DANCE DEPARTMENT

Department of Music & Dance

Department at A Glance

• Year establishment – Music (Vocal) – 1950
• Year establishment – Dance (Kathak) - 2011

TEACHING FACULTY

NAME OF THEPOST	SANCTIONED	FILLED	VACANT
Professor Music Vocal	01	----------	01
Assistant Professor (Kathak Dance)	01	01	00

NON TEACHING FACULTY

NAME OF THE POST	SANCTIONED	FILLED	VACANT
Accompanist – Tabla Music	01	----------	01
Accompanist – Tabla Dance	01	----------	01
Accompanist – Harmonium Dance	01	----------	01

No of student enrolled 2020-21

Music	BA I	10	40
	BA II	19
	BA III	11
Dance	BA I	27	81
	BA II	29
	BA III	25

Our Alumni

Music

• KavitaTaunk – Performing Artist in Classical Music (Vocal)
• SwapnilKarmahe – Assistant Professor in Dance,Empanelled Artist in ICCR,New Delhi
• SajalChawda– Performing Artist in Classical Music (Vocal)
• Sushma Mishra – Announcer in AIR & Graded Artist in AIR in Music (Vocal)
• PoojaJha– Performing Artist in Music (Vocal)

Dance

• Vinita Napit – Performing Artist in Classical Dance (Kathak),Recipient of National Scholarship by HRD,New Delhi
• HimaniKhonde – Performing Artist in Classical Dance (Kathak)
• ChameliJaltare– Performing Artist in Classical Dance (Kathak)
• BhaviniSonkar– Performing Artist in Classical Dance (Kathak)

Courses

Programme offered and available seats

Music	BA I	20	60
	BA II	20
	BA III	20
Dance	BA I	20	60
	BA II	20
	BA III	20

Faculty Profile

S. N.	NAME	QUALIFICATION	EXPERIENCE	No. Of Performances as Classical Solo Artist
1.	Dr.V.V. Joshi (Retired on 31/12/2020)	M.A (Music – Vocal), Ph.D	YEARS
2.	Dr. Swapnil Karmahe Assistant Professor	MA,UGC –NET,PHD,KOVID (SENIOR DIPLOMA IN KATHAK)/CLASSICAL DANCE – KATHAK	15 YEARS	Approx 80
3.	Ms. Pooja Jha Guest Lecturer	MA MUSIC,VID-SENIOR DIPLOMA IN CLASSICAL MUSIC  (VOCAL )& LIGHT MUSIC	Approx 30

Student Achievements

Youth Festival 2015-16

• Solo Classical Dance – HimaniKhonde – 1^st prize
• Literally (debate/speech) – Nidhi Agrawal -1^st prize
• Music (solo classical) - RohiniSahu -1^st prize

In the University level and got selected for the zonal Youth festival at Jhansi

(BundelKhand University) hold from 19^th November to 23^rd November 2015.

• Nidhi Agrawal Selected in Jhansi for the National level in Youth Festival held at Mysore.

Youth Festival 2016-17

• RohiniSahu participate in the Open Youth Festival organized by KhelEvamYuvaKalyanVibhag Raipur (District Level) on 17/12/2016 in solo music (Vocal) and got 1^st prize and participated in the state level competition, and attained 1^st prize in the state level at Jagdalpur and selected for the National level.
• Our participated and got prizes in the Youth Festival Competition 2016 at Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur.
• Solo Classical Music - RohiniSahu (1^st Prize)
• Debate - Shraddha Shukla (1^st Prize)

• Students of Music and Dance Department participated in the youth festival at Pt. RSU Raipur and got selected in the Zonal Youth Festival held in Bhopal.

 Group song –

ShraddhaSahuPrachiVerma

TanujaSahuSaumyaSahu

PoojaSoniNandiniSahu

• Solo Instrumental (Sitar) - AnushkaPandit

GROUP DANCE (FOLK)

Shweta Pradhan IndraniNayak

Mamta Patel UshaSahu

PratibhaChokhi Vinita Sahu

GeetaChoudhari Janhawi

KirtiNishad Sevati

Youth Festival 2018-19

• Our students performed for the various categories of Music and Dance in the Youth Festival

Kathak Solo Dance - Pranam Tiwari - 1^st Prize

Speech - Mahira Khan - 1^st Prize -

Group Song- 1^st Prize

• ShraddhaSahu -
• SaumyaSahu
• PrachiVerma
• JyotiSahu
• Tanuja

SheetalParamhans

Youth Festival 2019-20

• Students participated in the Zonal Youth Festival in various Categories of Music and Dance at Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur from 6^th to 7^th November 2019.

• They participated in Solo Classical Dance, Group Dance folk, Solo Song (SugamSangeet) and Group Song. In Solo Classical Dance - DaminiDewangan and Group Dance –PriyaKar and Group- got first position and represented the University at the Zonal Youth Festival (Inter University) at Siwaji University, Gwalior (M.P.) from 18^th to 23^rd 2019.

Vinita Napit ofKathak Dance Department awrded the Young Artists

Scholarship from HRD ministry, New Delhi under Dr. SwapnilKarmahe.

Departmental Events/ Activities/Workshops

S.N	Year	State/National/ International	Title of Workshop	No. of Participants	Sponsored by
1	2015-16	National	Bandisho me nihitsaundaryatatwa	75	CPE grant
2	2018-19	National	Nrityanjali	80	Shri Kala ManjariKathakSansthanBilaspur and AbhijatSangeetAcademy,Nasik
3	2019-20	National	Nrityanjali	100	Shri Kala ManjariKathakSansthanBilaspur and AbhijatSangeetAcademy,Nasik
4	2020-21	State	SDP- 5 days  (online)	100	-------------
5	2020-21	State	Spandan Value Added Course (online)	75	-------------
6	2020-21	State	Nrityanjali (online)	80	------------

Any Other Information about the Department

 Research Guide

No of Research Supervisor (Music) = 01 – IKS University,Khairagarh

No of Research Supervisor (Dance) = 01- IKS University,Khairagarh

PHD Awarded (Music) = 04

PHD Awarded (Dance) = 01

Gallary

YOUTH FESTIVAL

6^TH TO 8^TH NOVEMBER 2019

GROUP DANCE – FOLK

Youth Festival 2015-16

Solo Classical Dance – HimaniKhonde – 1^stprize in the University level and got selected for the zonal Youth festival at Jhansi (BundelKhand University) hold from 19^th November to 23^rd November 2015.

Vinita Napit ofKathak Dance Department awrded the Young Artists

Scholarship from HRD ministry, New Delhi under Dr. SwapnilKarmahe.

Solo Classical Dance -DaminiDewangan

got first position and represented the

University at the Zonal Youth Festival

(Inter University) at Siwaji University,

 Gwalior (M.P.) from 18^th to 23^rd Dec. 2019.

YOUTH FESTIVAL -2018-19

Kathak Solo Dance - Pranam Tiwari - 1^st Prize

Group Song- 1^st Prize

• ShraddhaSahu -
• SaumyaSahu
• PrachiVerma
• JyotiSahu
• Tanuja

SheetalParamhans

20.12.2018	The Students of the Dance Department performed in the ‘World Children Day’ at Pt. RSU Raipur organized by the UNICEF and NSS.
07.01.2019	Students performed in the Cultural Erening of the International Conference of Physics of Pt. RSU, Raipur.

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