![]() ![]() Less than a decade later, another observer defined it differently: an all-night Burmese variety show or vaudeville performance consisting of a potpourri of traditional songs, modern Burmese popular music, classical dance, comedy sketches, plays in traditional verse, modern melodramas (Diamond 2009, 105) and dance drama based on Burmese legends and Jatakas. Osnes and Gill (2001, 376) described zat pwe as a mixture of classical Thai and Burmese dance and Western ballet. ![]() The drums pound out pulsating traditional music for a few hours before the zat pwe begins. Tourists are rarely present at these performances. ![]() ![]() For a few nights a year, powerful rhythmic beats of the Burmese saing waing (drum circle orchestra) draw crowds from a temporary marketplace in the forecourt of the Alopyi temple. The darkness of the nights is partially relieved by scattered temple lamps sponsored by Buddhist devotees. Today it is a dusty conglomeration of hundreds of brick temples among which wander a few tourists, horse cart drivers and local farmers who have been forced by the government to move to the fringes of the site, 5km away, in the towns of New Bagan and Nyaung-U. Introduction: Bagan was the capital of a vast kingdom between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. ![]()
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