The private space age is booming. As you are reading this, you could purchase a Spaceflight Experience. Your children will take the same trip, at a fraction of its cost, for a very real honeymoon. Today, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Space Perspective, (the list keeps on going), offer unprecedented experiences: from balloon ascents below the Kármán line, to thrill rides above the atmosphere to a 6-month journey orbiting our planet. According to The Exploration Company, three private space stations will be in orbit as early as 2027. The New Space economy is expanding rapidly, with private players across a variety of sub-sectors. We believe Artists, from all walks of lives and disciplines, must be part of this historical evolution. Space activist and actor, Jess Bush notes: "Our expansion into space has the potential to catalyze a significant evolution in our collective awareness." In such transformational times, art and storytelling become crucial in shaping identity, meaning and culture. The absence of artists in the space sector represents a missed opportunity for innovation, public engagement, and addressing the psychological and social challenges of long-term space missions. As we venture further into space, the role of the arts in maintaining human well-being and fostering cultural connection becomes increasingly crucial. We want to blaze a trail where the Performing Arts flourish within the space industry, while benefiting the advancement of science. As such, we must start training the next generation of artists for space environments and begin developing the new stories and experiences we will present and experience for and in Space, today. We call our pursuit: Microgravity Adventures. References: • World Economic Forum, "Space: The $1.8 Trillion Opportunity for Global Economic Growth" • Virgin Galactic, virgingalactic.com • SpaceX, spacex.com • Blue Origin, blueorigin.com • Space Perspective, spaceperspective.com • Vast Space, vastspace.com • The Exploration Company, exploration.space/nyx • MIT, New Space Economy, Olivier de Weck • Jess Bush, “Koons on the Moon”, SpaceNews

What you see are previsualizations of performances in microgravity. Like Pixar, Natasha Tsakos’ creative process begins by storyboarding the experience, which allows her to visually compose each scene. Prior to generative AI, Natasha would use a suite of design software to convert her storyboards into refined visuals. The illustrations you see on this page are the result of hours of conceptualizations, prompting, and fine-tuning using photoshop. From there, Natasha develops an animatic, an animated version of the storyboard — think of it as a movie of the live performance — which allows the team to beta test the performance before going into production. With Microgravity Adventures, the weightless performances materialize through the delicate interplay of live performance — captured aboard the Zero-G aircraft — and post production techniques.

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We are currently funding via grants and fellowships to produce our first weightless performance. Contact us for commissions or to Sponsor a performance in microgravity.

Our first weightless performance will be be dance-theater driven, visually evocative with hints of whimsy and humor and last approximately 15 minutes (including behind the scenes content) filmed over the course of six parabolic flights. The performance will be captured in real-time aboard the Zero-G flight using volumetric 3D cameras — to help us understand motion dynamics of this new medium — with its final rendition presented as a polished art film, disseminated for free on the internet. At its core, the piece will be a contemplation of what we, humans, wish to bring to this new ‘space’, and the stories, beliefs and assumptions we will need to unlearn to start anew. Given the vanguard nature of our endeavor, we anticipate the narratives and visual metaphors to evolve as part of our exploration and experimentation aboard the parabolic flight. This is not a stunt, rather the first performance of many, laying the groundwork for continued training and creation in microgravity, as an inevitable step towards our cultural evolution in space.

Our weightless performances take place aboard the Zero-G aircraft and can be captured in traditional video form using multiple cameras or with volumetric video. The final product can take the form of: Live streamed performance, including real-time behind the scenes content An Art Film to be published online and/or for public and private showings An Art Film and series of sensational still photography for Museums A Commercial to elevate your brand A Music Video to lift your fans' spirits Documentary material A VR or AR experience via: ☞ A mobile app for iOS / Android devices ☞ A mobile app for iOS / Vision Pro ☞ A Vision Pro Mixed Reality experience for a live event or venue ☞ A real-time visual experience with immersive video projections ☞ A metaverse web XR interactive experience that can be viewed on multiple platforms: stationary computer, mobile device, mobile device in AR mode, or VR headset

When gravity no longer is, everything requires a radical reimagining! Movement becomes fluid and unrestricted, altering how performers interact with the space and each other. There will be physical challenges and technical frameworks to experiment with, invent, and perfect. This unique environment gives us an opportunity to fundamentally rethink how performers train and perform when removed from gravitational constraints. Technology-wise, AI and volumetric 3D cameras will analyze our performances captured in zero gravity to unlock new insights into human movement and interaction. This data could contribute to broader applications such as ergonomic designs for space habitats and developing better motion-capture technologies, innovations that could ripple through multiple industries.

We seek to engage the young adventurer, the space-minded-entrepreneur, curious tinkerer, astronaut-aspirer, artist innovator, the parents seeking to inspire, the content devourers, foresighted investor, the cultural promoter and the art lover. We wish to contribute to and work with traditional and new space companies, and cultural institutions, ranging from national museums, STEAM-based educational institutions, to performing arts organizations. Our goal is to make Art in Space part of the broader conversation, ensuring the performing arts flourish alongside the expanding New Space economy.

Only a handful of artists have tinkered aboard the Zero-G aircraft, beginning in the 1980s. The substance and production quality of each project has been deeply experimental — except for OK Go's viral music video "Upside Down & Inside Out" shot aboard multiple parabolic flights from Star City, Russia, which set the bar for the wonderfully surprising theatrical play possible in microgravity. Artistic installations (mostly visual art) in microgravity are now gaining momentum and interest from the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) — part of the French National Space Agency — who has been issuing calls to artists to develop work in microgravity since 2022. With Microgravity Adventures, we are committed to laying the groundwork for continued training and development of original performances in microgravity with a growing team of diverse performance artists, as well as producing work of the highest production values and artistic merit. Notable artists who’ve experimented in microgravity: 1979-80: Richard Lowenberg collaborated with NASA on the Gravitational-Field-Day project, conducting artistic experiments in zero gravity. 1990s: Kitsou Dubois and Frank Pietronigro used parabolic flights through national space agencies to integrate dance and painting into zero-gravity environments. 1995: Retro-utopian Slovenian performance and theater collective Cosmokinetic Cabinet Noordung focused on a 50-year project “Noordung 1995–2045” which research was undertaken by Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Zupančič and Miha Turšič. “Noordung 1995–2045” premiered in Ljubljana in 1995 and repeats at 10-year intervals, predicting “the final reprise of Noordung 1995–2045 will be held in weightless conditions in a collective orbital theater, an observatory rotating around its own axis. (...) In July 1998, Dragan Živadinov passed all medical examinations necessary for cosmonaut training. On 15 December 1999, members of Cosmokinetic Cabinet Noordung performed “Biomechanics Noordung”, conceived and directed by Dragan Zivadinov, aboard one parabolic flight on the Ilyushin 76 aircraft, in Star City, Russia. “Zero Gravity, Anti-Mimesis and the Abolition of the Horizon: On Cosmokinetic Cabinet Noordung’s “Postgravity Art””, MIT Press Direct, “Biomechanics in Weightlessness”, JSTOR. “Biomechanics Noordung, 1999”, Vimeo 2003: V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, an interdisciplinary center for art and technology in Rotterdam, Netherlands, co-organized a series of parabolic flights and activities at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia. The first outcomes, research and projects of the participating artists and scientists of these flights were unveiled at a presentation and a seminar during the Architecture Biennial 2003. 2014: Artists Nahum Mantra and Ale de la Puente created “Matters of Gravity”, an interdisciplinary reflection about the cultural and scientific implications of the concept of gravity. 2016: European astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Jean-François Clervoy sponsor the artistic exploration of dancer Jeanne Morel and digital artist Paul Marlier aboard the Airbus A310 Zero G. Jeanne made her first flight during a CNES scientific campaign. 2016: OK Go's released its iconic music video "Upside Down & Inside Out" shot aboard a parabolic aircraft. It will make you smile all day! 2024: Microgravity Adventures launches. Beginning with the development of its first weightless performance. Stay tuned!