Circle O, Texarkana, TX (2026)

06/23/2026

✨Dance Class Announcement✨

Transcript Part 1:
Kayla:
Hey y’all, this is Kayla, uh, founder and artistic director of Circle O. I’m a black person wearing a black headscarf, uh, red cat eyeglasses, and around the neck Bluetooth, uh, earphones, a tan shirt. And behind me is, um, a bookshelf with blue LED trim. And this is not a Talking Tuesday. Uh, I am here to announce that Circle O, uh, will be offering a dance class, um, July 16th from 11:00 ‘till 01:00at Movement Research. I’m looking down because I took notes because I don’t... I, I wanna make sure I get everything right. Well, what’s right? But I wanna make sure that I say everything that I intend to say and don’t get overwhelmed by the camera. So I’m gonna start over now that that’s over.
Circle O will be, uh, facilitating dance classes for the next five months for in-person dance classes. That’s right, dance class. No title. It’s a dance class. Um, our first one is July 16th from 11:00 AM to 01:00 PM. The class will be held at Movement Research. Access, Movement Research is an ADA compliance space. There will be an access doula on site. A childcare stipend is available upon request. There is a ground transportation stipend upon request. CART will be provided. And everyone who attends will be, um, given a transition meal, because, you know, in order to keep dancing, we must eat. Um, the space will be designed for you and everyone who attends. So we’ll be asking you all for your access needs and other questions, um, in the registration form. Because of that, we ask that if you do register, um, that you do attend. And if you can’t, for any reason, to please cancel 72 hours in advance so that we can get someone from the wait list in and have a chance to meet their access needs.
You may register in the link in our bio. Uh, classes are a sliding scale from $1 to $10,000. If you have any questions and need to reach out, you may [email protected].

Transcript part 2 and video Description in the comments

06/14/2026

Join us in celebrating Circle O’s Founder & Artistic Director Kayla Hamilton ⭐️

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Meet the Round 3 DFA Artist Fellows! Today we’re celebrating Kayla Hamilton (she/they). ⁠
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Kayla Hamilton was born and raised in Texarkana, Texas, where she grew up surrounded by cows, football fields, and elders in the church. Those early experiences shaped her values of care, listening, and community, which continue to guide her work today.⁠
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Known more for creative problem solving than for speaking in large groups [wink], Kayla thrives in collaboration and in building structures that make space for others. ⁠
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She is the Founder of Circle O (), a platform that brings artists, organizers, and communities together to create, share resources, and practice collective care. Some of her additional roles include directing the Access. Movement. Play. (A.M.P.) Residency at Movement Research () and co-facilitating How We Move, both programs for multiply marginalized Disabled artists. She also serves as a Co-Director of Angela’s Pulse/Dancing While Black. Across these roles, she works to deepen knowledge about disability and to build systems that sustain innovation in disability artistry and Black dance communities.⁠
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Learn more about Kayla Hamilton at .⁠
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Meet all the Round 3 DFA Fellows at the link in bio.⁠
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Supported by .⁠
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05/27/2026

Our Artistic Director & Founder Kayla Hamilton recently facilitated a Mixed Ability workshop

Thank you for having us!!

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Mixed Abled Workshop

Herzlichen Dank an das Pina Bausch Zentrum under construction und Kayla Hamilton für diesen inspirierenden Workshop. Wir tanzen gerne mit euch, um etwas zu bewegen.

Heartfelt thanks to the Pina Bausch Center under construction and Kayla Hamilton for this inspiring workshop. We love dancing with you to make a difference.

Fotos: .de

[Image Description 1: a photo of Kayla, who is a Black woman wearing a bright blue blouse & light orange pants, in motion teaching a class with Disabled dancers.]

[Image Description 2: a photo of all the artists in a big circle inside a dance studio.]

[Image Description 3: a group photo of Disabled dancers exploring movement together. They have their arms floating above them]

[Image Description 4: another group of Disabled dancers moving together with different mobility devices.]

05/12/2026

Welcome to ✨Talking Tuesdays✨
This is where I practice what I invite others into, which is a practice of vulnerability, and moving towards discomfort or being inside of it.

For today, we are thinking about who gets centered in spaces that we create. And we are curious what will happen if we make those decisions consciously.

Let us know below what would happen if we consciously and explicitly named who is being centered in the spaces we create?

Tuesday

[Video Description: a clip of Kayla, who is a dark-skinned Black woman with their locs down. They have red cat-eyed glasses and are wearing a black wrap around the neck headset and a blue sweater. Behind them is a white wall.]

Transcript located in the comments.

05/11/2026

Join us tomorrow at Movement Research for 📚 Studies Project: When Disabled Embodiment Is the Center: An Open Discussion on Pedagogy, Access, and the Body as Knowledge with Kayla Hamilton

Learn more and RSVP by visiting our website: https://movementresearch.org/events/1433/ or click on the

When: Tue, May 12, 2026 | 6:30-8pm
Location: MR Studios, 122CC (150 First Avenue)
Price: Donation-based ($5 suggested) | Spaces are limited and RSVP Required!

Organized by Kayla Hamilton with participants Vanessa Hernandez Cruz, Anaís Gómez, and Parker Ramirez.

**Please note: Masking will be required for this event. Masks will be available at the door.**

About the event:
What happens when disabled embodiment isn’t pushed to the edges, but becomes the starting point? This open discussion invites artists, educators, and practitioners to come together and talk about disabled ways of moving, sensing, adapting, and knowing as powerful ways of teaching and learning.

Instead of treating access as something extra, we’ll explore how disabled embodiment can shape how spaces, practices, and classrooms are designed in the first place. This is a space for sharing experiences and reflecting together on what changes when we lead from lived experience rather than fixed rules or assumptions.

About the artist:
Access. Movement. Play. (A.M.P.) Residency Director
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.

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05/07/2026

Join us on Saturday!!

How Do We Move in Public?
Saturday, May 9, 2026, 4:00-7:00 PM at The Hub, Bronx, NY
RSVP requested (link in SPCUNY’s bio)

Announcing the second program in the 2026 series How Do We ___________ in Public?: a cycle of four free experimental events responding to contemporary crises shaping the cultural field, including the defunding and targeting of public institutions and the erosion of shared civic space. This second program in the series is partnered with BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance during the Boogie Down Dance Series.

Organized by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, this event brings together dancers/choreographers with connections to the Bronx to generate movement-based actions in public spaces in the South Bronx: Argelia Arreola (with support from Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative), Ana ‘Rokafella’ García, Paloma McGregor/Angela’s Pulse, and Alethea Pace. Responding to escalating surveillance, policing, and state violence, particularly the terrorization of Black and Brown communities under ongoing ICE raids, the program advances movement as a counter-response to neglect, with care, and shared imagination, asking how bodies navigate, reshape, and reclaim urban space under conditions of threat.
This program will activate several points along 3rd Avenue and 149th Street, a major cultural crossroads at the heart of the South Bronx called The Hub, and is funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Eugene M. Lang Foundation.

Photo 2: Alethea Pace by Whitney Browne
Photo 3: Paloma McGregor/Angela’s Pulse, Building a Better Fishtrap (Harlem), 2015, by Whitney Browne
Photo 4: Ana “Rokafella” García, Full Circle Souljahs, 2016, by Ali Riojas
Photo 5: Argelia Arreola, ACUSTIKORP, courtesy the artist

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04/30/2026

This semester, I spent time with graduate students in Dance Education at Hunter College.

Through Access as Structure and Moving Together, we explored what it actually means for a dance space to hold more bodies, not by adding modifications and accommodations after the fact, but by shifting the structure from the beginning.

This is the work I’m building through Circle O, and it’s continuing to grow into longer labs and more intentional learning spaces.

[Image description 1: a photo of Kayla, who is a Black woman wearing a long sleeve blue blouse and black pants. She is standing in front of a class teaching about Disability to a group of dance graduate students. Next to her is a tv screen showing a PowerPoint slide.]

[Image description 2: a photo of two group of students going through a series of Circle O prompts.]

[Image description 3: a photo of different materials that were used during the workshop that includes: fidget toys, post it notes, handouts, markers, and blank sheets of paper.]

[Image description 4: a photo of Kayla, who is a Black woman wearing a long sleeve purple blouse and jeans with her short locs pulled back and hoop earrings. She is sitting in a circle with the dance graduate students as she is lecturing. There is a whiteboard beside her with various statements and prompts.]

04/29/2026

Welcome to ✨Talking Tuesdays✨ This is where I practice what I invite others into, which is a practice of vulnerability, and moving towards discomfort or being inside of it.

For Today,
We are thinking about how slowing down and being with the moment changes our bodies, changes our relationship to each other, which then changes the space.

Let us know below what changes for you, whether thoughts, feelings, sensations for you when you allow yourself to slow down and stay with the moment?

Tuesday

[Video Description: a clip of Kayla, who is a dark-skinned Black woman with their locs down. They have translucent glasses and golden hoops, a black T-shirt, and is sitting on a chair in front of a white wall.]

Transcript located in the comments.

04/17/2026

Welcome to a special edition of ✨Talking Tuesdays✨ where we post on a Thursday! This is where I practice what I invite others into, which is a practice of vulnerability, and moving towards discomfort or being inside of it.

For Today,

We are thinking about what it means to have access practice in the beginnings of our process and how that transforms our work.

Let us know below in your current practice, how would including/embedding/integrating/considering access practices in the beginnings of your work can shift what your work becomes?

[Video Description: a clip of Kayla, who is a dark-skinned Black woman with locs that are in a ponytail on her right side. She has cat-eye red framed glasses and silver hoops, a black T-shirt, and is sitting on a wooden chair outside on a porch. Behind her is a yellow house and a window with black trim.]

Transcript located in the comments.

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