عنوان

The Contemporary Context of Gurdjieff's Movements

شماره

LA125482

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Contemporary Context of Gurdjieff's Movements

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Carole M. Cusack

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The "sacred dances" or "Movements" were first revealed by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (c. 1866-1949) in 1919 in Tiflis (Tblisi), the site of the first foundation of his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. The proximate cause of this new teaching technique has been hypothesized to be Jeanne de Salzmann (1889-1990), an instructor of the Eurhythmics method of music education developed by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950). Jeanne and her husband Alexandre met at Jaques-Dalcroze's Institute at Hellerau in 1913, and became pupils of Gurdjieff in 1919. It was to her Dalcroze class that Gurdjieff first taught Movements. Esoteric systems of dance and musical education proliferated at the time. Gurdjieff was deeply interested in music, theater, and art. When Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky (1878-1947) met him in 1915 he spoke of dances he had seen in Eastern temples, and was working on a never-performed ballet, The Struggle of the Magicians. This article argues that body-based disciplines introduced by esoteric teachers with Theosophically-inflected systems are a significant phenomenon in the early twentieth century and that Gurdjieff's Movements, while distinct from other dance systems, emerged in the same esoteric melting-pot and manifest common features and themes with the esoteric dance of Rudolf Steiner, Rudolf von Laban, Peter Deunov, and others. The "sacred dances" or "Movements" were first revealed by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (c. 1866-1949) in 1919 in Tiflis (Tblisi), the site of the first foundation of his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. The proximate cause of this new teaching technique has been hypothesized to be Jeanne de Salzmann (1889-1990), an instructor of the Eurhythmics method of music education developed by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950). Jeanne and her husband Alexandre met at Jaques-Dalcroze's Institute at Hellerau in 1913, and became pupils of Gurdjieff in 1919. It was to her Dalcroze class that Gurdjieff first taught Movements. Esoteric systems of dance and musical education proliferated at the time. Gurdjieff was deeply interested in music, theater, and art. When Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky (1878-1947) met him in 1915 he spoke of dances he had seen in Eastern temples, and was working on a never-performed ballet, The Struggle of the Magicians. This article argues that body-based disciplines introduced by esoteric teachers with Theosophically-inflected systems are a significant phenomenon in the early twentieth century and that Gurdjieff's Movements, while distinct from other dance systems, emerged in the same esoteric melting-pot and manifest common features and themes with the esoteric dance of Rudolf Steiner, Rudolf von Laban, Peter Deunov, and others.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

96-122

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

21/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

Émile Jaques-Dalcroze

اصطلاح موضوعی

Eurhythmics

اصطلاح موضوعی

Eurythmy

اصطلاح موضوعی

G. I. Gurdjieff

اصطلاح موضوعی

Movement Choir

اصطلاح موضوعی

Movements

اصطلاح موضوعی

Paneurhythmy

اصطلاح موضوعی

Peter Deunov

اصطلاح موضوعی

Rudolf Steiner

اصطلاح موضوعی

Rudolf von Laban

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sergei Diaghilev

اصطلاح موضوعی

The Rite of Spring

اصطلاح موضوعی

Vaslav Nijinsky

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Carole M. Cusack

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685292-02101004

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y