Kayla Hamilton

Artist

she/they

Bronx, NY

Kayla poses in profile in front of a light blue background. She is a milk chocolate-skinned Black woman who is wearing a long sleeve black and tan striped shirt. She has shoulder length dreadlocks and a glowing smile.

Kayla Hamilton is a Texas-born, Bronx-based performance maker, dancer, educator, and consultant. Hamilton is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Pina Bausch Fellow, and a NEFA National Dance Production Project Grant recipient. Her past shows have been presented at Gibney, Performance Space New York, New York Live Arts, and Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. Her latest choreographic work will premiere at The Shed in August 2024.

Hamilton co-developed Crip Movement Lab with collaborator Elisabeth Motley, a pedagogical framework centering cross-disability movement practices for every-body, which they have taught in multiple dance centers and universities. She has danced with Bessie award-winning skeleton architecture and for Maria Bauman, Sydnie L. Mosley, and Gesel Mason. She has developed and designed access-centered programming for the Mellon Foundation, Movement Research, and DanceNYC. She recently founded Circle O, a cultural organization uplifting Black Disabled creatives. In 2024–2025, Hamilton will go on a national tour with both How to Bend Down/How to Pick It Up and Crip Movement Lab.