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Jeanne de Salzmann (born Jeanne-Marie Allemand) often addressed as Madame de Salzmann (January 26, 1889,
She led the Gurdjieff Institute of Paris and continued Gurdjieff's teachings, emphasizing work with the movements, until she died, 101 years old, in 1990.
Jeanne de Salzmann played a major role in realizing the 1979 movie ''
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– May 24, 1990, Paris
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) was a French-Swiss
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dance teacher
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and a close pupil of the spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff.
Life
Jeanne de Salzmann was born Jeanne-Marie de Allemand, the daughter of the famous Swiss architect Jules Louis Allemand and of Marie Louise Matignon. Madame de Salzmann began her career at the Conservatory of Geneva, studying piano. Later a student ofÉmile Jaques-Dalcroze
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (6 July 1865 – 1 July 1950) was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to learning and experiencing music through movement. Dalcroze eurhythmics influenced Carl Or ...
in Germany from 1912, she taught dance and rhythmic movements. She met her husband Alexandre de Salzmann in Hellerau
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at Dalcroze's Institute. They married on September 6 in Geneva. With him she had a daughter, Nathalie de Salzmann (1919-2007). The First World War
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caused the closure of Dalcroze's Institute and Jeanne and her husband Alexandre moved to Tiflis
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, Georgia
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where she continued to teach.
In 1919, Thomas de Hartmann
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introduced the de Salzmanns to George Gurdjieff
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, a relationship that would last until Gurdjieff's death in 1949. She worked with Gurdjieff for nearly 30 years. De Salzmann was recognized as his deputy by many of Gurdjieff's other pupils. She was responsible for transmitting the movements
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and his teaching through the Gurdjieff Institute of Paris
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, the Gurdjieff Foundation
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of New York City
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, the Gurdjieff Society in London
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and the Fundación Gurdjieff of Caracas
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, which she founded or helped founding, as well as other formal and informal groups throughout the world.
She led the Gurdjieff Institute of Paris and continued Gurdjieff's teachings, emphasizing work with the movements, until she died, 101 years old, in 1990.
Jeanne de Salzmann played a major role in realizing the 1979 movie ''Meetings with Remarkable Men
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'' by Peter Brook
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.
She was buried at Cimetière de Plainpalais in Geneva.
After her death, her son Michel de Salzmann Michel de Salzmann (31 December 1923 in Paris – 4 August 2001 in Paris), son of Jeanne de Salzmann, was a psychiatrist, and the president of the Gurdjieff Foundation from 1990 until his death.
His friends and pupils salute him as one of the m ...
(1923–2001) took over the leadership of the organization and a book, ''The Reality of Being'', was made, faithful to the notebooks she kept for 40 years, witnessing her work and teaching after Gurdjieff died Jeanne de Salzmann, ''The Reality of Being - The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff'' (Shambala, Boston§London, 2010)
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