SPACE CAMP 2026 is an intimate, week-long gathering of activities, training, and conversations exploring ecologies of care at the intersection of space, the moving body, gravity, and critical inquiry.
The Framing Question: What practices help us attune the body, senses, and nervous system to experiences beyond Earth’s gravity?
In previous years, CRCI has centered its gatherings around conversation, using workshops and embodied practices to deepen the dialogue. This year, embodiment takes the lead — conversation follows.
SPACE CAMP will take place in New York City on March 17th, 18th and 19th and is a ticketed event for enthusiasts to join CRCI’s resident artists in the next phase of CRCI’s research.
CRCI 2026: Space Camp
Meet the Space Camp Facilitators
Dr. C. Adeene Denton is a planetary scientist, historian, and choreographer working at the intersection between astronomy, geology, and the history and ethics of space exploration. Denton's scientific work investigates how collisions between planets have shaped our Solar System, while their artistic work focuses on the changing role of humanity in space exploration's past, present, and future.
Workshop: The Ethics of Bodies in Space in Outer Space
Marcel Stewart is a Hamilton-based theatre maker, director, and educator whose work sits at the intersection of storytelling, technology, and cultural memory. His practice blends live performance with digital tools to explore who we are, how we got here, and where we’re going. As a facilitator, he builds collaborative spaces where artists can stretch themselves and imagine possibilities that don’t exist yet, but probably should. Photo credit: Keemya Parsa
Workshop: No Instructions for the Future
Adam Dipert is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Physics at North Carolina State University and has wowed audiences as a professional circus performer for nearly twenty years. After he started studying human movement in weightlessness as preparation for his first parabolic flight in 2016, he has logged countless hours exploring the frontiers of microgravity flow in pools, aerial harnesses, floatation tanks, wind tunnels, and airplanes. Adam won first place in the 2021 International Jugglers’ Association Championship (individuals division) with a Space Juggling performance video. In addition to developing a new suite of dance moves for outer space, he has exercised remarkable restraint not asking NASA for permission to spin fire on the ISS.
Workshop: Water As An Analog
(they/them) is an international award-winning multihyphenate noted by Brooklyn Magazine as a culture influencer and the Park Avenue Amory as a “trailblazing XR artist to know”. They are a 2025 DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Visual Arts Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, United States Artist Fellow, Creative Capital and two-time "Bessie" Awardee who engages anti-disciplinarity through a critical intersection of the sacred and conceptual in science, technology, and art. Their multi-form works on dark matter and dark energy, via The Unarrival Experiments, have been commissioned across the world and media, including recently at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Black Speculative Arts Movement – Denver, a forthcoming solo exhibition at the California African American Museum, and a manuscript to be published by Wesleyan University Press, Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities.
Sage will be a remote facilitator for Space Camp 2026, offering journaling prompts to the cohort, and being in conversation with the artist residents.
Laila J. Franklin is a multidisciplinary dance artist based in ancestral Naumkeag, Massachusett, Pawtucket land (Boston, Massachusetts), by way of ancestral Nacotchtank and Piscataway land (Washington, DC.) She is interested in meta-commentary, deconstruction, and bits, approaching themes surrounding the human experience with nuance, curiosity, physical rigor, and humor. Her work extends from lineages of traditional and experimental Black, queer dance makers, with a particular interest in the collision of postmodernist creation frameworks and story ballet.
Workshop: All Aboard The Mothership.
