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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.