La danse ou la conscience du vivant : comparaisons historiques et culturelles sur les discours et les techniques de la danse

The dance or the consciousness of the living historical and cultural comparison of the discourse and techniques of the dance

• Auteur / Autrice : Thilda Herbillon-Moubayed
• Direction : Georges Vigarello
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Sciences de l'éducation
• Date : Soutenance en 1988
• Etablissement(s) : Paris 8

Résumé

Cette etude menee a partir d'une approche descriptive et analytique du discours technique de la danse aura pour objet de relever certaines constatations relatives aux differents etats de conscience des differents regions corporelles. Le corps comme nous allons pouvoir l'observer ne constitue pas une entite indissociable obeissant a la meme organisation relationnelle avec l'environnement ambiant. Le corps comportera ainsi, d'une part, des zones activees par une relation reelle avec son environnement geo-culturel qui seront tributaires de possibilites motrices organisees, s'exprimant par des manifestations corporelles de type adaptateur ou createur, et d'autre part, des zones entretenues par une relation fantasmatique qui seront tributaires d'une motricite de type anarchique desordonne s'exprimant par des manifestations corporelles de type agitatif ou statique ( transe , extase). Nous appellerons les premieres "regions corporelles conscientisees" et les deuxiemes "regions corporelles non-conscientisees"

This study has been carried out through a descriptive and analytical approach on the technical discourse of dancing. Some observations relative to the different states of consciousness and to the different parts of the body will be made with reference to dancing. The body is not considered as only one entity but is directly related to its immediate environment as this study will point out. Two different types of behaviour are noticed in the different parts of the body. On the one hand some parts of the body have an active relationship with one's "geocultural" environment, this organizes the movements either into adaptation or creativity. On the other hand some parts of the body entertained by a relationship based on fantasy react in an anarchical and disorganized manners, this provokes wild bodily agitation or complete immobility (trance , ecstasy). The former body parts are being referred to as those parts of the body of which one is conscious, and the later body parts are being referred to as those parts of the body of which one is unconscious