Natsuko Koike

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About Natsuko Koike:

BASEWORKS Practice Certified Teacher | BT1 | BA in Journalism: American University | MA in Global Business Management: Fashion Institute of Technology

Natsuko is a BASEWORKS Practice Tier 1 Certified Teacher (BT1). Born in Tokyo, studied journalism during her time in University in America. Having worked in the Japanese advertising industry, Natsuko went back to America to complete her MA in fashion business. Since then, practice has been always a part of her daily life, regardless of her business in her marketing profession. Natsuko hopes to share and continue to explore how BASEWORKS Practice has opened her mind and supported her growth both at the studio and in her daily life.

EVENTS

October 10-November 29, 2026

Montreal Practice Sessions — Fall 2026

October 24/25 | 2026

Study Lab | Berlin

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PODCASTS

Baseworks Transmission episode artwork: a portrait of choreographer Catherine Gaudet, seated with her chin resting on her hand and smiling, beside the title On Ambiguity, Ritual, and What a Performance Does to an Audience, with the names Catherine Gaudet, Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova and Patrick Oancia and a blue soundwave along the bottom.

Catherine Gaudet: On Ambiguity, Ritual, and What a Performance Does to an Audience

2026/09/16

How a performance gets built to do something to a spectator: choreographer Catherine Gaudet talks

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Baseworks Transmission episode artwork: a portrait of Edward Clark with long grey hair, looking at the camera against a white background, beside the title On Tripsichore, Physical Theater, and the Emergence of Critical Practice, with the names Edward Clark and Patrick Oancia and a blue soundwave along the bottom.

Edward Clark: On Tripsichore, Physical Theater, and the Emergence of Critical Practice

2026/01/01

This episode explores the intersection of rigorous physical practice, critical thinking, and artistic expression—themes central

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ARTICLES

$Title card for the article, reading "If We Wrote About Vision the Way We Write About Proprioception" with the subtitle "A thought experiment about body awareness" and the byline "Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova", set over a dark olive-green illustration of two silhouetted figures facing each other across a plain, one dissolving into a cloud of dots and connecting lines streaming from its head, the other standing against a muted gold sun with pale fractured shapes across its body.$

If We Wrote About Vision the Way We Write About Proprioception

2026/09/22

We don’t talk about vision the way we talk about proprioception, as something you only

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Angine de Poitrine performing on stage in pyramid-shaped papier-mâché head costumes under gold stage lighting.

What’s Between the Notes

2026/07/07

An essay tracing one shift through cycling, skateboarding, music, and Baseworks practice: when effort or

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