Gurdjieff-Movements - Konya Performance, 2013

[pwheatstraw]

The Konya Festival is dedicated to ancient and for the majority sacred traditions. It is a high level festival  and the most important one  for this area in the world today. Having been present this particular evening I have experienced the all envading silence, concentration and deep seriousness these Movements evoked in all those present, unifying performers and spectators in a unique bond. The word ‘entertainment’ couldn’t be farther removed from the truth shared during this performance. The short video selection is only a wittnes and hopefully an impulse to investigate this legacy of Gurdjieff further. What for some is ‘entertainment’ for others can be a revelation. 

[willieff]

Very neat the movements, we must to keep the tradition of the Gurdjieff movements teaching, it is good to see the Movements Foundation still doing the movements, to keep the legomonism.  

[pwheatstraw]

To qualify the participants of this performance as belonging to a 'cult' is untrue and, to be honest, ridiculous. The further remarks about the 'Fourth Way' are such that they do not deserve a serious answer.  

[davecacela]

p wheatstraw, Can you provide any information about the group presenting? Clearly they have put much time and effort into this work, so I'd like to know more about them. The quality of the presentation is among the cleanest I've ever seen. I'm also curious about the context of the presentation. Was it part of the annual Rumi remembrance festival in Konya? What sort of response from the general audience was evoked? Does the group presenting identify themselves, or GIG and his work, as part of a Sufi line?   

[merwynwestbroek]

If these dances are intended for the development of physical/body consciousness is it fitting to use them for entertaining purposes??