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Myanmar
Entertainment
of various
kinds
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This
is not very
developed but it has its charm
In
the night its more or less Yangon
nightlife with nightclub shows,
cultural shows, marionette
performance, theatre, cinemas,
plenty of karaoke with, discos,
nightclubs, bars and exotic
restaurants sometimes with dinner
show and a nightlife fashion show
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A
nightlife fashion show is
the local substitution of a modern
show elsewhere, since there are
strict limits set by the
government, this is mainly as a add on
in various discos and restaurants.
All this
is
not on a level with
Thailand or
Kuala Lumpur
but it is
constantly improving. This is not
because they are not capable to handle this, this is because they
are not allowed to do it.
Actually at the end of the day what
does it matter. The reason why we
refer to Thailand is because the
Myanmar's always try to copy
Thailand in many ways, most of this
happen in Chinatown, actually that's
the only one in the world where no
Chinese
language writings are
visible, comparing this to
Hat Yai
Thailand, or
Kuala Lumpur
Chinatown etc. it's
really strange.
An interesting nightlife is going on
near and opposite the Shanghai
Shopping Center complex after 8pm.
This is at Theingizay.
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At this places pretty
girls are around, videos and movies are in our
video
section. There are
videos and clips also on
different subjects like on Bagan, the
Ayeyarwady
or Irrawaddy River, Mandalay, Mt. Popa on
nightclub fashion show
and more.
Myanmar entertainment is not
as sophisticated as in Thailand but they have a
certain charm.
At cinemas Bollywood
movies are shown plus local productions, Chinese
films and other. Plenty free
videos and computer
games are
available in many shops at different
shopping centers and
at one special shop
close to the Trader
Hotel, almost
opposite
Bogyoke
Market, right in
downtown,
they sell DVD with
the newest computer software
but the
quality is sometimes
poor.
Start your private party in
discos and
nightclubs in
and
add a new twist to
increase the fun
quotient, its as
usual a night of
drinking and adventures
with the women, depending on
the size of
your wallet.
However
there are no strippers, there are
no strip clubs in
the country, trust
me, even if
some other
websites try
to tell
this, they
lie.
What is
existent are
women,
food, music, exotic
cocktails,
plus
sometimes
folklore dance
shows as a
dinner show
in one of the big
hotels. Pubs and bars are also in the big
hotels e.g. a Irish style pub in the Sedona hotel and a
hot disco in the Kandawgyi Palace hotel both with
pretty ladies around, its just more or less the same as elsewhere
in Asia.
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Fashion
show
here is a
video
Folklore Dance Show
at Myanmar
entertainment |
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A Pwe
Traditional pwes are the
dramatic entertainments
inseparable from the many festivals. No charge is made to
watch these open- air performances. They are paid for by public
subscription, or out of the
generosity of some citizen and in
this way acquires social prestige.
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Nat
Pwe Myanmar entertainment |
At nine o'clock in
the evening the celebrations began. On a raised
platform two clowns were giving a slapstick
performance, which was
funny
enough — even when not a word of the dialogue could
be understood.
At regular intervals a dancer came in and sang and
danced, she was a tiny, doll-like girl.
As soon as she began to dance she became
transfigured. She had all
the fire of a Spanish
flamenco dancer, plus the
snake-like head and eye
movements of an Indian
entertainment dancer.
To this she added
the specialty of thrusting out her arms
in such extraordinary positions that they appeared |
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to
be dislocated at the elbows.
As she leaped and cavorted she repeatedly kicked
away from her prancing but invisible feet the
long skirt and train of the ancient Burmese
court-dress she wore — a difficult feat which has been incorporated
into the formal movements of the dance.
Sometimes the clowns joined in, dancing in
mimicry of the actress, who, as soon as she had
finished her piece, would suddenly relapse into a
set pose, turn her back on the public, make up her
face or drink tea.
This performance would go on until
late in the morning, when straight theatrical shows,
lasting until dawn, would begin
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Nat Pwe and
Yangon
entertainment |
Pwe
Myanmar
entertainment dancer
sing and dance |
in other
parts of the pwe-ground. For over four hours these
clowns would pour outa stream of extempore wit
and topical allusion.
They adore comedy and although the
strait-laced classical plays of neighboring
countries have been introduced in the past, they are
soon so completely
transformed as to become
unrecognizable.
Thus the Ramayana, the entertainment
play of Sanskrit origin, which runs to some sixty
thousand verses and takes three days to present in
an abbreviated form, could never survive in Myanmar.
Most up market hotels
in
Yangon and elsewhere offer some kind of
nightlife entertainment. Some offer native shows
with dancing and a Myanmar orchestra as
background music and maybe some artistic
show like in the Kandawgyi Palace Hotel every evening
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Dancer
& singer |
A large and very
decorative
xylophone |
During
the day a large stage had been put
up with a proper drop-curtain, and
for about an hour before the show
started a full-scale
orchestra had set to work to
attract an audience.
The
music instruments
consisted of a
heavily carved and gilded
circular frame containing
seventeen gongs of various
diameters and another
housing as many drums.
There
was a large and very
decorative, boat-shaped
xylophone, several big
drums and several pairs of
cymbals.
The air was
sketched in by a player upon
a hne - the flute terminating in a horn, which
produces notes of a
singularly penetrative
quality.
Through the wide cracks in
the makeshift
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Puppet or marionettes
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stage-carpentry, the
puppet-masters could be
seen, engaged in prayer for
some time before the show
began.
Presumably these
prayers are to the
thirty-seven nats, the gods
of ancient Burma, to
whom they also make
offerings of food.
When the
curtain rose
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the senior puppet
entertainment master leaned
over the low backdrop and
sang to
the audience a lengthy
description of this drama to be presented.
The curtain was then
lowered, and when it was again
raised, the stage was occupied by a
puppet dressed as a peasant carrying
a large sword, and a dragon of the
Burmese or serpentine variety.
After
solo dances, followed by a vigorous
combat, the dragon was defeated and,
since to show the taking of life -
even that of a mythological monster
- would have been an impropriety,
the Burmese St.
George mounted the dragon's back and
rode away. This
curtain raiser was followed by a
dance by two genial-looking
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Chin Dancer |
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giants
and then a series of dances by
various birds, a white horse and a
monkey. Each
of these performers had its
signature tulle which was crashed
out by the orchestra whenever it
made its appearance.
The dances were
extremely funny, the puppets
or marionettes being
handled with amazing skill. In
particular there was a kind of
Disney stork, an animal of grotesque
benevolence which opened and shut
its bill and flapped its eyelids in
time to the music. Everything that
was essentially stork-like had been
captured in this caricature.
On
the other hand, human puppets,
when the intention was not comic,
were manipulated with such fidelity
to observed human postures
and
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movements that spectators far
back in the audience could easily
have had the illusion that they were
watching flesh-and-blood players.
After
these animal interludes the main
performance began, a traditional
'royal play' with the king himself,
princes and princesses. the
ministers and, of course, clowns. It
is interesting that the semi-divine
kings did not object to
these representations of
themselves, insisting only that the
court dress, manners and customs
shown should be correct in every
detail. A quite different
show is going on
at many occasions when ethnic minorities
celebrate their entertainment or
festivals like in this case the Naga.
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