Kayla Hamilton is a Leo Sun with Aquarius Rising and Moon, which means she’s always speaking in draft, dreaming big, and sometimes confusing people mid-sentence. A Bronx-based choreographer, educator, and Bessie Award-winning artist, Kayla loves the WNBA (NY Liberty + Indiana Fever fan), protein coffee, and self-help TikTok’s. She grew up in Texarkana, TX, the oldest child and only daughter in a CME church family, and spent 12 years as a NYC public school special ed teacher before striking out to build her own path. Her artistic practice is wide-ranging: access, dramaturgy, audio description creation, and choreography that integrates ASL and audio description as artistic form. Kayla is the Founder and Artistic Director of Circle O. She also co-directs Angela’s Pulse Dancing While Black and directs Access.Movement.Play at Movement Research. Kayla has consulted for Mellon Foundation and other arts orgs in NYC, performed with Gesel Mason and Kinetic Light, and is still learning how to get out of her own way.
ID: Kayla, a Black voluptuous person, stands with their back against an azure blue concrete wall, and turns their head over their left shoulder to smile joyfully at the camera. They're wearing pink lipstick and their eyebrows are raised in pleasure. Kayla wears a whimsical black and tan thinly-striped shirt with stripes in multiple directions and solid black long sleeves. Their dark locs rest on their shoulders, with some bleached locs throughout their hair. Alison, a white queer femme, lover of lake Michigan, and access coordinator to Circle O, wrote this description from her Chicago home. Photo Credit: Travis Magee.