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Entertainment in
Burma and Rangoon
There are all kinds of entertainment
in Rangoon, from cultural shows to
marionette performance, theatre,
cinemas and plenty of Karaoke
entertainment.
Real relative good fashion shows
entertainment (the fashion show is
the local substitution of a modern
show elsewhere, since there are
strict limits set by the
government), with high professional
exotic designs, mainly as a add on
in various discos offer a
interesting entertainment.
Discos
for Burma entertainment are plenty and full of nice
and very cooperative girls, "sing a
song" restaurant entertainment many.
A interesting nightlife
entertainment is going on
near and opposite the Shanghai Shopping Center
complex after 8 pm. This is in China
town and the spoken name of the road
is is -- ten ge say -- and in the basement of the
Asia Plaza Hotel.
At both places fashion shows
are the entertainment where pretty models show
" homemade " fashion with hot background music. The best
are in the Asia Plaza Disco from 10 pm to 1 am and the
show in the Zero Zone Rock Restaurant (rooftop) from
8.30 pm to 10 pm at ten gi ze road in Chinatown.
Take the taxi and ask there. " ten gi ze" is the
main nightlife spot in Burma, in most of the discos you can
for sure find a lot of very pretty girls who are
quite cooperative to make you
happy.
A interesting nightlife
entertainment is going on
near and
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opposite the
Shanghai Shopping
Center complex after 8 pm. This is in China town and
the spoken name of the road is is -- ten ge say -- and
in the basement of the Asia Plaza Hotel.
At both places fashion shows
are the entertainment where pretty models show
" homemade " fashion with hot background music. The best
are in the Asia Plaza Disco from 10 pm to 1 am and the
show in the Zero Zone Rock Restaurant (rooftop) from
8.30 pm to 10 pm at ten gi ze road in Chinatown.
Take the taxi and ask there. " ten gi ze" is the
main nightlife spot in Burma, in most of the discos you can
for sure find a lot of very pretty girls who are
quite cooperative to make you happy.
Burma Entertainment
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A pleasant place to
start the Burma - Rangoon entertainment is the
Zero Zone "Rock Restaurant" with entertainment dancing shows and
almost 2 hours of continuous entertainment
showing about 10 fashion show groups with plenty
of very pretty girls.
Have a look it's worth it
and try their barbecue buffet, real good stuff, some of
the food is Indian style, very tasty. It's natural, they do the
barbecue more or less in front of you. They also have a tandoori oven, you can enjoy
Burma -
Rangoon
entertainment there.
Most upmarket Hotels in
Rangoon and elsewhere offer some kind of
nightlife entertainment. Some offer native shows
with Burma dancing and a Burma orchestra as
background music
and maybe some artistic
show like the Kandawgyi Palace Hotel every evening
in context of a dinner show.
Pubs and bars are also in the big
hotels e.g. a Irish Pub in the Sedona hotel and a
hot disco in the Kandawgyi Palace hotel both with
plenty of very pretty girls where you can find
easily a companion for doing something more later
the evening., its just more or less the same as elsewhere
in Asia.
A other Burma
nightlife variant are plenty of disco, karaoke
and pub - restaurants in certain places like China
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Burma Entertainment
fashion show girls in red |
All Burma entertainment
spots are -as it is practically in all Burma- very save,
no problem with drunken
and / or violent guys,
they take out troublemaker immediately, one wishes something
like this everywhere not only in Burma. All the discos
don't allow making photos, don't try it it will end in
embarrassment, since the security guys are never further
away that about 3 meters.
The nightspots are very
cautious on this subject since if there is any
bigger trouble they have to shut down for at least 1 month, I
think the Burma's have a couple of very good
regulations.
A Burma Pwe,
entertainment for everyone.
Burma Entertainment Nat
Pwe |
Burma Entertainment Nat
Pwe 1 |
Traditional Burma pwês are the
dramatic entertainments inseparable
from the many Burma festivals,
which to the Burma are very
important. 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.
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 an
entertainment dancer camein 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 poise and fire of
a Spanish flamenco dancer, plus the snake-like head
and eye movements of an Indian.
To this she added
the Burma specialty of thrusting out her arms in
such extraordinary positions that they appeared 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 suddenl relapse into a
set pose, turn her back on the public, make up her
face or drink tea.
This Burma entertainment performance would go on until
late in the morning, when straight theatrical
shows, lasting until dawn, would begin in other
parts of the pwe-ground. For over four hours these
clowns would pour outa stream of extempore wit
and topical allusion.
The Burma's 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.
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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
Burma entertainment
orchestra had set to work to
attract an audience. The
instruments for the music
entertainment 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 Burma flute
terminating in a horn, which
produces notes of a
singularly penetrative
quality.Through the wide cracks in
the makeshift
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 the ancient Burma, to
whom they also make
offerings of food.
When the
curtain rose the senior
puppet entertainment master leaned over
the low backdrop and sang to
the audience a
lengthy |
Burma Entertainment
Marionettes Show |
Burma Entertainment Puppet
Show |
description of the
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 Burma St.
George mounted the dragon's back and
rode away.
Burma Entertainment Folklore
Dancing
This
curtain raiser was followed by a
dance by two genial-looking 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 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.
Burma Entertainment Folklore
Dancing Show
On
the other hand, human puppets,
when the intention was not comic,
were manipulated with such fidelity
to observed human postures and
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
Burma kings did not object to
these ff6600representations of
themselves, insisting only that the
court dress, manners and customs
shown should be correct in every
detail.
A quite different Burma
Entertainment Show is going on
at many occasions when the
plenty of Burma ethnic minorities
celebrate their entertainment or
festivals like in this case the Naga.
Burma Entertainment Naga
New Year Show |
Burma Entertainment Naga
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