Dance & Culture
DRAFT — Shan dance, kept up away from home. She performs at Burmese community festivals around Washington DC, and is starting to teach.
DRAFT — she is Shan, or Tai Yai, from Shan State in eastern Myanmar. Shan dance is danced to drums, gongs and small hand cymbals, and it belongs to occasions rather than to stages — a new year, an ordination, a wedding.
DRAFT — she dances at Burmese community events in and around Washington DC, including Tai New Year. It is the part of home that travels most easily: the costume folds flat, and the music is in everyone's phone.
DRAFT — she is taking on students who want to learn Burmese traditional dance. Confirm with her how she wants this framed — whether it is group classes or one to one, whether it is for children or adults, and whether she teaches Shan dance specifically or a broader Burmese repertoire. Get in touch on the contact page.
PLACEHOLDER — a paragraph from her on what she dances, who she learned from, and where she performs now. Names and spellings below should be hers, not a stranger's guess.
On video
- PLACEHOLDER — the kinnari, or bird, dance — DRAFT — check the name and spelling she uses. Danced in the costume of a kinnari, the half-bird figure, with the wings worked by hand.
- PLACEHOLDER — a drum and gong piece — DRAFT — the long drum, gongs and cymbals that Shan processions move to. Confirm what she actually performs to.
- Shan New Year — PLACEHOLDER — where she dances it, who with, and what it means to her.