Odissi dance was acknowledged with the Guinness World Records on on 23 December 2011. 555 Odissi dancers performed in a single event hosted, in the Kalinga stadium, Bhubaneswar, Orissa. The dancers performed the Mangalacharan, Battu, Pallavi, Abhinay and Mokshya dance items from the Odissi repertoire.
More than 1000 Odissi dancers recently performed at the World Cultural Festival. Till date this was the largest congregation of Odissi dancers in a single event.
Recently Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar's BTech syllabus has introduced Odissi dance since 2015. This is the first Indian national technical institute to introduce any dance form in its curriculum. The classical dance would be one of the 'breadth' course of maximum 12 credits during the four years BTech studies. Each credit means, weekly five hours of study for a course.
In January, 2016 the prestigious University of Oxford has opened a center for Odissi dance known as Oxford Odissi Centre, it is an initiative of the Odissi dancer and choreographer Baisali Mohanty who is also a post-graduate scholar at the University of Oxford.
