Win Tha Pyay Tun (Burmese: ဝင်းသပြေထွန်း; born May Ki Ki Tun on 30 June 1985) is a prominent Burmese traditional anyeint dancer[1] and actress. She has performed over 300 dance concerts in Myanmar and 17 overseas countries. In 2015, she received a gold medal from Bauman University from Russia and was presented an honorary cultural award from the Russia Federation.[2][3]
Win Tha Pyay Tun | |
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ဝင်းသပြေထွန်း | |
 Win Tha Pyay Tun performs traditional Burmese dance | |
| Born | May Ki Ki Tun 30 June 1985 |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Other names | Ki Ki |
| Alma mater | State School of Fine Arts, Mandalay |
| Occupation(s) | Traditional dancer, actress |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Height | 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) |
| Parent(s) | Khayan Win Tun Myanmar Malay Thapyay |
| Relatives | R Yone Oo (brother) |
Early life and family edit
Win Tha Pyay Tun was born on 30 June 1985 in Mandalay, Myanmar. She comes from the traditional thabin family, all of her family member are traditional anyeint dancers and actors. Her grandparents are also anyeint dancers. Her father Khayan Win Tun, a retired anyeint dancer and her mother Myanmar Malay Thapyay, a retired anyeint dancer and vocal coach at the State School of Fine Arts, Mandalay.[4] Her younger brother R Yone Oo, is also an anyeint dancer. She graduated from the State School of Fine Arts, Mandalay.[5]
Career edit
After graduated, she worked as an officer at the Department of Culture, Mandalay for four years. Afterwards, she debuted as an anyeint dancer in her mother's anyeint concerts. She performed as a lead dancer in the Shumawa anyeint for two years. And then, she founded the anyeint troupe Shwe Maung Nama (The Golden Siblings) together with her younger brother.[6] She has flourished as an anyeint dancer since 2005. Her first international concert was in Mexico.[7] Throughout her career, she has performed over 300 dance concerts in the local and 17 countries.[8][9]
Win Tha Pyay Tun made guest appearances in film Koe Se Sa Thar Laint Me in 2007. She then starred in television series Ywar Ma Gyi, aird on Myawaddy TV in 2009. Her hard work as a dancer and supporting roles in films was noticed by the film industry and soon, film casting offers came rolling in. In 2010, She made her leading role debut in the film Ta Bawa San, alongside June Ko. She has since starred in big-screen films Naung Twin Au Htan Twin Say Ta Dee, screened in 2018 and Thaung Tike Ka Kyar Say Thar, screened on 30 January 2020.[10][11]
In 2019, she starred in thriller film Mya Mya, playing a girl whose body entered by Mya Mya's spirit.[12][13] The film was premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 6 February 2020 and became one of highest-grossing films in Myanmar.[14]
Filmography edit
Film (Cinema) edit
- Koe Se Sa Thar Laint Me (ကိုးဆယ်ဆသာလိမ့်မယ်) (2007)
- Naung Twin Au Htan Twin Say Ta Dee (နောင်တွင် ဥဒါန်းတွင်စေသတည်း) (2018)
- Thaung Tike Ka Kyar Say Thar (သောင်းတိုက်ကကြားစေသား) (2020)
- Mya Mya (မြမြ) (2020)
Film edit
Over 10 films, including[15]
- Ta Bawa San (တစ်ဘဝစံ) (2010)
- Tu Thaw Akyoe (တူသောအကျိုး) (2012)
- Atwin Sate (အတွင်းစိတ်) (2012)
- Latt Ma Yount (လက်မရွံ့) (2015)
- Yarzawin Aoe (ရာဇဝင်အိုး) (2016)
- BSA Moe Kaung and Bicycle Thar Gi (ဘီအက်စ်အေမိုးကောင်းနှင့် ဘိုင်စကယ်သာဂိ) (2017)
Television series edit
| Year | English title | Myanmar title | Role | Network | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Ywar Ma Gyi | ရွာမကြီး | Main role | Myawaddy TV |
References edit
- ^ "Myanmar traditional dancer Win Tha Pyay Tun performs a peacock dance". The Daily Telegraph. 13 April 2016 – via Scoopnest.
- ^ "Parasol presents traditional Burmese dancing". The Myanmar Times. 7 August 2019.
- ^ "မြန်မာ့ရှေးမူစစ်အငြိမ့်သဘင်အနုပညာကို ပြန်လည်ဖော်ထုတ်မည့် "ငွေလကြယ်စင် အငြိမ့်ဂန္တဝင်" ပွဲတော် ကျင်းပမည်". Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). 9 January 2019.
- ^ Fame, Asian (11 December 2018). "ဧယဉ်ကျုးဖို့အတွက် စာတွေကျက်နေတဲ့ ဝင်းသပြေထွန်း". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ Fame, Asian (31 October 2017). "ဝင်းသပြေထွန်း ရဲ့ ငယ်ဘဝ ကထိန်ခံစားမှု". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ Kalay, Moe (8 July 2018). "လူမှုကွန်ယက်မှာ နာမည်ကြီးနေတဲ့ ကတုံးဒီဇိုင်းနဲ့ အရမ်းမိုက်နေတဲ့ သဘင်မင်းသမီးလေး ဝင်းသပြေထွန်း". Momolay.
- ^ Fame, Asian (29 November 2017). "ကိုယ်ပိုင်အငြိမ့် ထောင်ဖြစ်မလား ဝင်းသပြေထွန်း". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ Fame, Asian (26 February 2019). "မြန်မာအကနဲ့ ပတ်သက်လို့ လူငယ်တွေကို ပြန်လည်သင်ကြား ပေးနေပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ ဝင်းသပြေထွန်း". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ Fame, Asian (25 April 2017). "ဝင်းသပြေထွန်း ရဲ့ မေ့မရတဲ့ အမေရိက ခရီးစဉ်အကြောင်း". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ "သောင်းတိုက်က ကြားစေသား´´ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကား ဇန်နဝါရီ ၃၀ ရက်မှ စတင်ကာ တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးရှိ အဆင့်မြင့်ရုပ်ရှင်ရုံကြီးများတွင် ပြသသွားမည်". Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). 27 January 2020.
- ^ "၁၉၉၀ ဝန်းကျင်က ဆရာဝန်လေးရဲ့အကြောင်းကို ရုပ်ရှင်အဖြစ်ပုံဖော်ထားတဲ့ "သောင်းတိုက်က ကြားစေသား" ရုပ်ရှင်". Duwun (in Burmese). 27 January 2020.
- ^ Poe, Chit (26 September 2019). "ညိုမင်းလွင်ကို ယုံကြည်လို့ "မြမြ" ဝင်ပူးတဲ့ မိန်းကလေးနေရာက သရုပ်ဆောင်မယ့် ဝင်းသပြေထွန်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
- ^ "ဝင်ပူးခံရတဲ့မိန်းကလေးနေရာကသရုပ်ဆောင်ရမယ်ဆိုတော့ နည်းနည်းရှော့ခ်ဖြစ်သွားခဲ့ တယ်ဆိုတဲ့ ဝင်းသပြေထွန်း". Sunday Journal (in Burmese). 31 December 2019.
- ^ "မြှုပ်ကွက်တွေနဲ့"မြမြ"". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 12 February 2020.
- ^ "Movies starred by Win Tha Pyay Tun". Burmese Video Directory.