Webinar: From Stage to Weightlessness – The Making of PARABOLES

Co-Hosted by The AIAA Gravity Dependent Science and Technology Technical Committee (GDST-TC), formerly the Microgravity Space Processes Technical Committee (MSP-TC). Natasha Tsakos shares the story of Space Wonders: the first theatrical company for space, and PARABOLES, a fully choreographed performance in microgravity currently in preparation for flight.

Tsakos is a director, performer, and producer; Founder & Show Maker of SpaceWonders.co; has performed across six continents, from TED and the Super Bowl with Cirque du Soleil to the G20 Summit, Discovery Channel, and Tribeca Film Festival. She speaks globally, including at the United Nations General Assembly and Google, on how art shapes innovation.

Join us and discover what it takes (physically, cognitively, creatively) to rehearse for a stage that doesn’t exist yet, and why culture, performance, and the arts are the infrastructure of a thriving civilization, on Earth and beyond it.

Session is hosted by Robert C. Wolcott, Adjunct Professor of Innovation at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University and venture investor and Co-Founder of TWIN Global.

Co-Moderator is Jason Lee, Associate Professor in Residence, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Connecticut; Secretary and incoming Vice Chair, AIAA Gravity Dependent Science Technology Technical Committee (GDST-TC) (aka Microgravity Space Processes Technical Committee (MSP-TC))