Invitation to Dance: January 2011

Simi Linton's personal story forms the narrative backbone of Invitation To Dance, a film based on her memoir "My Body Politic." In 1971, Simi was injured while hitchhiking to Washington to protest the war in Vietnam. Suddenly a young disabled college student in New York, she confronts insidious 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.

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Simi Linton, a wheelchair-riding social activist, takes us out dancing with the avant-garde of disabled artists and radical thinkers - unstoppable in their quest for “equality, justice, and a place on the dance floor!”

At age 23, Simi was injured in a car accident while hitchhiking to Washington, DC to protest the war in Vietnam. Suddenly a young disabled college student, she confronted insidious forms of discrimination she couldn't have imagined before. In time, she realized that political activism and a vibrant social life could once again be hers.

During the 1980’s and ‘90’s Simi grew into a life as a writer, professor, and activist when the disability rights movement emerged, and became a leading figure in shaping this new era. Yet, it was her first reluctant foray onto the dance floor at a party which ultimately liberated her from the shame she felt as a young disabled woman, and launched her on the path that led to making this film.

INVITATION TO DANCE is a never-before-told coming out story. Interviews with academics, activists and artists of all stripes bring disability out of the closet, into the light and onto the dance floor.