06 > 08.12.24
CN D Pantin
This training course for experts in AFCMD has two main focuses: to lay the theoretical and practical foundations for understanding themes that combine biomechanics and neuroscience, and to invite the group to experiment and exchange ideas on danced movement in a collective research dynamic. Initially, experiments supported by theory will be proposed to challenge our vision of the muscle, the notion of coordination and fluidity in movement, and to compare our views and areas of research on expert gesture. The remainder of the course will be based on exchanges around selected movements, and will cross-reference our readings of movement between perceptions and analyses of more quantifiable parameters. In this way, we will question the organization of movement from different points of view, enriching our understanding and reading of coordination.
Gilles Dietrich
A biomechanist by training, Gilles Dietrich is a professor at Université Paris-Cité, teaching biomechanics and movement neuroscience to STAPS students from bachelor to Master 2. He is also Deputy Director of the Institut des Sciences du Sport Santé in Paris. His research focuses on the body's motor skills and techniques, their learning and transmission. In particular, he is interested in the process of optimizing gesture and action, leading to motor expertise. This research is conducted within the framework of a functional analysis which assumes that the emergence of adapted motor behavior corresponds to the need for a match between action production and task constraints. This production of action, carried out by an “expert agent”, can be achieved by different strategies while satisfying the functional parameters of the task. On the other hand, he has been practicing and teaching martial arts for over 45 years (Aikido and Iaido) with the same approach of linking perceptive experience and scientific knowledge for the purposes of preserving health and performance (in the sense of producing effective, even efficient action).