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Adam Dipert is a physicist (PhD), circus artist, and educator exploring how the human body learns to move through gravity.

His work explores how performance, science, and embodied learning inform and shape one another. He collaborates with researchers, artists, and organizations to develop new forms of movement and perception in altered gravity environments. Through projects such as Space Juggling, Math in the Gym, and Altered Gravity, he investigates how movement can reveal the underlying structure of physical laws and human perception. From parabolic flights that simulate weightlessness to classrooms where students learn mathematics through motion, his work uses the body as a tool for understanding the world.

Adam trained as an experimental physicist, and this background informs a hands-on approach to research and design. He has constructed physical environments to study motion under altered conditions, collaborated with educators and researchers, and developed programs that translate complex ideas into lived experience. His projects have been shared through performances, workshops, publications, and public talks.

Alongside his scientific and educational work, Adam maintains a practice in circus arts, using juggling and movement as both expressive medium and investigative method. These practices are not separate from his research, but central to it—allowing questions about gravity, orientation, and perception to be explored directly through the body.

His current work focuses on how humans adapt to unfamiliar physical environments, including microgravity and rotating systems, and what these adaptations reveal about perception, coordination, and the nature of self. This research connects to broader questions about how humans will live, move, and learn in space.

Adam’s work invites a simple question:

What can we discover when we begin to understand the world not only through thought, but through movement?