New Orleans Dance Collective

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.

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.

Testimonials

Janet Andrews, MSW, NODC founder, is a native New Orleanian who has been teaching dance for the past 60 years. Ms. Andrews holds a graduate degree in social work from Tulane University and teaches tap at New Orleans Dance Collective, LLC. Through history and across cultures, dance has strengthened communities and helped individuals build self-esteem and self-discipline. As a social work intervention, dance can unite, uplift, teach, inspire, and heal, thus empowering individuals and communities.