The Space Juggler website is up and running!

We’re planning events in July to share the artistic and mathematical works we’ve been developing.

If you’d like to stay up to date and support the creation of Space Art, hop over to the website and sign up for the email newsletter.

www.theSpaceJuggler.com

I had a wonderful time today speaking with Gillian Rhodes on the STEAM Cafe on the CosmoQuestX Twitch channel.

We talked about some aspects of the development of the Space Juggling technique and showed some unreleased video.

If you missed it and want to learn a bit more about Space Juggling, check out the recording! If you know someone who would be super excited to hear about Space Juggling, let them know about it!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1063020860

March 5, 2021
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For the past year and a half, I’ve been developing a new technique for juggling in space. The technique is inspired by my experiences in weightlessness, an understanding of physics, and 20 years of being a circus performer. Very soon, we will be releasing the performance. Until then you can tune into these social media accounts for updates and new weightless movement art content.

February 9, 2021
Article by Leonard David

A new article by space journalist Leonard David describes Adam’s most recent peer-reviewed publication in Acta Astronautica. The article, titled “Choreographic techniques for human bodies in weightlessness,” discusses how microgravity environments present unique movement and perceptual challenges, especially for movement artists. The article additionally offers insights into how to understand and practice movement techniques relevant to weightlessness while on Earth.

July 27 2020
Podcast
Community Coffee with Gillian Rhodes - SciArt Monday with guest Adam Dipert.

Gillian Rhodes is a dancer who has been hosting a podcast on Twitch focused on the convergence of art and astronomy. During this session, we discussed embodiment in weightlessness, what it was like to dance with another person in weightlessness, and how my research may be applied in space and on Earth.

April 25 2020
Online Event
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During the talk, Adam (1) discussed some of the basics of what must be understood to become a competent mover in weightlessness, (2) showed a series of videos which demonstrate particular types of movements which I've incubated from simulation to execution, (3) shared some video of Toni Craige and he dancing in weightlessness, and (4) kept it tight and entertaining.

March 5 - 7 2020
Conference Talk
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Adam presented about his zero gravity movement research at the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces which brings together scholars, designers, artists, and engineers working across technologies of choreography, control, and recognition to investigate how sameness and difference function with choreographic interfaces, and ponder how to productively intervene in the development of these technologies. This convening is intended to catalyze collaborations within a network of strategically placed individuals to make a transformative difference in the design of new choreographic interfaces.

Dec 2019
Publication by Toni Craige and Adam Dipert
Article published in Contact Quarterly Magazine Issue 45.1

Who are we without gravity? How do people living in a gravitational environment train to move without gravity? What aspects of our intelligence and capacity can be accessed when we let go of this primary orientation? These questions and new ones were formed and redefined during our residency with Kitsou Dubois at Smith College in March 2019. We found it fascinating that a training meant to prepare people for zero gravity created such harmony within ourselves on the surface of the Earth. The feeling of buoyancy, ease, and groundedness lasted for weeks. Learning to move in zero gravity challenges fundamental concepts that we have about ourselves and dissolves many habitual behaviors developed while growing up on the surface of a planet.

Dec 2019
Podcast
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Interview with Daniela De Paulis and Paul Carr for the Wow! Signal Podcast about Adam’s research in human movement in weightlessness. During the conversation, Adam's current investigations into zero gravity movement, some future projects, and conceptual ideas Adam has been playing around with were discussed.

https://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2019/12/episode-43-adam-dipert-moves-in-zero-g.html

Oct 23 2019
Conference Talk
International Astronautical Congress, Washington DC, USA

A recording of the talk is on YouTube. The manuscript has been published in Acta Astronautica.

Highlights for paper and video:

• Model of human body shows variability in center of mass location.
• Self-rotation techniques in weightlessness are different than on Earth.
• Previously explored weightless maneuvers for human body have been improved upon.
• Moment of inertia eigenvectors for human body demonstrate stable rotation axes.
• Technique for orienting two spinning human bodies in microgravity are described.