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Image description: Tyde-Courtney Edwards is wearing a white long sleeved shirt with a colorful pattern featuring tassels. There’s a white background that makes her red hair, green nails and diamond nose stud stand out and shine. She is smiling and cupping her face. Photo by Root Branch Media Group.
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Susquehannock/Piscataway; Baltimore, MD
Tyde-Courtney Edwards is a classically trained ballerina, art model, and survivor of sexual assault. Born and raised in Baltimore City, she has over 20 years of professional performance and dance education experience. Tyde-Courtney is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and has been trained in various styles of dance including classical and contemporary ballet, pointe, modern, lyrical, jazz, tap and hip-hop. She conceptualized Ballet After Dark after struggling with recovery following her sexual assault. Tyde-Courtney has trained with Debbie Allen Dance Academy, Dance Theater of Harlem, Peabody Conservatory, Joffrey Ballet, Alvin Ailey, and other prestigious dance schools.
Following a devastating attack, she founded Ballet After Dark: a dynamic non-profit organization that has been providing Baltimore City residents with innovative ways to heal their traumas. Our mission is to provide somatic interventions, trauma-informed care, dance therapy and other holistic methods to encourage survivors of various levels of violence to heal their bodies using movement. Ballet After Dark (BAD) helps survivors reprocess, rebuild and reclaim their lives following sexual and domestic trauma. Our goal is to create a community of survivors. Recognizing the growing demand for the resources provided by Ballet After Dark, she launched B.A.D. Studios as a response to the lack of trauma-informed dance therapy somatic interventions available to survivors and community members outside of Baltimore City. Her efforts of contributing to Baltimore’s place as being known for hope, happiness and healing have brought her international recognition with upcoming international residencies in 2023.
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