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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shedding
Through a year and a half spent in bed due to acute illness, lifelong disability, and the cumulative effects of structural inequities, Kai Hazelwood was accompanied by her beloved snake Bisoux. Shedding weaves curiosity and play into learning how to survive a personal apocalyptic moment, and illuminates how these ideas are also critical for ongoing healing from the effects of surviving colonization and its offspring: white supremacy, capitalism, cis-heteronomativity and ableism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m Breaking Up with Dance: I Can’t Heal in the Same Relationship That Hurt Me
Written for Imagining: A Journal Published by Gibney Dance and Edited by Eva Yaa Asantewaa. This piece catalogs my intertwined journeys through concert dance and racism.