What’s Between the Notes
Patrick Oancia
2026/07/07
An essay tracing one shift through cycling, skateboarding, music, and Baseworks practice: when effort or constraint quiets the obvious, finer perception comes out.
Results for: "Embodied Cognition"
The Triple Irony of Asking How Dancers Feel
Asia Shcherbakova
2026/05/19
When I searched for positive first-person accounts of sensorimotor experience, AI did better than the humans. That is the triple irony — and it says something uncomfortable about what happens when perceptual capacity becomes tribal identity.
When Bodies Think Like Neural Networks
Patrick Oancia
2025/10/08
Exploring movement learning through AI revealed something unexpected: the parallels run both ways, illuminating how embodied intelligence and machine learning emerge from the same patterns
Disembodied by Dance: When Art Hooks an Embodied Mind
Asia Shcherbakova
2024/11/26
Though dance is supposed to grow “embodiment,” can it lead to disembodied perceptual experience? Catherine Gaudet’s “Les jolies choses” is a mind-blowing piece designed to induce an altered state of consciousness…
Baseworks Movement Principles: Toronto
BASEWORKS
2024/03/05
This workshop will introduce a unique perspective on creativity and physical education. Participants will be introduced to the key concepts and principles of Baseworks, gain insights from our research, and learn practical strategies for understanding, performing, and teaching any aspect of physical movement.
Mobilizing the Spine
Satoko Horie
2022/12/14
In this VS, we will explore ways in which we can enhance the mobility of our spine and bring awareness to it.
Contemplative Practice: Dissecting the Process
Patrick Oancia
2022/08/24
This VS will focus on the Baseworks Ignition and Assimilation practices to prime and assess the finer qualities of the experience.
Pursuit for Fluidity and Grace in Movement
Satoko Horie
2022/08/10
In this VS, we dig into the concept of Connecting Strategy and uncover ways in which one can effectively and efficiently move better during one’s practice, both for the practice of Baseworks itself, as well as any other movement modalities.
The Mystery of Proprioceptive Awareness
Asia Shcherbakova
2022/02/24
Most people have felt a localized sensation in an active muscle—something neutral, immediate, and not pain. The scientific literature has no name for it, and no established conceptual category for it either. This article explores why this perceptual phenomenon falls through the cracks of neuroscience, what its most plausible neural substrate is, and what becomes possible when it’s deliberately cultivated.
Why you may want to commit
Patrick Oancia
2020/01/02
I see more and more people these days who jump from one thing to another without giving anything a more augmented try. It’s no surprise, given the plethora of choices and limited time. The irony is the more sensational or readily appealing and available something is, the faster people tend to both go for it, and before long, opt-out…..