{"id":32694,"date":"2026-06-10T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-label.eu\/workshopdance-with-kayla-hamilton\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:02:00","slug":"workshopdance-with-kayla-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-label.eu\/en\/workshopdance-with-kayla-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"WORKSHOP:dance with Kayla Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Title:<\/strong> Improvisation as Disability Culture
Facilitator:<\/strong> Choreographer, Educator & Cultural Worker Kayla Hamilton
Date:<\/strong>\u00a0 May 28, 2026 (Thursday), 5 pm -7:30 pm\u00a0
Location:<\/strong> Un-Label Studio
Language:<\/strong> English Spoken Language<\/p>\n

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About<\/h2>\n

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In this one-day dance workshop, we explore dance improvisation through the lens of lived disability experience.<\/p>\n

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Accessibility is the starting point of all artistic work here. The workshop is led by Kayla Hamilton, a performance artist, dancer, and educator from the Bronx, whose work centers the lives, stories, and works of Black disabled people. Drawing from an intersectional perspective, the workshop asks how racism, ableism, and other power structures inscribe themselves in the body and in artistic practices. And examines how improvisation can be a space in which these experiences are made visible and transformed.<\/p>\n

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We move away from fixed ideas about what art should be and how it should look. Each session includes guided, open-ended prompts that can be engaged from a range of positions – sitting, standing, lying down, moving, or observing – allowing participants to choose the pace and level of involvement that feels right for their bodies.<\/p>\n

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We will use a mix of verbal, visual, tactile, and imaginative cues to support different ways of participating, while building in space for rest, pause, and reflection. Together, we will practice listening, adapting, and responding to ourselves and each other, understanding improvisation as a shared process of attention and relationship.<\/p>\n

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Technique is redefined \u2013 not as sameness or replication, but as presence, connection, and responsiveness in the moment.<\/p>\n

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This workshop is open to disabled people without prior experience who want to be creative, try something new, and have their first experiences with dance in an open and welcoming atmosphere. At the heart of it is the joy of movement, experimentation, and shared discovery.<\/p>\n

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Speaker<\/h2>\n

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Kayla Hamilton<\/p>\n

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Kayla Hamilton<\/a> is a choreographer, educator, and cultural worker working at the intersections of disability and blackness. Her work has been presented at The Shed<\/a>, Gibney<\/a>, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance<\/a>, and New York Live Arts<\/a>, and she has performed with Kinetic Light<\/a>, Sydnie L. Mosley<\/a>, Paloma McGregor<\/a>, and Gesel Mason<\/a>. An United States Artist Disability Futures Fellow<\/a> and Bessie Award<\/a> recipient, Kayla leads as co-director of Angela\u2019s Pulse Dancing While Black<\/a> and as co-facilitator of How We Move<\/em>,<\/a> a summer intensive for disabled artists. She also directs the Access.Movement.Play Residency at Movement Research<\/a>, cultivating new ways of\u00a0 creating through disabled embodiment. A former public school special education teacher, Kayla brings care and rigor into her work as a consultant with institutions including the Mellon Foundation<\/a> and New York Live Arts<\/a>. Her practice spans choreography, dramaturgy, and writing verbal descriptions, pushing dance to be expansive, accessible, and just. Kayla is a fellow of the Pina Bausch Fellowship for\u00a0 Dance and Choreography<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Access<\/h2>\n

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All event spaces are wheelchair accessible. Assistance dogs are welcome.<\/p>\n

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