Kayla Hamilton is a Texas born, Bronx based performance maker, dancer, educator and cultural consultant, Kayla is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a 2023 Pina Bausch Fellow. Her past performance work has been presented at the Whitney Museum, Gibney, Performance Space New York, New York Live Arts and the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. Kayla co- developed ‘Crip Movement Lab’ with fellow Disabled artist, Elisabeth Motley-a pedagogical framework centering cross-disability accessible movement practices that are open to every-body. She has taught dance at Sarah Lawrence College, Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Iowa. As a consultant,  Kayla has developed and designed programming for disabled artists for the Mellon Foundation, Movement Research and The Shed. As a dancer, Kayla was part of the Bessie award winning skeleton architecture, she has also danced for Maria Bauman, Sydnie L. Mosley and Gesel Mason. Kayla is currently in the process of creating a future organization centering the work of BIPOC Disabled creatives and developing a new evening length performance set to premier in NY in 2024 (TBA).

This is a black & white dance image of Kayla Hamilton, who is a dark brown-skinned Black woman. She is throwing her head back as her dreads flow with her as she pushes her arms outward. Her legs are wide and slightly bent. She is wearing jeans and a knee length cardigan that wraps around her thighs. Behind her are storefronts and cars parked on the street. Photo by Travis Magee.
ID: This is a black & white dance image of Kayla Hamilton, who is a dark brown-skinned Black woman. She is throwing her head back as her dreads flow with her as she pushes her arms outward. Her legs are wide and slightly bent. She is wearing jeans and a knee length cardigan that wraps around her thighs. Behind her are storefronts and cars parked on the street. Photo by Travis Magee.

Past classes and workshops