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So what does FORM mean?

We always try to clarify what the purpose of our form practice is in Baseworks.

In this TRANSMISSION Quest 4 episode, @patrickoancia highlights how the continuity of form practice can lead to a better understanding of movement all around.

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This Quest 4 was recorded on March 3, 2022

Concept & Visuals: Asia Shcherbakova
Narration & Audio Production: @patrickoancia
Music: @llennox_noj
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Asia Shcherbakova is presenting at SCAPPS 2026, the conference of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology, in Ottawa this week.

The presentation is about sensing as a skill. When an instructor says "bring the arms to shoulder height," the learner has to be able to feel whether they did. That ability varies widely from person to person, and it develops with practice.

Asia's research draws on ten years of refining the Baseworks Method with more than 10,000 learners. It identifies three types of body awareness: proprioceptive, spatial and interoceptive. In all three, telling sensations apart comes first. Relating to them, and using them to adjust behavior, follow from that.

For movement education, this means teaching people to perceive is part of teaching the movement.

Visit our website for details.

#baseworks_method #baseworks_sense_control_adapt #baseworks_PQ #baseworks_physical_intelligence #baseworks_approach #baseworks_framework #SCAPPS2026 #motorlearning #sensorimotorlearning #proprioceptiveawareness #interoceptiveawareness #movementeducation by @baseworkslife

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Picture a world where people have the same eyes we do, but vision is only ever used to find the door and avoid walking into walls. That world's health press writes about vision the way ours writes about proprioception: decline after 40, a thirty-second daily exercise, fewer collisions with furniture. Anything more refined is left to specialists. Asia Shcherbakova's new essay opens with this thought experiment.

The peice looks at why some senses get a shared vocabulary and others don't, and at how a sensation can be shared when there's nothing to point at together.

Link in bio for the full article.

Also in Montreal:

-Open Day, Saturday, September 26, 9:30 AM to noon. A guided practice session, then a closer look at a few of the forms. Advance booking only.
-Fall Practice Sessions, Saturday mornings in October and November. Guided practice for Baseworks alumni and people who already work seriously with their body.

Both held at @proto_studio_ in Mile End. Details in bio.

Cover photo by Andrei Fantana.

#baseworks_method #baseworks_sense_control_adapt #baseworks_PQ #baseworks_physical_intelligence #baseworks_approach #baseworks_framework #proprioceptiveawareness #bodyawareness #sensorimotorlearning #MovementEducation

Music created in collaboration with ElevenLabs by @baseworkslife

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La chorégraphe @catherinegaudet_mtl explique comment elle évalue une pièce pendant la création : elle observe sa propre attention. Pour elle, la dramaturgie, c'est la tension que le rythme, l'espace, le temps et le corps maintiennent du début à la fin du spectacle.

Extrait de l'épisode Baseworks Transmission enregistré à @espacelibre avec Asia Shcherbakova et Patrick Oancia. L'épisode complet est disponible en vidéo et en audio, avec sous-titres en français, en anglais et en japonais : lien dans la bio.

Prochaine création de @compagniecatherinegaudet : Hors-d'œuvre, solo avec @jjphillips1981, au @la_chapelle_sc, du 23 au 26 septembre. Billets : lien dans la bio de @compagniecatherinegaudet.

Baseworks à Montréal, au @proto_studio_, Mile End : Open Day le 26 septembre, puis les Practice Sessions d'automne, huit samedis du 3 octobre au 21 novembre. Détails et inscription : lien dans la bio de @baseworkslife.

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Choreographer @catherinegaudet_mtl describes how she evaluates a piece while she is making it: she watches her own attention. For her, dramaturgy is the tension that rhythm, space, time and the body hold from the beginning of a performance to the end.

From the Baseworks Transmission episode recorded at @espacelibre with Asia Shcherbakova and @patrickoancia. The full episode is available to watch and listen to, with subtitles in English, French and Japanese: link in bio.

Her company's next piece: Hors-d'œuvre, a solo with @jjphillips1981, at @la_chapelle_sc, September 23 to 26. Tickets: link in @compagniecatherinegaudet bio.

Baseworks in Montreal, at @proto_studio_, Mile End: Open Day on September 26, then the Fall Practice Sessions, eight Saturdays from October 3 to November 21. Details and registration: link in @baseworkslife bio.

#catherinegaudet #baseworks_transmission #baseworks_method #baseworks_sense_control_adapt #dansecontemporaine #contemporarydance #embodiedcognition #perception #dramaturgy

Music created in collaboration with ElevenLabs taken in Espace Libre by @baseworkslife

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Portes ouvertes Montréal [English follows]
La pratique comme investigation

Le samedi 26 septembre, au @proto_studio_ dans le Mile End. La matinée commence par une séance de pratique guidée de 70 minutes, dans le format des Practice Sessions d'automne. Après une pause thé, nous reprenons quelques formes comme tâches perceptives.

Chaque forme est une question ouverte sur votre façon de bouger.

Proto Studio est un espace d'exploration créative et de recherche, où nos Practice Sessions d'automne commencent la semaine suivante.

La matinée se termine par une période de questions avec Patrick Oancia, fondateur du Baseworks Method, et Asia Shcherbakova, neuroscientifique et directrice de la recherche.

Ouvert à tous, sans expérience préalable. Séance en anglais.

26 septembre | 9 h 30 à 12 h

Lien dans la bio de @baseworkslife pour les détails et l'inscription.

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Open Day Montreal: Practice as an investigation

Saturday, September 26, at @proto_studio_ in Mile End. The morning starts with a 70-minute guided practice session in the Fall Practice Sessions format. After a tea break, we return to a few forms as perceptual tasks.

Every form is an open question about how you move.

Proto Studio is a space for creative exploration and research, and where our Fall Practice Sessions start the following week.

The morning ends with Q&A with Patrick Oancia, founder of the Baseworks Method, and Asia Shcherbakova, neuroscientist and director of research.

Open to everyone, no prior experience needed. Session in English.

September 26 | 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Link in @baseworkslife bio for event details and registration.

#baseworks_method #baseworks_sense_control_adapt #baseworks_PQ #baseworks_physical_intelligence #baseworks_approach #baseworks_framework #MovementEducation #bodyawareness by @baseworkslife

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Catherine Gaudet (@catherinegaudet_mtl, @compagniecatherinegaudet) construit ses pièces pour laisser le spectateur avec un problème à résoudre. L'idée a été développée dans son mémoire de maîtrise, L'ambiguïté comme vecteur de sensation, et guide son travail depuis. Chaque pièce tire plusieurs lignes de sens à la fois. En studio, elle travaille avec ses interprètes par des forces et des images jusqu'à une entente presque télépathique, et reste spectatrice de son propre travail.
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Filmé le 3 septembre à Espace Libre (@espacelibre), le nouvel épisode du podcast Baseworks Transmission porte sur le rituel, la fatigue, le deuxième souffle et ce que la performance fait à un public sans que cela s'explique.
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L'épisode sort cette semaine, si tout va bien.
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Prochaine création de la compagnie : Hors-d'œuvre, solo avec James Phillips (@jjphillips1981), Théâtre La Chapelle (@la_chapelle_sc), 23 au 26 septembre. Billets : lien dans la bio de @compagniecatherinegaudet.
Baseworks Open Day Montréal, Proto Studio (@proto_studio_), 26 septembre, 9h30 : lien dans la bio de @baseworkslife
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Catherine Gaudet builds her pieces to leave the spectator with a problem to solve. The idea was developed in her master's thesis, Ambiguity as a Vector of Sensation, and has guided her work since. Each piece draws several lines of meaning at once. In the studio she works with her dancers through forces and images toward an almost telepathic understanding, and remains a spectator of her own work.
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Filmed September 3 at Espace Libre, the newest Baseworks Transmission podcast episode covers ritual, fatigue, a second wind, and what performance does to an audience that cannot be explained.
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The episode is due out this week, fingers crossed.
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Her company's next piece: Hors-d'œuvre, a solo with James Phillips, Théâtre La Chapelle, September 23 to 26. Tickets: link in the company bio.
Baseworks Open Day Montreal, Proto Studio, from 9:30am, September 26: link in our bio.
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Photos: Andrew Miller (@awesomephotography.ca)
#catherinegaudet #baseworks_transmission #baseworks_sense_control_adapt #dansecontemporaine #embodiedcognition #contemporarydance #perception #ritual taken in Espace Libre by @baseworkslife

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Ask a room of healthy adults what a muscle feels like at rest, when nothing is happening to it. In our survey, fewer than half reported feeling anything at all.
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That finding was part of the poster Baseworks brought to the 8th Body Representation Network Meeting in Padova this June. Asia Shcherbakova presented a framework built from close to ten years of movement data, drawn from more than 10,000 learners: three trainable components of how the brain represents the body. Each has its own failure pattern and its own way of being trained. On the second day, she joined the panel for early-career researchers.
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@bodyrepnetwork, connects researchers across neuroscience, clinical work, and psychology working on body representation: what it's made of, how it's measured, and what changes it. Its annual meeting brings that community into one room. Those are also the questions Baseworks is built on, approached through structured practice.
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On the first day, the meeting was held in the University of Padova's Palazzo del Bo. It houses the world's first permanent anatomical theatre.
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Link in bio for the full recap.
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This fall in Montreal: an Introductory Open Day on September 26 and the Fall Practice Sessions semester: October through November @proto_studio_. Link in bio for details.
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3 months ago

@anginedepoitrine play inside full papier-mâché heads. Nobody in the crowd knows who they are. This summer about seventy thousand people came to their free Montreal Jazz Festival show anyway.
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The costumes began as a joke on their hometown crowd. Then the band noticed the masks did something they hadn't planned: with their heads covered they can't see well, so they play by feel, moving between the notes on muscle memory. A constraint they never asked for changed how they play.
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The new essay from @patrickoancia starts from moments like that and traces one shift through his own history. Long rides where, at full effort, the texture of the road and the changing light came forward. A skateboard that began to feel like part of the body. A stage where the rehearsed parts fell away and what was left was the song.
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From there the essay moves into music, where @jacobcollier explains one chord until it becomes a place with a pull toward somewhere else.
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Something loud quiets, and something finer comes forward. The essay is about learning to notice that shift, and what opens when you stay with it. The body is the one place that never switches off, which is where a Baseworks practice does its work.
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Link in bio for the full essay.
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This fall in Montreal: an Introductory Open Day on September 26 and the Fall Practice Sessions semester: October through November @proto_studio_. Details at the link in bio.
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#baseworks_method #baseworks_sense_control_adapt #baseworks_PQ #baseworks_physical_intelligence #baseworks_approach #baseworks_framework #bodyawareness #MovementEducation #PhysicalPractice #proprioceptiveawareness #embodiedintelligence by @baseworkslife

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Try Googling "how do dancers experience their body."
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What you'll find is body image, eating disorders, and identity — almost nothing about what it actually feels like.
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Where did the phenomenology go?
And why is AI better at describing what a trained body feels like than the people who actually have one?
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In her new article on the Baseworks Blog, Asia Shcherbakova highlights how perceptual depth becomes a status marker and why having a body might be the very thing that blocks us from talking about it. Link in bio.
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#baseworks_method #baseworks_sense_control_adapt #baseworks_PQ #baseworks_physical_intelligence #baseworks_approach #baseworks_framework #bodyawareness #proprioceptiveawareness #sensorimotorlearning #MovementEducation #embodiedintelligence #PhysicalPractice by @baseworkslife

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On June 8–9, Baseworks presents at BRNet in Padova, Italy. BRNet is the Body Representation Network, an international research conference on how the brain constructs and maintains a sense of the body. This year's theme is "The Uncanny Body."
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Asia Shcherbakova's presentation: "Three Trainable Components of Body Representation: Evidence from a Decade of Naturalistic Perceptual Skills Training."
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The conference draws researchers working across clinical and neurological body representation science. Our presentation asks what limits body representation in healthy individuals, and what changes with structured practice.
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Three components with distinct neural substrates and distinct training approaches: proprioceptive awareness, spatial awareness, and interoceptive awareness. Ten years of naturalistic data. Link in bio for details on the presentation and conference.
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#baseworks_method #baseworks_sense_control_adapt #baseworks_PQ #baseworks_physical_intelligence #baseworks_approach #baseworks_framework #bodyawareness #proprioceptiveawareness #interoceptiveawareness #neuroscience #sensorimotorlearning #MovementEducation Poster with event details and person in yoga pose with abstract background. by @baseworkslife

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What does a muscle feel like from the inside when nothing is happening to it? Not sore, not stretched, not burning from effort. Just at rest.
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For most people, the honest answer is nothing. The signal isn't absent. The attention to detect it hasn't been built.
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Most physical practice is oriented to what it looks like, because that's what can be photographed. Inner attention doesn't show up in a photo. @patrickoancia’s new article is about what develops when attention has somewhere to show up: a finer-grained capacity to detect internal sensations and hold attention on them long enough for something to register. The capacity carries. A coder catches the inconsistency in a passage that didn't look like it needed a second read. A teacher notices which child has gone quiet. A forester picks up the early signs of a tree under stress. The same underlying skill. Article Link in bio.
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#baseworks_method #baseworks_sense_control_adapt #baseworks_PQ #baseworks_physical_intelligence #baseworks_approach #baseworks_framework #proprioceptiveawareness #interoceptiveawareness #bodyawareness #sensorimotorlearning #MovementEducation #PhysicalPractice #neuroscience #awareness Photos: Andrew Miller @awesomephotography.ca by @baseworkslife

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On May 11 in Montreal, Ksenia Shcherbakova returns this year to present current Baseworks research at the 27th Annual Neuropsychology Day and Brenda Milner Lecture, hosted at @theneuro_mni, the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University.
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Her presenation is titled "Predictable Failure Patterns in Non-Habitual Movement: Evidence for Undertrained Degrees-of-Freedom Control." It documents a class of predictable failure patterns in healthy adults, where movement coordination breaks down in specific non-habitual tasks regardless of general physical background, and points to a central process that appears systematically undertrained in the adult population.
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Ksenia presents from 2:30 to 3:45 PM. The event runs 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM. Free and open to the public.
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Link in bio for event details and registration.
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#baseworks_method #baseworks_sense_control_adapt #baseworks_PQ #baseworks_physical_intelligence #baseworks_approach #baseworks_framework #Neuroscience #Neuropsychology #MotorControl #sensorimotorlearning #proprioceptiveawareness #neuroplasticity #Montreal #McGillUniversity #TheNeuro Photos: Andrew Miller @awesomephotography.ca by @baseworkslife

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