The Gurdjieff movements is a series of sacred dances that were collected or authored by G. I. Gurdjieff and taught to his students as part of the work of self-observation and self-study.
Gurdjieff taught that the movements were not merely calisthenics, exercises in concentration, and displays of bodily coordination and aesthetic sensibility: on the contrary, in the movements was embedded real, concrete knowledge, passed from generation to generation of initiates – each posture and gesture representing some cosmic truth that the informed observer could read like a book.
Gurdjieff created about 250 Movements or dances, some of them coming from seeing them preformed in Sufi, Tibetan, Buddhist, or esoteric traditions, in Central Asia, Tibet, Egypt, Middle East; some of them created by Gurdjieff himself on a music composed by Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann.
A brief glimpse of the dances appears at the very end of the motion picture about Gurdjieff, Meetings with Remarkable Men, produced and directed in 1978 by Peter Brook.
Gurdjieff Movements Haarlem 