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ADAM DIPERT is a physicist and movement practitioner whose work bridges experimental science, embodied cognition, and altered gravity research. Since 2002, he has maintained a professional practice in contemporary circus and movement-based performance, with particular focus on object manipulation, balance, and rotational dynamics. His long-term engagement with movement inquiry informs the central argument of Body in the Sky: that gravitational orientation is not merely a physical constraint but a formative condition shaping bodily organization and conceptual structure.

Dipert’s research into altered gravitational environments began in 2014 and has included three parabolic flight campaigns, where he conducted embodied investigations of translation, rotation, and perceptual reorganization in weightlessness. He has developed interdisciplinary training curricula using analog environments such as float tanks, water immersion, rotating systems, aerial harnesses, and studio-based protocols to examine how sensorimotor coherence reorganizes when gravitational assumptions are modified. His work has brought together dancers, engineers, and scientists in collaborative inquiry, including hosting movement-based altered gravity research initiatives in university and laboratory contexts.

He holds a BS in physics from The Ohio State University and a PhD in experimental nuclear physics from Arizona State University. His scientific research has included work at Arizona State University, NC State University, Duke University, the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. His investigations into rotational dynamics and artificial gravity systems have contributed to peer-reviewed publications, including work on object trajectories and rotating space habitats published in Nature. This combination of laboratory science and embodied experimentation underpins the interdisciplinary framework developed in Body in the Sky.