A week long explorative dance intensive with AXIS Dance Company to challenge and learn new skills derived from the company's working ethos and repertoire that will enhance and develop your own practice in improvisation, choreography and performance. The week also includes a specialized teacher training for dance teachers and experienced artists wanting to enhance their skills and working methods in inclusive dance and translation for dancers with physical disabilities.
At age 23, Simi Linton was injured while hitchhiking to Washington to protest the war in Vietnam. Suddenly a young disabled college student, she confronted discrimination she couldn’t have imagined before. Simi emerges as a resourceful activist, and in time realizes that love, sexuality, and dance can once again be central to her life.
Invitation to Dance
A documentary film by Christian von Tippelskirch & Simi Linton The Regent Theatre
7 Medford Street
Arlington, Mass. Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 7:30pm Purchase tickets
There are 15-20 wheelchair spaces in the theatre so it might be best to request a space in advance.