Ballet After Dark: Strength & Healing Through the Arts

Online Only
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 1:00 PM  - 2:30 PM EDT 
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Event Details

Please Note: This event has been moved From Friday March 26th to Tuesday May 18th

The Equity Office is seeking to create space to explore creative and restorative paths to healing through a community screening of the acclaimed short documentary film, Ballet After Dark, and a discussion around themes raised in the film.
 
Ballet After Dark tells the story of a young woman who found the strength to survive after an attack. She created an organization that is helping survivors of sexual abuse and domestic violence find healing after trauma through dance therapy. Produced by Tribeca Studios.



Content Warning: In the film, the classically trained ballerina and founder of the Ballet After Dark dance school, Tyde-Courtney Edwards, briefly describes her experience of sexual assault. This begins at 3:00 minutes into the film until the 4:58 minute mark. Please take care and feel free to mute and turn your screen away during these two minutes if you feel safer doing so. During the relating of her experience, there is a dance movement dramatizing while Tyde-Courtney speaks. Throughout the film, Black folks mention sexual violence, assault and domestic violence, and describe the impacts this trauma had on their sense of self, within the context of demonstrating how dance has helped them heal.

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Speakers

Dr Kathy Hogarth
School of Social Work, Renison University College
Special Advisor to the Vice-President, Research and International on Anti-racism and Inclusivity and Associate Professor
Dr Naila Keleta-Mae
Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
Associate Professor
Dr Trish Van Katwyk
School of Social Work, Renison University College
Associate Professor

Location

Available Online Only
Instructions will be sent out via email after registration.

Tickets

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Price
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Human Rights, Equity, and Inclusion 

Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion (HREI) supports, educates, and brings members of our campus community together to facilitate understanding, address discrimination and harm, influence and advance systemic changes towards making the University of Waterloo an equitable and safe(r) place where everyone can thrive. For more information and to explore the five intersecting portfolios that support the work we do, please visit our website