PROJECTS
A conversation with Toni Krizter, a fellow Disabled artist, birthed the term ‘Chronic Projects.’ GTM’s relationship to projects may change, but they stay with us, reoccur, shape shift, and overlap just like the history of pain and illnesses in our Disabled bodies and minds.
From dance to writing, festivals to community space building, healing arts projects and more than human kin relational research, GTM’s projects have taken different shapes across a vast spectrum — all informed by years of embodied research and many collaborators.
Each project inhabits several categories, united under GTM’s values: use the tags below to navigate by category, and please note that all projects hold multiple tags.
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Unicorn pARTy
Unicorn pARTy is a celebration featuring performances, art, and revelry centering Bi+ artists and celebrating love for more than one gender.
Shedding Playground with shy*play
Guided session for shy*play’s workshop series ‘for the listen to live here.’ Continuing the exploration of neuroqueering approaches to sociality, this session took the form of a playground for slowness, hybridity, and togethering. Happening simultaneously online and offsite, it was inspired by the wisdom of snakes and creatures who shed their skin and Disabled wisdom of virtual togetherness.
Shedding: Choose Your Own Adventure
A choose your own adventure piece of writing from Shedding, our long term embodied artistic research project into the wisdom of our Snakecestors. Published in the Spring 2026 print and online edition of Stance On Dance.
Safe(r) Bodies
A space for FLINTA+ to explore embodied practices of safety and agency in public spaces. This event was a collaboration between Clem Mondot, Vasilia and Kai Hazelwood combining expressive arts, embodied healing, and communal processing.
Solidarity Fest: CareFULL
Facilitated an embodied experience called CareFULL. A practice exploring collectively dreaming access for ourselves, each other, and our lives as part of the BIPOC Solidarity Fest by Hangout 070.
We Gather in Grief
In the final week of January 2026, as part of the ATD Lectorate’s Research Month, the Grief and Listening Collective (Anna Arov, Kai Hazelwood, and Rajni Shah) were in residence in the dance studio at the ATD (Jodenbreestraat).
Dance Beyond Ableism: Ready, Set, Play!
Encounters with dance artists from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Experience the joy of dance in accessible welcoming spaces. Together, we’ll celebrate creativity, community, and expression through the art of movement. Created in partnership between Theater Group Domino, ReDiscover Me, Dance in Education and the Lectorate at the Academy of Theater and Dance, Amsterdam University of The Arts.
2Dh5 Festival, Ableism In Activism
2Dh5 Festival is a skill sharing festival building tools for an anti-facist future. Ableism in Activism is an embodied practice co-facilitated by Kai Hazelwood and Romi Brouwhuis.
For Snakecestors and Slime Mothers
A small poem commissioned by Interspecies Entanglements born from Shedding, our long term embodied artistic research project into the wisdom of our Snakecestors.
Re Nature Festival 2025, GRIEF SPACE
Organized by Venus Jasper and co-faciliated by Kai, Anna Arov and Rajni Shah. Grief space offers room for grief practices, circles ceremonies and togetherness focused on eco-grief, and climate anxiety. A space for collective grief, personal grief, skill exchange and rest.
Care Dreaming
An embodied dreaming practice for Disabled community to take lessons around care from our past and present and use them to help us dream an accessible future. Offered by Werk Groep Validisme in Amsterdam and facilitated by Kai Hazelwood.
On Grief at the End of the World: A Black, Disabled, Queer Ritual for Personal and Global Apocalypse
Shedding is personal process, an interpersonal practice, and a guide map to societal and structural justice. Guided by the wisdom of creatures who shed their skin, On Grief At The End Of The World is a reflection on a moment of personal apocalypse and a ritual or practice for liberation.
Interspecies Entanglements Symposium
Shedding workshop presentation during the one-day symposium to mark the launch of the book Interspecies Performance co-edited by Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca and Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp.
HomeBody Living: EMDR/Somatic Therapy
HomeBody Living is the embodied healing practice of body-based artist, Kai Hazelwood. I am a life long body-based artist and experienced healing arts facilitator, a survivor of childhood trauma, racism, and sexual violence. I am a Disabled Queer and Black cis woman. I bring all of my lived experience and training in embodiment to you.
Crip Crap Community
In 2024, Kai co-founded Crip Crap Community Utrecht, a community by and for crips/spoonies/disabled folks for support, mutual aid, and fun! Crip Crap also offers workshops exploring access as a communal practice.
The Shed
A virtual playground inspired by snakes and creatures who shed their skin! Participants were invited to choose their own adventure through a beautiful virtual world created by our friends at Garden. There, they could slow dance with snakes, play with reptile time, read, watch, and/or listen to a collection of experiences created by Kai Hazelwood over the last two years as a part of The 5th Group of Companions of THIRD at DAS Graduate School.
The Move Concert
Seven dance artists + more than 30 singers and musicians live on stage. Tender duets, darkly funny solos, body percussion, and an unhinged rendition of the holiday classic the Nutcracker in 7 minutes to close the show.
Reptile Time: An Embodied Play Date
Guided by the wisdom of creatures who shed their skin, who live perpetually in massive transformation, we will play with how to cultivate a deep slowing down to reach Reptile Time. Through easeful movement, breath, sensation tracking, journaling and resting.
Pieter
As the first Black and Disabled leader of this historically white-led and inaccessible organization, I was tasked with changing Pieter into the organization it had claimed to be on paper but had yet to embody in real life.
Dear Mom
Dear Mom is a visceral and touching movement film inspired by the sometimes painful love of a parent not understanding their queer child. The film begins with the themes of misunderstanding and subjugation, moves to rebellion and conflict, and ends with healing and understanding.