Ballet After Dark

The company's founding director, Tyde-Courtney Edwards, discusses how her trauma-informed dance therapy helps young victims of sexual assault and other violence start rebuilding their lives.

Going through violence and trauma can affect people on a cellular level. There’s a nonprofit that helps Black women and youth release trauma and get beyond it - through movement and dance. We talk with Tyde-Courtney Edwards, who drew from her personal experience to create ‘Ballet After Dark.’

It can be difficult to know where to turn after suffering trauma. We meet a dancer who, after surviving a brutal sexual assault, created her own place of…