BA Performing Arts, English and Psychology at REVA University, Bangalore Offline Course

Bachelor of Arts in the subject combination of Performing Arts, English, Psychology is three years (6 Semester) full-time undergraduate program in science stream offered by Reva University, Bangalore.

BA in Performing Arts in Dance, Theatre, Music all come under the broad area of Arts and Humanities. Humanities deals with human life and human experience qualitatively. Humanities investigates how do human beings behave? Why do they behave this way? How do human beings interact with each other? How do human beings interpret the world around them? And What kind of political, social and cultural institutions do they form?

The field of humanities include Modern languages, Classical languages, Linguistics, Literature, History, Jurisprudence, Philosophy, Archaeology, Comparative religion, Ethics, History, criticism and theory of the arts, Journalism, Psychology, Political science and such subject areas.

Bachelor of Arts programme in Performing Arts, Dance, Theatre, Music offered by School of Performing Arts at REVA UNIVERSITY intends to focus on performing Art and impart knowledge on psychology amongst its students.

Theatre, music, dance, and other kinds of performances are present in all human cultures. The history of music and dance date to pre-historic times. In India, religion, philosophy and myth cannot be divorced from their art forms. Dance, Drama and music are tied inextricably to ceremony of any kind. Bharatnatyam, Kathakali, Kathak, Manipuri, Odissi, Kuchipudi, Sattriya, Mohiniyattam are some of the classical Dance forms of India. Similarly, the classical music forms of India are Hindustani Classical Music and Carnatic Classical Music, in addition, there are hundreds of regional music forms and there are many musical instruments to compose and play music. Koodiyattam, Yakshagana, Swang, Bhand Paather, Ankiya Naat Bhaona, Tamasha, Therukoothu, Jatra are some of theatre forms of India. In addition, there are puppet forms. They all adhere to the canons of classical dance laid down in the Natya Shastra, a second century C.E. text ascribed to the sage Bharata, to whom it was supposedly revealed by the Creator, Brahma.