The New Orleans Dance Collective actively links dance with social work and seeks to address the overwhelming need for positive, life-affirming, esteem-building cultural activities for inner-city at-risk youth in post- Katrina New Orleans. NODC and Tulane City Center (TCC) have identified a site in the mid-city area for a new Dance Studio to develop a design proposal to engage and expand the current and future NODC activities. The design and programmatic vision developed by TCC and NODC Executive Director Janet Andrews implements a series of spaces to embody NODC’s mission in the community and to act as an important public attractor for the area where it is located.

RESEARCH and DESIGN TEAM 

MARCELLA DEL SIGNORE  Advising Professor

JADE JIAMBUTR  TCC Intern

JASON LEVY  TCC Intern

NICHOLAS SACKOS  TCC Intern

TULANE CITY CENTER 

SCOTT BERNHARD Director

DAN ETHERIDGE  Associate Director

EMILIE TAYLOR Senior Program Coordinator

NEW ORLEANS DANCE COLLECTIVE

JANET ANDREWS  NODC Executive Director

NODC Visioning Booklet