You could imagine that escaping gravity would be a dancer’s dream, or at least a flight of fancy. Well, dancers with the Gravity Zero project are getting the chance to whirl about without the bonds that keep us tethered to the ground. It is for the benefit of science, an initiative to study the difference in dancers’ control of their limbs and posture. Parabolic flights take the subjects through minutes of zero gravity while transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) measures how the messages of movement are transmitted through the subjects’ muscles. This information will help patients recovering from neurotrauma and also astronauts who have to live in zero-G for extended periods.