Kebyar orchestra, with its rising flops of drums and cymbals, both of them moving faster and faster around the stage, especially after the male actions respond to the female. They flit and flirt, and in the ens of the dance they leave the stage together, hand in hand.
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