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Est. 2005, NOSD is Louisiana’s culturally
centered dance company.
 

Our mission is to embody, encourage and expose Louisiana vernacular folk artistry throughout communities. The strategic skill of dance-production is our specialty. 

We are fully dedicated to the enhancement of the cultural arts landscape of Louisiana.

  New Orleans Society of Baby Doll Ladies

The Baby Doll Ladies are Presented by the New Orleans Society of Dance

Dance Production Services
Including, yet not limited to the upmost quality in specialty dance-talent recruitment, dance-production coordinating, dance-talent castings & talent acquisitions SERVICES.

Cultural Arts & Entertainment
The Company's signature Ensemble, The New Orleans BABY DOLL LADIES is a living Mardi Gras tradition (c.1912) as well as an American-Southern masking, music & dance act for which the New Orleans Society of Dance is internationally renowned.

Additionally, we offer customized professional dance-acts, tailored specifically for your Live indoor and, or outdoor themed event(s).
Outreach
As a community-centered dance company, NOSD identifies, develops, and enriches burgeoning performing artists, while embodying and exposing the cultural footprint of women's folk-arts and jazz dance traditions in Louisiana. 

As the official historic 
preservationist organization of the Mardi Gras doll-masking traditions, NOSD Baby Doll Ladies is the state's most comprehensive source and artifact proprietor devoted to anthropologically at-risk doll masquerading practices in Louisiana.

What We Do

The New Orleans Society Of Dance Produces quality dance-acts, focusing in clandestine events and the art of set-production. Whether highlighting the best of New Orleans' doll-masking & dancing traditions or choreographing custom stage works, our dance-production company utilizes in house specialists and partner with other certified entities to deliver the best possible arrangement to suit your event needs.

We are the New Orleans Baby Doll Ladies  | The Baby Doll Ladies | The Baby Dolls | New Orleans Society of Baby Doll Ladies | NOSD | Baby Doll Ladies | Original Babydoll | New Orleans Babydolls | Official New Orleans Babydolls | Creole Babydolls | Mardi Gras Babydolls | Dance New Orleans | New Orleans Doll Masking | New Orleans Jass | New Orleans Jazz | New Orleans Carnival Krewe | New Orleans Mardi Gras | New Orleans Cabaret



News

July 4, 2024
As we reflect on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we are reminded of our mission as New Orleans Baby Doll Ladies and why we were founded.
By Millisia White July 3, 2024
Level Up Girls Leadership Program!
By Millisia White July 3, 2024
2024 No Hunger Summer benefiting Second Harvest Food Bank
February 15, 2024
The prestigious Dance-Parade Krewe of New Orleans Baby Doll Ladies and its signature dance-theater ensemble is currently accepting applications for the 2025 "Baby Doll Ladies In Waiting" Mardi Gras Roster.
By Ann K. July 29, 2020
By the New Orleans Baby Doll Ladies (Featuring Keedy Black)

Thank You

 The Krewe of Dancing New Orleans Baby Doll Ladies embarked upon their 2024 season of events including the ninth annual Mardi Gras Day Dance-Parade (Fat Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2024) with the theme "Passing of The Torch." The marching krewe would like to send a very warm thank you to members and donors for contributing to this endeavor. We appreciate and value your continued support.

We are the New Orleans Baby Doll Ladies  | The Baby Doll Ladies | The Baby Dolls | New Orleans Society of Baby Doll Ladies | NOSD | Baby Doll Ladies | Original Babydoll | New Orleans Babydolls | Official New Orleans Babydolls | Creole Babydolls | Mardi Gras Babydolls | Dance New Orleans | New Orleans Doll Masking | New Orleans Jass | New Orleans Jazz | New Orleans Carnival Krewe | New Orleans Mardi Gras | New Orleans Cabaret


Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and  Cultural Justice

Greater New Orleans Foundation

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