HOME Learn Gurdjieff Dance Learn Gurdjieff Exercises Versione Italiana Last Updated June 6, 2009	NOT ALL ASSOCIATES ARE LISTED HERE contact us for a complete list Ugo Bonessi Susanne Clemens Vivien Engelberg Margaret Monsour Chiara Purcaro Stefano Trevisi James Tomarelli   Ugo Bonessi is a musician and teacher of music who took his degree in piano with Maestro Fausto Di Cesare. He attended DAMS of the University of Bologna and has been present on the Rome music scene for many years. A frequent traveler to India, he has studied the classical singing traditions of khyal and dhrupad. He has also studied harmonic voice techniques with David Hykes. He has been interested in Gurdjieff's music since 1987 and has worked professionally with James Tomarelli and Gruppo If since 2002. The dancer and ballet pedagogue Susanne Clemens has been teaching Holistic Dance and Moving Art for more than 20 years. In 1994 she created the Sanatando Method. She is a dance and movement therapist and a certified teacher of the Lichtenberg Institute for Applied Physiology of the Voice. Based upon this knowledge and her experience as student of the Gurdjieff Work she developed "Sensory Movement Experience & Sensory Dance." Deepening and continuously developing this idea is a central part of her research work. Her husband Richard Clemens and Susanne lead an Academy of Holistic Astrology which combines holistic astrology with the Gurdjieff Work. They founded a community with others and live in a seminar house - "Haus Sonnentanz" - in Singhofen, Germany. Contact Susanne: email, phone: +49 2604 95 43 37 Vivien Engelberg, MBA Business Administration, first encountered the Gurdjieff work in 1971 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she joined a Gurdjieff Foundation group affiliated with Madame de Salzman in Paris. She started her work with the Movements and Sacred Dances in 1972 in Boston, met J. G. Bennett and enrolled at his International Academy for Comparative Studies in Sherborne, England 1974-75. In 1976, at Sherborne, she worked with the J.G. Bennett tape legacy and assisted the teaching of women's movements. She became interested in Buddhism along with the Fourth Way and studied with Bhante Dharmawara, Sogyal Rimpoche, Trungpa, Thich Naht Hahn, and others. She has also explored the work of A.H. Almaas. Margaret Monsour, graduated in 1991 with a MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, and has been a student of the piano since childhood. Since 1996 she has accompanied for movements classes in Santa Fe and at the Gavilan Ranch Movements Intensives. Margaret is a practicing folk artist and lives in Santa Fe. Chiara Purcaro is a pre- and post-natal educator. In 1999 she founded the Spazio Nascita Cultural Association, where she leads maternity courses through movement and bodywork for women and couples and offers post partum assistance and support. Her formal education includes bodywork, contemporary dance, and psychomotor practice according to the method developed by Prof. B. Aucouturier at the I.F.R.A. in Bologna. Chiara is a certified "Antiginnastica praticenne" in the Thérèse Bertherat method at the ongoing education school for praticennes in Anti-exercise in Paris. Through training and personal search she has developed a particular methodology, which has been further influenced by contact with F.Leboyer, M.Odent, North American medicine women, and empirical obstetricians. Since early 2003 she has undergone intensive training in Gurdjieff Dance and Body-Mind Research with James Tomarelli. Chiara Purcaro is a founding member of Gruppo If and a student in the Gurdjieff-Bennett Tradition. Stefano Trevisi took his degree in piano at the Benedetto Marcello Music Conservatory in Venice while also studying Choral Music, Choral Conducting and Sacred Liturgy. He majored in Gregorian Chant and Sacred Musicology and he's graduating in Medieval and Humanist Philology. A student of Chant in different religious experiences, he cooperates regularly with the specialised press, and facilitates workshops in the dynamic aspects of liturgical rites. He regularly gives concerts, mainly with chamber music ensembles. In 2007 he founded the choral Ensemble “ Ad Oriente ”, which retrieves the vocal and bodily sacred music repertoire of the origins, and for which he has transcribed traditional eastern and contemporary sacred music. He teaches Piano, Sacred Musicology and Anthropology of Sacred and Liturgical Chant at the Diocesan Sacred Music Institute of Treviso.   James Tomarelli has university degrees in physics & psychology and is a practicing student of the Gurdjieff-Bennett Tradition since 1967 and is solely responsible for the contents of this web site. In the early 1970s, James studied with Robert de Ropp in the USA (author of "The Master Game") and John Bennett in England (author of Transformation, Creative Thinking, and Spiritual Psychology) where he began study and practice of Gurdjieff Dance and Movement Meditation and the Gurdjieff-Bennett Inner Exercises. Since 1984, James has directed seminars and guided group work in America and Europe. Practically interested in the cognitive sciences, empirical mysticism, and psychological intervention, he is researching the role of active attention in the work of human transformation. Along with ongoing research into the methods of Gurdjieff and Bennett, James, for eight years, studied Sufism under the guidance of the late Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (a twentieth century Sufi mystic from Sri Lanka) and, since 1994, has been meditating in the Buddhist Vipassana Tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. When not in Italy teaching and leading seminars, James lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his Italian wife and two sons, where he manages Bennett Books Publishing. AboutDance † AboutExercises † Associates † Schedule † Contact † Home ©2009 GurdjieffMovements.com. All rights reserved.