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The 2014 First Edition - Book & FilmDVD
Note: for the planned 2018 second edition - see the news page |
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The Book - 'Gurdjieff's Movements - The Pattern of All and Everything' by Wim van Dullemen The Film - 'Gurdjieff's Movements - A Body Towards An Aim' by Amir Kaufmann
May 2015 Review by Paul Beekman Taylor [One of the very few last living pupils of Gurdjieff and now the most prominent scholar in this field, (A.K.)]
Dullemen, Wim Van. Gurdjieff’s Movements: The Pattern of “All and Everything.” Privately published, 2014. Wim van Dullemen’s detailed study of the history and form of “movements” is a welcome addition to the expanding coverage of the career and works of Georgii Ivanovich Gurdjieff. What is most satisfying in this work is Dullemen’s aligning of the music and dance with Gurdjieff’s writing. He reveals the extent to which Gurdjieff’s ideas are hidden in his art, a view that is attracting a good deal of attention by scholars of Gurdjieff’s work. It is easy enough, on gathers, to trace the importance of dance and music to Gurdjieff’s ballet “Struggle of the Magicians” but Dullemen traces Gurdjieff’s art in the three series of All and Everything as well. He reveals the relation of Gurdjieff’s “Constantinople Notes” to the development of the movements and sacred dances he elaborated subsequently in Germans and France. Dullemen traces carefully similar developments in the physical exercises of Jaques-Dalcroze and others. Most importantly, Dullemen recognizes the importance of number and number codes that conjoins the written work with the movements. There are tens of Gurdjieff’s groups that included the movements in their study of Gurdjieff’s work, and Dullemen emphasizes the responsibility of study groups to transfer Gurdjieff’s spiritual teaching to a person-to-person collaboration. The DVD of Dullemen explaining and illustrating the movements is elegant in its accurate simplicity. Overall, this work demands a significant place in the exposition of Gurdjieff’s genius. Paul Beekman Taylor, Author of six books on Gurdjieff, including G. I. Gurdjieff: A New Life (Utrecht, 2008).
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