Myanamr Calendar has 12 months in a year and each month has its own seasonal festivals, which the Myanamrs celebrate tumultuously accordingly to traditional culture. In every seasonal festival traditional cultural dance, still favourite to the present day, are entertained to the public. One of such dances is U Shwe Yoe and Daw Moe dance, which we are presenting now. Our viewers can study musical instruments of Ohzi (long drum) Doebat (short drum), flute, cymbals and bamboo clappers. These musical instruments are jointly played as the dancers perform the dance, which greatly attracts the public, as it is different from other Myanmar cultural dances. In the performance there are two dance troupes, one led by U Shwe Yoe and another by Daw Moe.

Now let’s study the differences of the dance troupes.

You can see the first dance troupe of men wearing headdresses, Gaungbaung, decorated with pink and blue flowers. Members of the dance troupe, with spread out moustaches are wearing Myanmar jackets white and brownish mottled Paso, nether garment of Myanmar males, and their reads covered by umbrellas manufactured in Pathein. They are none other than a group of bachelors led by U Shwe Yoe who is dancing with the accompaniment of music played by his colleagues.

The bachelors’ troupe while dancing is teasing, making gestures by eyes and eyebrows and fiddle the damsels troupe led by Daw Moe.

Now you can see the maidens’ dance troupe led by Daw Moe comes in refuting bachelors’ dance troupe of U Shwe Yoe. Daw Moe is wearing traditional garments of ancient Myanmar women and white flowers on her hair-knot with trees of loose hair hanging. She is also wearing a pearl necklace.

You can see the style of dance of Daw Moe’s group refuting U Shwe Yoe’s dance style.

The dance of young men led by their leader and the dance troupe of maidens led by their chaperon compete dancing in the seasonal festivals. These dances will always be taken interest by the public.
We will continue to present the Myanmar traditional dances in the future.