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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Practice Progress
Practice Progress is a relational commitment between Kai Hazelwood and Sarah Ashkin to practice, embody, risk, and learn with you; to commit to lifelong anti-racisting together.
Kai and Sarah are a Black lady and white lady, and they are in a caring personal relationship, a professional collaboration, and they also make public facing creative work.
The Modern Breakdown
An advanced Modern Dance course designed for and offered at Chapman University Dance Department: We will identify core values of Modern Dance, and then recontextualize and reimagine them.
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.