MEET THE CREW

Natasha Tsakos is an award-winning showmaker creating theatrical adventures at the intersection of art, technology, and space. Her work spans the G20 Summit, Super Bowl with Cirque du Soleil, TED, Discovery Channel, and Tribeca Film Festival, and she has spoken on performance and innovation at the United Nations General Assembly, Google, and beyond. Trained with NASA, MIT’s New Space Economy program, and the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences, Tsakos is developing PARABOLES, the first prototype for the performing arts in space, filmed in microgravity aboard Zero-G aircraft in partnership with MIT Space Exploration Initiative. A founding member of Duckweed Labs, a NASA-awarded space food startup, she is building the cultural infrastructure for life beyond Earth, crafting the theatrical language of the space age.

Luis Alberto Cuevas is a Dominican-born, NYC-bred choreographer and performer whose work moves between stage, screen, and immersive worlds. Luis has performed with Rosie Herrera Dance Theater, Teo Castellanos’ D-Projects, and in Diane Paulus’ The Donkey Show. His choreography has been commissioned by New World Symphony, The Dranoff International Foundation, and seen in the Peabody Award-winning HBO Max series David Makes Man, as well as with artists like Deborah Cox and Camila Cabello. As lead choreographer and soloist for PARABOLES, Luis now brings his signature fusion of theatricality and precision to microgravity, crafting movement for the space age.

Gabija Birina is a Latvian-born performer and choreographer whose work moves between ballet, contemporary, immersive theater, and interdisciplinary art. Trained at the Latvian National Ballet School and Copenhagen’s National School of Contemporary Dance, she has performed across Europe with IR Chamber Ballet and Dance Theatre Stars Well, appearing at festivals from Stockholm Fringe Fest to Israel’s SUKKOT Dance Festival. Her collaborations include performances with Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca at Art Basel and co-creating the jazz-theater hit After Midnight, which toured Latvia and earned acclaim at London’s Camden Fringe. Gabija joins PARABOLES to explore movement beyond gravity, where dance, space, and story become one.

Enrique Villacreses is a Miami-based dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. A recipient of the Dance Miami Choreographers’ Award, his work has been supported by Miami Light Project and Pérez Art Museum Miami, with choreography and films featured at ScreenDance Miami, 92NY Future Dance Festival, and Frontiers Planet Prize Awards. He has directed and filmed projects for Soul Clap, Ballet Flamenco La Rosa, and Dimensions Dance Theater of Miami, and performed with Miami City Ballet, the Billboard Latin Music Awards, and in Pitbull’s music video. For PARABOLES, Enrique brings his eye and talent for movement and cinematic language to microgravity, capturing the poetry of weightlessness through a new artistic lens.

Octavio Campos is a Cuban-American choreographer, educator, and performance provocateur whose four-decade career fuses spectacle, activism, and soul. Trained under Pina Bausch’s legacy at Folkwang Hochschule, as well as at the Martha Graham School and SUNY Purchase, he has worked across Europe and the Americas with artists including Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, and Vivienne Newport. A master of immersive, site-specific performance, Campos founded Camposition and has reshaped audience-performer dynamics with Juggerknot Theatre Company and Pioneer Winter Collective. As Director of Human Readiness Training and Creative Exploration for PARABOLES, he prepares artists for microgravity and beyond with rigor, mindfulness, and a deep belief in transformation.

Adam Dipert is a physicist, professional circus performer, and altered gravity movement expert. After several parabolic flights and pioneering research in human movement in weightlessness, Adam developed Space Juggling which led to working with astronauts and juggling awards. Adam focuses on the development of body and cognitive awareness as they arise from our sensorimotor apparatuses and how motion is planned, sensed, and initiated in altered gravitational environments, with focus on weightlessness, Earth gravity, and rotating environments.

Florencia Franceschetti is a Miami-based PR director, creative strategist, and award-winning journalist. As Director of Togetherwith’s Miami division, she has led campaigns for brands including Diesel, Red Bull Music, and NIU Technologies. She is Music Editor at Miami New Times and has written for outlets such as the Miami Herald, Bandcamp Daily, and Artburst. In 2013, she founded Too Much Love Magazine, a long-running platform for Miami’s counterculture, and she hosts The Making Of podcast, exploring iconic albums with legendary artists. Having interviewed cultural figures from Yoko Ono to Debbie Harry and appeared at Miami Book Fair and Billboard Latin Music Week, Florencia brings sharp editorial instincts and deep music-culture fluency to every project she touches.

Stephany Torres is a Miami-based marketer, event producer, and co-managing director at TogetherWith, where she positions hospitality, culture, and lifestyle brands through holistic strategy and experiential campaigns. Co-founder and former production director of Raygun Agency, she spent over a decade at the heart of Miami’s creative scene, shaping its nightlife and cultural landscape and developing work for clients including Red Bull, Diesel, Porsche, and Sony Music. Previously, she served as senior marketing manager for POPLIFE, deepening her expertise in brand building through music-driven experiences and community-first storytelling.  Stephany continues to build bridges between local creativity and the global stage, crafting integrated marketing ecosystems and events that feel as intentional as they are unforgettable.

Anna Shaposhnik is the founder and CEO of ORBES, a Techstars-backed space robotics startup building autonomous free-flying drones for inspection and cinematic filming inside space stations. A creative technologist and USC Iovine & Young Academy and Rocket Propulsion Lab alum, she works at the intersection of industrial design, robotics, and the space industry—reimagining how cameras, crews, and machines move in microgravity. Formerly a marketing lead and illustrator for orbital refueling pioneer Orbit Fab, Shaposhnik now channels her art-and-engineering lens into ORBES, building the robotic workforce that will keep future stations safe, efficient, and visually alive.

Vivian Marthell is the co-founder and CEO/CCO of O Cinema, Miami’s largest independent art house cinema and a hub for next-generation storytelling through experimental film, VR, and immersive experiences. With over 30 years in the arts and nonprofit sectors, she has focused on strengthening South Florida’s cultural landscape, earning a Knight Arts Champion award from the Knight Foundation for O Cinema’s impact on Greater Miami. 

Kathryn Garcia is the Artistic & Executive Director of Live Arts Miami, the trailblazing performing arts series of Miami Dade College dedicated to bold, socially engaged work. Under her leadership, Live Arts Miami has championed impact-driven programming, from the climate-focused ECOCultura initiative and large-scale works like Holoscenes and Ocean Filibuster to immersive collaborations at Superblue Miami and civic projects such as the Make Your Mark Miami voter rally. Garcia works at the intersection of art, community, and justice, supporting local and international artists who use performance to challenge perceptions, spark dialogue, and catalyze change.

Beth Boone is the Artistic & Executive Director of Miami Light Project, where since 1998 she has developed critically acclaimed programs that have made the organization a leading force in South Florida’s cultural landscape. Over her 35-year career in the arts, she has championed contemporary performance, launched the influential Here & Now commissioning program, pioneered Cuba–US cultural exchanges, and co-created The Light Box, a creative home for Miami-based and international artists.In 2024, Boone received the national Berresford Prize, recognizing her longtime dedication to building environments where artists can do their most adventurous work.

Henryk Dabrowski, PhD, MSc, is CEO of X-trategy Consulting Group and Areca Financial Services, and Managing Director of STX Aerospace, a venture and growth capital fund focused on space and defense technologies. He brings over 30 years of experience leading multinational ventures in technology, fintech, blockchain, mobile payments, and aerospace, alongside a global track record in venture capital, private equity, and institutional investor financing. As former Chairman and CEO of Alternet Systems (OTC: ALYI), Dabrowski helped build a leading mobile financial services software company, raising more than $250M in capital, executing mergers and acquisitions, and steering multiple successful exits. Today, through STX Aerospace Venture & Growth Capital Fund, he backs dual-use aerospace and deep tech innovators shaping the next wave of the space economy. 

Ignacio Krasovitzky is the CEO and Founder of Xponential Space, a strategic consulting and market intelligence firm that accelerates the commercialization of space-based capabilities across non-space industries worldwide. A venture partner at Beyond Earth Technologies, he helps identify and support early-stage space companies at the forefront of the new space economy. With a background spanning entrepreneurship, strategic partnerships, and international market development, Ignacio works at the intersection of space, industry, and investment, bridging orbital innovation with real-world demand on Earth. 

Theo Edmonds, JD, MHA, MFA, is a Culture Futurist® and founder of Creativity America, a national partnership movement for the future of creative work. An artist, poet, entrepreneur, and analytics innovator, he bridges the creative industries, brain science, and technology to help organizations unlock “creative brain capital” and build resilient, AI-era cultures. With three decades of cross-sector leadership spanning healthcare, social innovation, academia, and the creative economy, Edmonds has led initiatives for Fortune 100 companies, governments, universities, and national arts organizations, and was named one of Southern Living’s “50 People Changing the Face of the South” for co-founding IDEAS xLab. 

Joanna Bloor is a Potentialist and founder of The Amplify Lab, where she helps leaders and organizations see and scale human potential in the future of work. A former startup and media executive, she spent nearly two decades building companies including OpenTable, CBS Interactive, and Pandora before turning her focus to the “economy of potential.” Today, she works at the edge of emerging ideas, as a keynote speaker, author of Tales of Potential: The Cinderella Story You Haven’t Heard, and inventor of Potentialism, guiding people to rethink how they tell their stories and design the futures they want to lead. 

Jonathan Satchel is Project Manager for the CEO at Space Center Houston, a nonprofit science and space exploration learning center with extensive education programs. An industrial engineer and emerging spaceflight professional, he has served as Biological Lab Officer on the M6 Żuławski analog lunar mission at Poland’s LunAres Research Station, focusing on human health, life-support systems, and off-world habitat design. A graduate of the University of Houston now pursuing graduate studies at Harvard University, Satchel works at the intersection of engineering, microbiology, and analog research to help design sustainable living systems for future astronauts and explorers.

Vivekanand Pandey Vimal, PhD is a research scientist at Brandeis University’s Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab, where he studies how the human brain and vestibular system adapt when gravitational cues are disrupted. His work uses spaceflight analogs, motion platforms, and machine learning to understand and mitigate spatial disorientation—most recently through a Translational Research Institute for Space Health project on AI-based countermeasures for astronauts. At the intersection of neuroscience and human spaceflight, Vimal helps design tools and training that keep future explorers oriented as they navigate worlds beyond Earth.

Janna Kaplan, MS, is a senior research associate and lecturer in psychology at Brandeis University’s Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab, specializing in neuropsychology and space research.Since 1983, she has investigated how humans adapt to zero-G, high-G, artificial gravity, and other altered force environments, focusing on spatial orientation, movement control, and space motion sickness. Drawing on decades of human factors research in motion-rich and virtual environments, Kaplan also designs astronaut training protocols that prepare commercial and research crews for the sensorimotor challenges of suborbital, orbital, and planetary missions.

Joel Ventura is a senior research scientist at Brandeis University’s Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab, where he designs and builds experimental systems to study how humans stay oriented in unusual motion and gravity environments. Trained in physics at Carnegie Mellon and experimental psychology at Brandeis, he has engineered key apparatus for the lab’s 22-foot Slow Rotation Room and led hardware design on projects for partners such as the U.S. Navy, exploring sleep loss, balance, and motion sickness in operational settings. His research spans spatial orientation, sensorimotor adaptation, and visually induced self-motion, helping inform countermeasures that keep pilots, sailors, and future astronauts steady in motion-rich worlds.