Ballet After Dark made its television debut on the 17th season of America’s Got Talent (AGT). Their dance routine and coordinated swan movements wowed the judges and the live audience. The dance group also spoke about their survival adventures and determination to start an organization, which moved and motivated the audience.
The AGT finalists are members of the non-profit group Ballet After Dark’, which enables survivors of various types of abuse to heal through interventions and dance therapy, allowing them to “repair their bodies through movement.” Their goal is to provide a safe environment for survivors to rehabilitate and develop as individuals. Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, Sofia Vergara and Simon Cowell, among the judges, praised their passion and emotional strength.
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AGT dance troupe Ballet After Dark offers a safe place for trauma warriors
Ballet After Dark wowed viewers on this week’s broadcast of America’s Got Talent with their strength and endurance (AGT). Before going deeper and adopting a trauma-informed curriculum, the organization began as a series of dance therapy workshops in the community.
Between 2014 and 2018, the group created 52 dance therapy workshops that enabled “offering somatic intervention” to more than 170 women and adolescents in Baltimore City who were affected by various types of abuse and trauma. The AGT Group expanded the curriculum for a full somatic intervention program in 2019. The organization experimented with a micro group of 12 survivors. Since then, their dance therapy program has offered more than 150 adolescent girls and women much-needed healing experiences and tools.
They are a community group that “helps Black adolescents and women process, heal, and reconnect with their bodies through the power of somatic intervention and dance,” according to their Instagram profile. Ballet After Dark collaborated with La Casa Mandarina on a one-off international project that provided funding for 22 survivors from marginalized communities, including Indigenous, trans, and Afro-Latino people. The AGT group offers dance therapy classes such as Black Swan 1 & 2, Aqua-Ballet and Ballet After Dark ensemble. They are welcoming donations for Trauma Dance Relief as part of a group offering support to black survivors.
The group offers a website called Bonfire where people can start a campaign to sell T-shirts online. Viewers can create an online store, sell their goods, organize fundraisers, create their own designs and shop the current market. People can see it by following the link provided on their Instagram accounts. The AGT group has more than 11 thousand Instagram followers and they often update people about their seminars, dance sessions, survival adventures and other activities.
Who founded Ballet After Dark?
Tyde-Courtney Edwards, a classically trained dancer, art model and victim of sexual abuse, developed Ballet After Dark. She was born and raised in Baltimore and attended the Baltimore School of Arts. He has almost 20 years of ballet and dance experience. The creator has studied lyrical, jazz, tap, hip-hop, classical and contemporary ballet, among other dance genres. She came up with the idea for Ballet After Dark while struggling to recover from a sexual assault.
The documentary of the same name by this organization describes the journey of a young lady who found the courage to survive the attack and founded an organization to help survivors recover. It was screened at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, where it received praise and a standing ovation from critics. The seventeenth season of America’s Got Talent was a huge success with viewers, elevating it to the rank of one of the most beloved reality talent competitions on television. Continue to watch the program on NBC.
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