About
An invitation to Collaborate/Invite
About
Rebecca-Sophia Strong is the author and visionary behind Cosmogenesis: The Story of Us®. She is an award-winning 360 filmmaker, trained psychotherapist in private practice, and an independent playwright, screenwriter, and media artist whose work bridges cosmology, performance, media art, and education.
Chosen for her visionary storytelling and artistic excellence, Strong’s work integrates contemporary science with embodied performance to create accessible, transformative learning experiences. In response to growing cultural disconnection among young people, she developed Cosmogenesis as both a fulldome stage–film experience and a 15-part Embodied Cosmology® non-formal science curriculum exploring the 13.8-billion-year story of the universe as a living context for hope, responsibility, and creativity.
Strong is a TEDx speaker, a MacArthur Fellow nominee, and has collaborated with institutions including the University of Colorado Boulder, Fiske Planetarium, Ithaca College, the University of Minnesota, and the WILD Foundation. Her work sits at the intersection of art, science, education, and wellbeing, offering participatory narratives for a time of global transition.
When not creating, she is often dancing, swimming, or exploring landscapes that keep her work grounded in lived experience.
My Personal Statement
An Invitation to Epic Collaboration
Do Epic Sh*t isn’t a slogan for me — it’s a practice.
Cosmogenesis: The Story of Us® represents a pivotal moment in my artistic and academic trajectory: a work where vision, rigor, and public engagement converge. As an immersive, interdisciplinary project, Cosmogenesis is designed not only as a singular creative achievement, but as a living platform - one capable of traveling, evolving, and catalyzing new forms of collaboration across science, the humanities, education, and immersive media.
My intention is for Cosmogenesis to be produced in planetaria nationally and internationally, serving as a replicable model for integrating cosmology, embodiment, performance, imagination, and participatory storytelling. This expansion is not about scale for its own sake, but about meeting a genuine cultural need: the hunger for narratives that restore meaning, belonging, and ethical imagination in a time marked by fragmentation, ecological uncertainty, and a crisis of meaning.
The project also forms the foundation of my proposed doctoral research. Through Cosmogenesis, I am developing a practice-based inquiry at the intersection of art, science, critical media, and social impact - investigating how immersive, embodied storytelling can function as a cultural intervention supporting wellbeing, relational awareness, and planetary responsibility.
Alongside the performance and film work, I have authored a 15-part curriculum rooted in the same material, which formalizes Embodied Cosmology® - a philosophy and method I have been developing since 2006. Embodied Cosmology® translates cosmological understanding into lived, somatic experience, inviting participants to encounter the 13.8-billion-year story not as distant information, but as a participatory context for identity, mental health, creativity, and care. Through this approach, cosmology becomes not only something we learn about, but something functional - a functional cosmology - that we experience, reflect upon, nurture, and integrate into how we live, relate and create.
Together, these strands - performance, film, curriculum, and research - form a coherent ecosystem. Cosmogenesis is not a side project or a single output; it is the cornerstone of a longer arc of scholarship and creative work committed to reimagining how knowledge and creativity is made, shared, and embodied in the 21st century. The work offers a model for cultural revitalization through art and education, positioning theatre, immersive media, and participatory learning as vital sites for collective reflection, renewal and flourishing.
This is an invitation to collaborate on work that is epic, ambitious, grounded, and alive - work that takes seriously the role of art, science, and education in shaping how we understand ourselves, one another, and the unfolding universe and flourishing future to which we belong.
Collaborate / Invite
I welcome inquiries from planetariums, universities, theatres, cultural institutions, and interdisciplinary collaborators interested in teaching, immersive performance, practice-as-research, or institutional partnership.
If you’re exploring ways to engage audiences or students through Embodied Cosmology® or to bring Cosmogenesis: The Story of Us® to your institution, I’d be glad to connect. My work supports participatory approaches to cosmology, meaning-making, wellbeing, and cultural renewal through immersive media, performance, and curriculum.
Contact:
movementasmedicine@gmail.com
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Photo Credit: Doug Ellis Photography.
