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.
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.
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.
Downtown Dance and Movement
With Kai’s leadership as founding Artistic Director, DDM became a home for LA’s experimental dance and performance community, with a special focus on Disabled artists and offering physically accessible and gender inclusive facilities.
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.
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.
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.
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.