Results for: "Proprioception"
Asia Shcherbakova — article header image for The Triple Irony of Asking How Dancers Feel

The Triple Irony of Asking How Dancers Feel

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.

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Article banner reading Sensitivity as a Trainable Skill by Patrick Oancia, set against a soft-focus studio photograph of a Baseworks practice session.

Sensitivity as a Trainable Skill

Most physical practice is oriented outward — what the practice looks like, what it accomplishes. The internal experience of doing the movement is rarely on the curriculum. This article describes the skill of attending inward, beginning with muscular sensation at rest, and how that sensitivity carries into every domain that depends on noticing what isn’t asking to be noticed.

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drawing of a piano keyboard with the names of muscles on each key.

Muscle Key-Board

It’s a misconception that the motor cortex controls muscles like a keyboard. But in Baseworks practice, we are trying to use it more like a keyboard, making motor learning easier.

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Photo of Satoko Horie demonstrating a baseworks form with her hands and feet on the gorund and her pelvis lifted in the air.

Exploring Differing Base of Support

In this VS, we will pick up different forms/movements with differing Base of Support and look into how Baseworks utilizes the contact with the Base of Support to enhance stability and contribute to building strength.

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