Myanmar Dance
Myanmar dancing is essentially postures in movement of the feet, hip, head and hands. It is said that there are about 2,000 facets of dancing in the Myanmar dance repertory. Some of the Myanmar dances are:

Drama
Drama, the key to modern Myanmar culture, is accessible and enjoyable for visitors. The pwe is the everyday Myanmar theatre; a religious festival, wedding, funeral, celebration, monastic ordination, fair, sporting event almost anything can be a good reason for a pwe. There are various forms of pwe. In anyein pwe the emphasis is on comedy, slapstick and dancing but the borderline to the more serious theatre is often crossed, and indeed in all night performance there is plenty of time for both.

Water Festival Dance
Water Festival song and Dance is for the best wishes, good luck, good health and success for the coming year and through your Water Festival is a celebration of the New Year in Myanmar.

Dance of the Nat
The dance can be performed once a year. By one or many Nat Votaresses who appeal to the spiritual beings for the success of the performance. Dance of the Princely Archers

The dance of the Princely Archers in traditional costumes and makutas. Now arranged in ensemble it used to be danced solo by the virtuoso of the dramatic company.

Candle Dance
Almost every nation in the east has its own dance either with lamps or with candles. It calls for skill as well as artistry in balancing the lighted lamps or candles on the palm whilst moving the hands gracefully in time to the intricate dance steps.

Myanmar Folk Dances
Myanmar folk dances developed together with folk music and songs. So they are inseparably linked with folk music and songs. These three performing arts are complementary and agro-based. As Myanmar is an agricultural country the majority of its people are peasants and their cultural performance reflect their occupation and daily life style. Just as their folk music and songs present and describe their daily chores, so also their folk dances mimic their production activities. Most or possibly all Myanmar folk dances are group dances performed on communal occasions. The following are some samplings of most pervasive and popular dances.

The Kainari and Kainara Dance (Shan State Presentation)
The Kainari and Kainara duet dance is performed on auspicious occasions and charities, Kahtain ceremonies, eating-the-new-crop-festivals and festivals which mark the beginning and end of Buddhist lent and others, to the accompaniment of music made by drums, gongs etc.

The Shan people never get mononotous from watching the Kainari and Kainara bird dance which never fails to delight the audience. The duet dance of the couple amidst woods and forests attempts to imitate the movements of birds. The movements of a bird's body, its wings, its legs, etc. form the basic dance movements.

Marionette Treatre( yok-thei pwe)
Yok-thei or marionette theatre is one of Myanmar’s best loved entertainments. It reached its popularity peak between the 18th and 19th centuries, before disappearing into relative obscurity with the advent of the British and the decline of royal sponsorship.

Myanmar Music
Myanmar musical scale has seven tones, representing the voices or tones of seven auspicious animals which are traditionally mentioned as producers of seven tones. They are (1). Bull which produces the Usabha tone (2). Horse which produces the Dhevata tone (3). Peacock which produces the Chajja tone (4). Goat which produces the Gandhara tone (5). Crane which produces the Majjhima tone (6). Cuckoo which produces the Panzama tone and (7). Elephant which produces the Nisada tone.

These seven tones are given Myanmar musical terms as (1). Pyi daw pyan (2). Chauk Thwe Nyunt (3). Duraka (4). Myin Saing(5). Pulei (6). Auk Pyan and (7). Hnyin Lone respectively.

But in wind instruments such as flute, trumpet, horn, conch, oboe, etc where there are key holes, seven tones are called by their number as ta-pauk(No. 1 hole), hnit pauk(No. 2 hole), thone pauk ( No.3 hole), Ley pauk( No.4 hole), Nga pauk ( No.5 hole), Chauk pauk (No.6 hole), and instead of calling Khun hnit pauk for (No.7 hole), it is commonly call Khun hnit than.