Video: Burmese Dance History

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Burmese dance combines folk and classic steps to tell a story. Learn more about the history of Burmese dance in the free video from a professional Burmese dancer.

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Today I'm going to talk about the Burmese dance, and the history of a Burmese. You can see that like beginning of the Burmese dance we don't, the human especially don't dance, only the puppet and puppeteer. They have the story and dancers. And what I can say is like the human dance is really happen in a classical style. Classical style in the palace, so after that like around about like 1886, when British took over the Burma, that when we don't have no more kingdom, the inside, the palace dancers, become into regular people to the outside. So people start seeing their dance and they copy and now what we can see is like traditional Burmese dance are always combined with the folk styles and the traditional classic styles. So, to learn the Burmese dance is basically that we have to have the proper form. It's required a lot, you have to bend the knee, there's the first thing that you have to learn first.

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Burmese Dance History

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