Open Call: Kayla Hamilton

Kayla Hamilton (she/her) is a Texas-born, Bronx-based performance maker, dancer, educator, and consultant. Hamilton is currently a Jerome Hill and Pina Bausch Fellow and a NEFA National Dance Production Project Grant recipient. Her past shows have been presented at Gibney, Performance Space New York, New York Live Arts, and Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.

Hamilton codeveloped Crip Movement Lab with collaborator Elisabeth Motley—a pedagogical framework centering cross-disability movement practices for every-body, which they have taught in multiple dance centers and universities. She danced with the Bessie Award–winning collective skeleton architecture, and for Maria Bauman, Sydnie L. Mosley, and Gesel Mason.

Hamilton has developed/designed access-centered programming for the Mellon Foundation, Movement Research, and DanceNYC. She recently founded Circle O, a cultural organization uplifting BIPOC disabled creatives. In 2024 – 25 she will go on a national tour with both How to Bend Down/How to Pick It Up and Crip Movement Lab.

Joselia Rebekah Hughes is working-poor, Afro-Caribbean-descended writer, editor, access provider, and interdisciplinary teaching artist surviving in the Bronx. Her practice resides in lineages of Black and debilitated aesthetics and linguistics. Hughes’s poetry has been nominated for Best of Net and published in or by Apogee Journal, Massachusetts Review, The Poetry Project, Split This Rock, Blackflash Magazine, Leste Magazine, Ocean State Review, and elsewhere. She is a writing student at Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.