Le travail de yoga en cours de danse contemporaine. Analyse anthropologique de l'expérience corporelle.

摘要

This research focuses on the work of yoga, as taught to amateur adult pupils in the context of the contemporary dance teaching of Toni D'Amelio, at the Peter Goss school in Paris. It is the nature of this corporeal experience as lived by the pupils, as well as the modes of its construction, which form the subject of this analysis. Grounded in an anthropological approach, this analysis is characterized by the use of the explicitation interview to investigate the subjective experience of the pupils.The central role of the teacher's instructions emerged from the pupils' own words, as well as the way this yoga work is articulated around a scholarly "apparatus", which crystallizes for the pupils the idea of an adequate knowledge. However, this "apparatus" proved insufficient to explain the nature of the corporeal experience it produces. The study thus underscores the way this "apparatus" is brought into play and the way the instructions function as triggers for action and perception. Finally, this analysis demonstrates how the speech act of the teacher, without either the pupils' or her own knowledge, creates a real enchantment of the "apparatus".