"It is necessary that you observe yourself in a different way from the way you do in your daily life. It is necessary to have a different attitude, not the one that you have had until now. You know where your attitudes have taken you until now. It does not make sense to continue to do so. I do not have any desire to work with you if you remain as you are now. You want knowledge, but what you have obtained until now was not knowledge. It was only a mechanical collection of information. It is knowledge outside you, not inside. It does not have value. What is important for you is that somebody has created what you know previously? You have not created it, so this knowledge is of little value."

                                                          -Gurdjieff-

   For many, the first impression of the Movements can be like a revelation, because they are something totally different from what they might be seen in the world of dance. In accordance with one of the Gurdjieff 's explanations, the objective of the dances is to achieve the harmonious development of the human being through combining the mind and the feelings with the movements of the body, manifesting them together. This is a development that can never happen mechanically, by accident or by itself and encourages the development of something which incorporates the whole being, the human being in his totality: mind-body-emotion.

   The execution of Gurdjieff´s Dances is a test that does not allow fraud. Position and movement become something aware. Through a firm and balanced position, presence remains without tension or unnecessary wasted energy. There must be exactitude in the gesture, obedience to the rhythm, absolute order governing the rows and colums of the dancers and unanimity of movement. The slightest lack of attention can make us lose all the work. The dancer must have a deep, relaxed, maintained and renewed attention. One must feel the position, have an alive impression of it; the position must be correct and pure, trying to extend direct contact between will and body while one executes the transition of the positions. This sensitivity is not developed just by itself but what is necessary is that the participant has an outer attitude that corresponds with the inner attitude. The aim is that an abstraction from the ideas´ association that absorbs and divides our attention takes place, so that the centers do not have freedom to evolve wrongly.

   At first, what we discover is that we are more prisoners of the automatism than we thought, simultaneously we feel a strange sensation of constriction and freedom. We must let go of the state of tension that can appear in anyone of its forms: excess of will, agitation of the mind, desire of results or any type of fear. Anyone of these tensions can prevent the free flow of gesture and the movement within its own rhythm, thus altering its expression or manifestation and the meaning of the dance. Only by leaving behind the tensions, in a state of letting-go, can we open ourselves to another force of attraction and we set ourselves free enabling the inner to act. The body relaxes completely and begins to participate more freely. A new intelligence accompanies the movement and the flow appears. It is at that moment when we approach the exact doing which Gurdjieff spoke of, the real movement, the fundamental experience of a higher attention than the ordinary one and that, perhaps, we have not experienced before.

   The Movements demand our being in different ways and this explains their amazing diversity. Some movements look for the mastery of the body through the rhythm and the intensity, which involves an attention consciously controlled and more "masculine" in their expression. Others require more smoothness and a more "feminine" expression, raising us beyond the human condition through beauty in gestures of deep meaning. The intention is not to satisfy an aesthetic sense, even though they do, yet to wake up latent energies with the aid of appropriate positions. The dance practiced with this intention has a different meaning completely, so we become an instrument of universal energy.