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Performances by award-winning movement artist Kayla Hamilton, whose work seeks to elevate marginalized voices that exists within multiple intersections — specifically Black, female, and dis/abled — and illuminate their untold stories in mainstream society to create empathy and ignite equality (and who is featured on the cover of this month’s Art in America); and x, a TRANSdisciplinary artist and teaching artist at Mark Morris Dance Center, who offers a conceptual and anti-technique approach to movement-driven performance. Curated by Princeton Arts Fellow Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, a visually impaired choreographer, educator, and accessibility consultant based in New York City.

Cosponsored by Princeton’s Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES).

Tickets & Details

The event is free and open to the public; no tickets required.

Directions

Get directions to the Hearst Dance Theater and find other venue information for the arts complex.

COVID-19 Guidance + Updates

Per Princeton University policy, all guests must either be fully vaccinated, or have recently tested negative (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen test within 8 hours of the scheduled visit) and be prepared to show proof if asked, or wear a face covering when indoors and around others.

Accessibility

symbol for wheelchair accessibilityaccess symbol for open captioning, two white O C lettersaccessibility symbol for audio descriptionaccess symbol for sign language interpretationThe Hearst Dance Theater is an accessible venue with wheelchair accessible/companion seating locations. Open captioning, audio description, and ASL interpreters will be provided.

Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.

 

 

About the Guest Artists

A Black woman with medium brown skin looks directly into the camera with head tilted to the left. She is wearing a tan and black vertically striped shirt and stands in front of red brick wall. She has black shoulder length lots with a few gold locs on the left.

Kayla Hamilton. Photo by Travis Magee

Kayla Hamilton is an artist, producer, and educator originally from Texarkana, Texas, who now resides in Bronx, New York. Kayla earned a BA in Dance from Texas Woman’s University and an MS Ed in Special Education from Hunter College. She is a member of the 2017 Bessie Award-winning cast of the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa. In addition to skeleton architecture, Hamilton dances with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances and Gesel Mason Performance Projects, teaches master classes around the United States, and is the recipient of Angela’s Pulses’ Dancing While Black 2017 Fellowship. Under the name K. Hamilton Projects, she self-produces numerous projects, organizes community events, and writes arts-integrated curriculum throughout NYC. When Hamilton is not dancing, she is a special education teacher at the Highbridge Green School. Learn more about K. Hamilton projects

 


Afro-Asian, agender person with closed mouth smile, standing in front of blurry trees

Choreographer and TRANSdisciplinary artist x. Photo by Friday Anderson

x (they/ze/fae) is a choreographer, curator, Intimacy Coordinator, and TRANSdisciplinary artist. In their creative practice, x offers a conceptual and anti-technique approach to movement-driven performance. Their work leans towards the experimental, avant-garde, and anti-modern. The source material for their work stems from personal experiences and often critiques carceral systems such as the Medical Industrial Complex and Child “Welfare” System. The visceral catharsis brought out through their work is what x calls, “performative processing”; as they work through confusion, chronic illness, childhood trauma, and bigotry. Currently, x is employing the art of humor and various comedic styles for a lighter approach to their work. This provides an alternative to the landscape of trauma porn while challenging x as a performer to make their audience laugh. x has shared short films, installations, and dance works in Budapest, Hungary; Detroit, Michigan; Ithaca, New York; and New York City. Selected accomplishments include Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Program (Hyp-ACCESS, 2021-2022); Movement Research @ Judson (October 2022); AXIS Choreo-Lab Fellow (2022); GALLIM Moving Artist Residency (2022); Bronx Cultural Visions Fund (Bronx Council on the Arts, 2021); LiftOff Residency (New Dance Alliance, 2021); Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance. Residency Program (Dance/NYC, Gibney, 2021-2022). Visit x’s artist website

 

 

Presented By

  • Program in Dance

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