Yindaw Ma Lay

Yindaw Ma Lay (Burmese: ယင်းတော်မလေး; pronounced [jíɴ dɔʼ mɑ lé]; 1846 – c. 1916) was a Burmese royal court dancer, best known during the late Konbaung era. Yindaw Ma Lay is said to be one of the two mothers of the Mandalay's first dramatic arts era along with Sin Kho Ma Lay, her only contemporary court dancer.[1]

Yindaw Ma Lay
Yindaw Ma Lay
Born1846
Yindaw, Burma
Died1916 (1917) (aged 70)
NationalityBurmese
OccupationRoyal court dancer

Early life

Yindaw Ma Lay was born in 1846 at Yindaw.[note 1][2] In 1862, she was sent to Mandalay, by the mayor of Yindaw, to serve as a royal anyeint preliminary dancer.[3]

Career as a royal dancer
Yindaw Ma Lay as a Putzabar princess

She became a leading court dancer a year later, playing the role of Putzabar princess in Indrāvudha court drama together with Eenaung Mg San Toke.[4] She soon became popular in the royal society.[5][6][7] She received the appanage of Yindaw and was hence known as Yindaw Ma Lay (or Duchess of Yindaw).[8]

In 1868, the Indrāvudha court drama team led by Yindaw Ma Lay was sent on a mission to perform the royal court drama for the governor-general Lord Mayo's Yangon tour for the request of Pegu commissioner.

Later life

After the abdication of King Thibaw in 1885, since there were no major contributors, the Indrāvudha court drama troupe was almost disbanded. However, because the wife of Taunggwin mayor supported them, it could perform at the ceremonies held in Mandalay.

Eight years after the abdication of King Thibaw, Yindaw Ma Lay went blind one eye. She remained poorly at her sixties. Although getting her age, she had participated in some local dance troupes.[9]Whenever she sung about the fall of her time of glory to becoming lower status, all the audience felt sad for her.[10]

No one in her generation inherited Yindaw Ma Lay's knowledge of Burmese royal dance, except Ma Htwe Lay, her pupil, who later became a popular dancer. [11]

Notes
  1. A town between Meiktila and Pyawbwe.

See also

References
  1. "ပဒေသရာဇ်ခြေတော်တင် ပါရမီရှင်အမျိုးသမီးတဦး". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese).
  2. ညင်း, စောမုံ (1976). ဗမာအမျိုးသမီး (in Burmese). ပိတောက်လှိုင်းစာပေ.
  3. "မန္တလေး အမွေအနှစ်". www.moi.gov.mm. News and Periodical Enterprise.
  4. မြန်မာ့စွယ်စုံကျမ်း (in Burmese). မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဘာသာပြန်စာပေအသင်း. 1954.
  5. သား, ရွှေကိုင်း (1959). အနှစ်၁၀၀ပြည့် မန္တလေး (in Burmese). ကြီးပွားရေးပုံနှိပ်တိုက်.
  6. ရာ.), တင် (ဗေလုဝ ဆ (1976). မြန်မာ့ဆိုင်းပါရဂူ (in Burmese). အင်းဝသွန်းစာပေတိုက်.
  7. ဒေါ်.), အမာ (လူထု (1989). မြန်မာ့မဟာဂီတ (in Burmese). ကြီးပွားရေးစာပေတိုက်.
  8. "သတင်းကြီးသည့်မင်းသမီးမထွေးလေး" (PDF). mdep.moe.edu.mm. MDEP.
  9. မြန်မာ့စွယ်စုံကျမ်း (in Burmese). မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဘာသာပြန်စာပေအသင်း. 1954.
  10. မြန်မာ့ဇာတ်သဘင်တခေတ် ပြောင်းလဲရေး (in Burmese). မြန်မာ့ဆိုရှယ်လစ်လမ်းစဉ်ပါတီ ဗဟိုကော်မတီ ဌာနချုပ်. 1983.
  11. "မန္တလေးသဘင်ရဲ့ အကမိခင် မင်းသမီး မထွေးလေး". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese).
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