CULTURAL OUTREACH COMMITTEE
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*Birthdate: April 1
* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador
* Induction: 2013
* Parade Unit: Dance Company
* Parade Special Teams: BDL Facepainter
* Hobbies: Fine Art, Cooking & Video Games
* Favorite Colors: Pink &Black
* Favorite Creole Dish: Seafood & Chargrilled or on the 1/2shell oysters
* Favorite Carnival Song: “Let’s Go Get’ Em” By Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias
* Favorite Mardi-GrasHangout/ Activity: Eating &
Sleeping after the BDL Parade
* Birthdate: June 5
* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador
* Induction: 2016
* Parade Unit: Dance Company
* Parade Special Teams: Choreographer
* Hobbies: Watching cooking shows, cooking &
reading the Bible
* Favorite Color: Pink
* Favorite Creole Dish: Gumbo
* Favorite Carnival Song: “Hey Pocky Way”
* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: 3rd and
St. Charles Ave.
* Birthdate: September 6
* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador
* Induction: 2016
* Parade Unit: Dance Company
* Parade Special Teams: N/A
* Hobbies: Writing, playing Nintendo Switch, Singing
* Favorite Color: Pink
* Favorite Creole Dish: Dressing/ Stuffing
* Favorite Carnival Song: I love ALL Mardi Gras
music!
* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Dancing beside my doll sisters
DANCE-PARADE COMMITTEE
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*Birthdate: April 12
* Affiliation: Cultural Outreach Ambassador,
* Induction: 2017
* Parade Unit: Auxiliary
* Special Teams: Majorette
* Hobbies: Dancing, Zumba, Gardening, Cooking
* Favorite Color: Purple
* Favorite Creole Dish: Okra Gumbo
* Favorite Carnival Song: “Golden Crown” By Bo
Dollis & The Wild Magnolias
* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Bullet’s
Sports Bar in The 7th Ward after the BDL Mardi Gras Parade
* Birthdate: September 29
* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador
* Induction: 2009
* Parade Unit: Dance Company
* Parade Special Teams: Official BDL Face-painter, Choreographer
* Hobbies: Singing, Songwriting & Traveling
* Favorite Color: Purple
* Favorite Creole Dish: N/A
* Favorite Carnival Song: “Made It Thru The Water” by Free Agents Brass Band
* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Krewe of Baby Doll Ladies Mardi Gras Dance-Parade
* Birthdate: June 24
* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador
* Induction: 2018
* Parade Unit: Dance Company
* Parade Special Teams: Choreographer
* Hobbies: Shopping, Watching favorite TV shows, relaxing with family & friends
* Favorite Color: Purple
* Favorite Creole Dish: Gumbo
* Favorite Carnival Song: “Do Whatcha Wanna”
* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Dancing with the Dolls in the BDL Dance-parade
* Birthdate: November 30
* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador
* Induction: 2013
* Parade Unit: Dance Company
* Parade Special Teams: N/A
* Hobbies: Dancing & Crafting
* Favorite Color: Red & Pink
* Favorite Creole Dish: Seafood gumbo and a good crawfish “berl” (boil)
* Favorite Carnival Song: “Do Whatcha Wanna” Pt. 3 by Reirth Brass Band
* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Attending Parades
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HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE
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* Birthdate: January 24
* Affiliation: Cultural Outreach Ambassador
* Induction: 2017
* Parade Unit: Auxiliary
* Special Teams: Trinket Tray Stepper
* Hobbies: Travel, music festivals, History & Community Service
* Favorite Color: Avocado Green
* Favorite Creole Dish: Seafood Gumbo
* Favorite Carnival Song: “We Are One” by Hot 8
* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: BabyDoll Ladies Dance-Parade
* Birthdate: February 11
* Affiliation: Cultural Outreach Ambassador
* Induction: 2019
* Parade Unit: Float Court
* Parade Special Teams: N/A
* Hobbies: Shopping, Reading & Traveling
* Favorite Color: Purple
* Favorite Creole Dish: Atchafalaya: Fried Catfish
over rice with Crawfish Etoufee & Crawfish Bread
* Favorite Carnival Song: “Roll With Me”
* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Parades & Pot luck with Family & Friends on St. Charles Neutral Ground
* Birthdate: April 23
* Affiliation: Cultural Dance Ambassador
* Induction: 2007
* Parade Unit: Dance Company
* Parade Special Teams: N/A
* Hobbies: Dancing, Traveling, & Shopping
* Favorite Color: Tan
* Favorite Creole Dish: Crawfish Bisque
* Favorite Carnival Song: “Feel Like Funkin Up”
* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Dance &
shake in The BDL Mardi Gras Dance-Parade
* Birthdate: August 7
* Affiliation: Cultural Outreach Ambassador
* Induction: 2017
* Parade Unit: Auxiliary
* Special Teams: Majorette
* Hobbies: Reading, Cooking & Dancing
* Favorite Colors: Purple and Pink
* Favorite Creole Dish: Smothered Okra
* Favorite Carnival Song: “Big Girl” By Hot 8
* Favorite Mardi-Gras Hangout/ Activity: Dancing on St. Charles with my doll sisters
CREATIVE PRODUCERS
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Millisia White is a daughter of Louisiana’s distinct Creole heritage who nobly hails as a fourth-generation New Orleans native. Millisia is Alumna of The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, where she trained in dance-arts before turning the seeds of her favorite pastime into an early career. With more than fifteen years of experience as a dance instructor, movement coach and choreographer she has worked with prestigious film production companies such as Studio C Artists, Alexander/Mitchell Productions, the History Channel and French Film One. Ms. White received her BA Degree at the University of New Orleans, with a concentration in film studies.
DJ Hektik is internationally known, as an American Southern DJ-artist from New Orleans, Louisiana. For nearly two decades, DJ Hektik has been spinning, mixing, arranging & hosting radio shows, mainstream CD compilations, party-packed concerts and corporate scenarios of all sorts. Proclaimed music-mix monarch, mix-video jockey, composer, and “seasoned” tastemaker, DJ Hektik is widely sought after by a host of arts & entertainment patrons and fellow artists alike. DJ Hektik’s reputation precedes him for his vast knowledge of the latest technologies and unique quality of blending together both classic and contemporary sounds of Jazz, Hip Hop/R&B. Particularly, to his merit DJ Hektik prides himself as co-founder and (only) Music Ambassador of the New Orleans Society of Dance (NOSD); a community centered, cultural-dance organization. DJ Hektik’s central role of resurrecting, & cultivating the company’s signature “Babydoll Ladies” dance-act and once dormant 102-year-old doll masking, tradition (c.1912) is prominently on exhibit in the Presbytere, LA. State Museum, (January 2013 thru 2014). November 2014, DJ Hektik is featured (performing) with the Babydoll Ladies in the MACYS Thanksgiving Day Parade®
(NYC Herald Square).
Mrs. Dollie Eaglin-Rivas received her BFA Degree at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette and earned an MA Degree at the University of Houston/Clear Lake City. She has traveled throughout the United States and Europe as a teacher, performer, model, and choreographer. Eaglin-Rivas received the Univ. of New Orleans MLK, Jr. Award for outstanding Community Service in 2004. She was honored as Lafayette Branch NAUW’s (National Association of University Women) Woman of Excellence 2011, and received a Cultural Arts Award by the State of Louisiana in 2013. Dollie Eaglin-Rivas is presently an Arts Educator and Talented in Arts Theatre Instructor at Audubon Charter School. She was chosen by her peers as Audubon Charter Schools’ Teacher of the Year in 1998 and 2007. Mrs. Eaglin is also (director of The Big Easy Classical Arts award winning production, Ashe Cultural Arts Centers, The Origin of Life on Earth). In addition, she has presented arts integrated/Comprehensive Arts Education workshops for teachers at Ashe Cultural Arts Center, Institute of Cultural Education, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, Acadia Parish Schools, and New Orleans Ballet Association’s classroom teachers and dance professionals. The New Orleans Arts Council, Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Brown Foundation has contributed funding to numerous projects that Eaglin has directed and produced at Audubon Charter School.
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