Dance (Odissi) Part-Time Courses Indian Dance Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the syllabus the University of Mumbai brought into force for these courses with effect from the academic year 2017-18, by Circular No. UG/151 of 2018-19 (Ad-hoc Board of Studies in Dance, 15 February 2017; Academic Council, 30 July 2017, item No. 4.34; Management Council, 28 November 2017, item No. 03). The University has published no revision of it since.
The University has not published an examination timetable or result register for these courses in the four examination seasons to Summer 2026, and the college that teaches them sets no examination for them in its own 2026-27 academic calendar. Confirm with your college that the course is running before you rely on this page for an examination.
These are three separate one-year part-time courses, not three years of one course, and the University examines each of them once at the end of its year. There is no semester level here because her syllabus sets none.
Advance Diploma Course in Dance (Odissi) is a one-year part-time, self-financing course, set under Ordinances 6442 and 6443, Regulations 9169 and 9170. A Candidate for being eligible for admission must have passed Diploma Course in Dance (Odissi) of University of Mumbai. This course can be done simultaneously while pursuing a degree of the University in any discipline.
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Syllabus for Indian Dance
- a) Study in general of the following classical dance styles of India :-
- 1) Bharata Natyam
- 2) Kathakali
- 3) Mohini Attam
- 4) Kuchipudi
- 5) Manipuri
- 6) Odissi
- b) Oriya Folk and Tribal Traditions in Dance.
Select Bibliography for Theory Paper
- 1. Understanding Bharata- — Mrinalini Sarabhai, M.S. University of Baroda
- 2. Kathakali Sacred Dance Drama of Maidbar. — K. Bharatha Iyer, London, 1955
- 3. Manipuri (Old & New) — Marg Magazine, 1961, 1990.
- 4. Odissi Dance — D.N. Patnaik, Orissa Sangita Natak Akademi, 1971.
- 5. Understanding Kuchipudi — Guru. C.R. Acharya Mallika Sarabhi., IGNCA, 1992.
- 6. Mohini Attam, The Lyrical Dance. — Dr. Kanak Rele, Nalanda Dance Research Centre, 1991.
- 7. Hand Book of Indian Classical Dance Terminology. — Dr. Veena Londhe &. Dr. Malati Agneswaran, Nalanda Dance Research Centre, 1991.
- 8. History of Indian Theatre — M.L. Varadpande, Abhinav Publications, 1992.
- 9. The Odissi Dance Path Finder — K.K. Mohanty, Odissi Research Centre, Bhubaneshwar, 1988
- 10. Tradition of Indian Classical Dance. — Mohan Khokar, Clarion Books, New Delhi, 1979.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for the Advance Diploma Course in Dance (Odissi), Circular No. UG/151 of 2018-19 (Academic Council, 30 July 2017, item No. 4.34), in force from the academic year 2017-18. Wording, numbering and the marks allotted are as printed there.
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