The New Orleans Dance Collective (NODC), a non-profit youth organization, actively links dance with social work and seeks to address the overwhelming need for life-affirming, esteem-building cultural activities for inner-city at-risk youth in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Its mission is to celebrate community and diversity by providing dance programs for inner-city at-risk youth that utilize group therapy techniques as a means of intervention and to positively affect behavior through dance within a group setting.