Myanmar Week Music Selection

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Myanmar week, dancing

by Ayaka Okamoto(The Fountain staff)
Zaw Myo Win, 2nd year APS student 
chose music for the dance of APU 
Myanmar Week Grand Show. The show 
was held on Dec.22 at the millennium hall.

 In the show, there were four dances (Kayin 
dance, Bagan dance, Thanakha dance and 
Rakhine Candle dance) with traditional music 
Win chose.

 The song with Kayin dance and Thanakha 
dance are the cheerful song and the song 
made the scene peaceful and the dance is 
for citizen so the song is good to show how 
their life is. The song with Bagan dance is 
slowly ending elegant so it goes with the 
gorgeous costumes. The song win chose 
for the last dance (Candle dance) was sung 
by two students. The students usually use 
music player in the week they don’t usually 
sing a song with dance so this is the most 
interesting part of music. 

The director of the grand show drama, 
Win chose songs it took two weeks. Win 
said, “It was rather easier than we thought”. 
He chose them depending on the liveliness 
of the song and how it would fit into the play 
and also he chose them before he started 
writing drama script so he could adjust the 
scenes. Win said, “ It was a bit difficult trying 
to find authentic Myanmar traditional songs 
that are also lively and fun to listen”.

 He did not choose songs by himself he 
worked with other members.  When he chose 
them he consulted with other students from 
Myanmar about songs. Win said, “ In this 
week, cooperation is very important for us 
because our group is not big”.
If you want to listen to the music they 
used you can go to YouTube from this 
URL below.

 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx
_gMxeIUWw) with Kayin dance, 

 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00
Ofa_-yK8k) with Bagan dance,

 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2
vtcGhZjtg) with Thanakha dance and

 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W
W23QnoWSs&list=RD1WW23QnoWSs) 
with Rakhine Candle Dance.

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