Shwe Man Tin Maung
Alinkar Kyawswa Shwe Man Tin Maung | |
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| Born | Tin Maung 21 December 1918 |
| Died | 29 November 1969 (aged 50) |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Organization | Shwe Man Thabin (ရွှေမန်းသဘင်) |
| Known for | Burmese dance |
| Spouse | Daw Thein Nyunt |
| Children | Nyunt Win Win Bo San Win Khin Chit Win Khin Win Kyi Win Maung Chan Thar |
| Parent(s) | U Pya (father) Daw May (mother) |
| Awards | Alinkar Kyawswa (1953) |
Shwe Man Tin Maung (Burmese: ရွှေမန်းတင်မောင်, 21 December 1918 – 29 November 1969) was an influential Burmese dancer and founder of the Shwe Man Thabin family dance troupe, the last of its kind in Burma.[1][2] He was considered one of the three most skilled zat pwe performers of his day, along with Kenneth Sein and Sein Aung Min,[3] and led the Burmese Zat Thabin industry, following the example of Po Sein.[4]
A bronze statue of Tin Maung stands before the National Theatre of Mandalay.[5] His oratorical skills gave rise to the Burmese saying "Talking like Shwe Man."[6]
Early life[edit]
Tin Maung, the youngest of nine siblings, was born in Mandalay in 1918 to U Pya and Daw May. His father died when he was eight years old. He became interested in singing and dancing and started performing as a Zeetheekauk Minthale at his uncle's marionette show.
Career[edit]
After studying traditional drama under Mya Chay Gyin Ma Ngwe Myaing for three years, he founded the Shwe Man Thabin dance troupe in 1933.[7] Four generations of his family would eventually become members.[8][9]
He was the first to use a searchlight on stage, breaking away from older lighting traditions, and introduced half-night dances, which included a dance duet and an opera, instead of the usual all-night performances. He was awarded the title of Alinkar Kyawswa by the Burmese government in 1953.[10] In 1959, he was invited to the United States as a representative of the Myanmar dance troupe tradition.[10]
He performed well-known songs, such as "Aungbaze" and "Shwekyayzi", and in operas, including Ywekonthe, Htwatyatlan, Maung Mhue and Gitayoo.[11] The Buddhist Jataka operas he performed are still remembered in rural traditional festival circles.[12]
Death[edit]
On the night of 29 November 1969, Tin Maung died of hypertension while dancing on stage during the Mahapeinne pagoda festival near Minhla, Magway.[6][10]
Family[edit]
He and his wife Daw Thein Nyunt had seven children: Nyunt Win, Win Bo, San Win, Khin Chit Win, Khin Win Kyi, Win Maung and Chan Thar.[13] Nyunt Win became a performer and earned seven Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards. His other four sons are dancers,[14] and his grandchildren Tin Maung San Min Win and Kyaw Kyaw Bo are also artists.[11][15]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Myay, Chan (13 August 2013). "Traditional Burmese Dance Troupe Returns to National Stage". The Irrawaddy.
- ^ "Myanmar's Shwe Man Thabin". Asia Society.
- ^ ""မာလာမြိုင် ဟေမာန်ရာသီ သဘင်ပွဲ တော်" တွင် သရုပ်ဆောင် ဦးဝင်းဦး ကွယ်လွန်ခြင်း ၃၂နှစ်ပြည့် အစီအစဉ် ပါဝင်မည်". lotaya.mpt.com.mm.
- ^ "သဘင့်ဥသျှောင် အလင်္ကာ့ဂုဏ်ဆောင် ရွှေမန်းတင်မောင်". Myanma Radio and Television.
- ^ "အလင်္ကာကျော်စွာ ရွှေမန်း တင်မောင်ရုပ်တု အမျိုးသား ကဇာတ်ရုံတွင် စိုက်ထူမည်". The Myanmar Times. 5 June 2014.
- ^ a b "အတိတ်နှင့်ပစ္စုပ္ပန်ကို ချိန်ထိုးကြည့်ခြင်း". Real Power Online Media (Myanmar). 2 July 2020.
- ^ "Family talents on stage commemorate 80 years of Shwe Man Tha Bin". The Myanmar Times. 17 June 2013.
- ^ Kourlas, Gia (12 April 2015). "Review: Shwe Man Thabin at Asia Society (Published 2015)". The New York Times.
- ^ "သဘင်ပညာတွင် ဘဝမြှုပ်နှံထားသူ". 7Day Daily - ၇ ရက် နေ့စဉ် သတင်းစာ. 20 September 2017.
- ^ a b c "Alinga Kyaw Swa Shwe Man Tin Maung". mdep.moe.edu.mm.
- ^ a b "ရွှေမန်းတင်မောင်ရဲ့ ဇာတ်ထုပ်တွေကို အော်ပရာအဖြစ် ပြန်ဖော်ထုတ်မယ့် တင်မောင်ဆန်းမင်းဝင်း". ဧရာဝတီ. 17 July 2019.
- ^ MediaGroup, AsianFame (10 January 2018). "ရွှေမန်းတင်မောင်ရဲ့ လေးတော်တင်ခန်းဇာတ်တော်ကြီးကို ပြန်လည်ကပြဖို့ စီစဥ်နေတဲ့ တင်မောင်ဆန်းမင်းဝင်း". Popular.
- ^ "အလင်္ကာ အလွမ်းမှတ်တမ်းနှင့် ရွှေမန်း မျိုးဆက်များ၏ ရင်တွင်း စကားသံများ". ဧရာဝတီ. 14 June 2013.
- ^ Fame, Asian (8 January 2018). "ရန်ကုန်မှာလုပ်မယ့် အလင်္ကာကျော်စွာ ရွှေမန်းတင်မောင်ရဲ့ နှစ် ၁ဝဝ ပြည့် သဘင်ဖျော်ဖြေပွဲ". Popular.
- ^ "အလင်္ကာကျော်စွာ ရွှေမန်းတင်မောင်ရဲ့မြေးဖြစ်ရတာ ဂုဏ်ယူတဲ့ ကျော်ကျော်ဗို". 7Day News - ၇ ရက်နေ့စဉ် သတင်း.