Ballet After Dark made its television debut on America’s Got Talent (AGT) Season 17. Their dancing routine and coordinated swan-like motions wowed the judges and the live audience. The dancing group also spoke about their survival adventures and their determination to form an organization, which affected and motivated audiences.
The AGT finalists are members of the non-profit group Ballet After Dark,’ which enables survivors of different sorts of abuse to heal themselves via interventions and dance therapy, enabling them to “repair their bodies through movement.” Their goal is to provide a safe environment for survivors to rehabilitate and flourish 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 group 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 started as a series of community-based dance therapy workshops.
Between 2014 and 2018, the group created 52 dance-therapy workshops that enabled “offering somatic intervention” to over 170 women and adolescents in Baltimore City who had been affected by different types of abuse and trauma. The AGT group expanded the curriculum for a full-fledged somatic intervention program in 2019. The organization experimented with a micro-cohort of 12 survivors. Since then, their dance-therapy program has offered over 150 adolescents and women much-needed healing experiences and tools.
They are a community group that “helps black adolescents and women reprocess, heal, and reclaim connections with their bodies via the power of somatic intervention and dance,” according to their Instagram profile. Ballet After Dark collaborated with La Casa Mandarina on a one-time international project that provided resources to 22 survivors from marginalized communities, including indigenous, trans, and Afro-Latina individuals. The AGT group offers dance therapy classes such as Black Swan 1 & 2, Aqua-Ballet, and the Ballet After Dark ensemble. They welcome contributions for trauma-induced dancing assistance as part of a group that offers support for black survivors.
The group offers a website called Bonfire where people may run a campaign to sell T-shirts online. Viewers may create an online store, sell their goods, organize fundraisers, create their own designs, and buy in the current marketplace. People may see it by following the link provided on their Instagram accounts. The AGT group has over 11K Instagram followers, and they frequently update people on their seminars, dancing 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 reared in Baltimore and attended the Baltimore School of the Arts. She has almost 20 years of ballet and dancing expertise. 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 recuperate from a sexual attack.
The documentary of the same name by the organization chronicles the path of a young lady who found the fortitude to survive an assault and founded an organization to assist abuse survivors recover. It was shown at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, where it received critical praise and ovation. Season 17 of America’s Got Talent has been highly successful with viewers, elevating it to the rank of one of television’s most adored reality talent contests. Continue to watch the program on NBC.
