Dance For Life was founded by PBDT Artistic Director, Jaime Carabetta. Jaime knows firsthand that dance saves lives and that all people NEED the joy, vitality, beauty and power of Dance.  Jaime is a Survivor of Childhood Sexual and Physical Abuse, and dance provided a much needed way of transcending her circumstances.  The daughter of an Argentine immigrant,  she was not able to study dance formally until college, so Jaime made dances and learned as much as she could from books and films.  At the age of 17, she landed her first gig as a paid dancer in a musical and went on to perform in 3 other musicals.  She also began teaching dance and has since taught dance to students ages 3 to 83, from Japan and South Central Los Angeles, and is presently teaching in the college.  Jaime’s vision is to improve and change lives through exposure to world class contemporary dance performances and through professional dance instruction.