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.
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BRNet 2026: Poster and Panel at the Body Representation Network Meeting
Patrick Oancia
2026/06/26
We presented a poster and participated in an early-career researcher panel at the 8th Annual Body Representation Network Meeting in Padova, Italy. This report covers the poster’s core findings, observations from the conference program, and reflections on where Baseworks sits within body representation research
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.
What You Can’t Feel, You Can’t Change: Body Awareness and the Perception Gap
Patrick Oancia
2026/03/31
Your capacity to act is bounded by your capacity to perceive. This article explores the perception gap in body awareness: why understanding a movement instruction is not the same as being able to act on it, and how sensory resolution develops through structured practice.
Dance and Altered States of Consciousness: A Conversation with Asia Shcherbakova
Patrick Oancia
2024/12/16
Asia Shcherbakova and Matan Levkowich discuss dance’s profound role in shaping human consciousness on the Material for The Brain podcast.