Jeannette Dumeix guides a set of subtle movements for lower back pain in the Feldenkrais method. And I sit at the radio table that has just been installed at P.P.O.W. gallery and read from Irene Dowd’s teaching notes comparing the changing relationship of a teacher and a student to the developing anatomy of an eye in a human embryo. AIRHEAD at P.P.O.W. Gallery

The listener is addressed, in French. Leads without example in real time. She doesn’t move while the listener moves. 

-Instructing a sequence with a purpose  

-Teaching is warm, a song to be heard if not followed. 

-There is no correcting, no wrong way of following, the instructor cedes control 

-Gentle, certain, not overly encouraging, personal but understanding the limits of being able to personalize address

-The time of learning is a lullaby for dreaming or waking 

MISS OTHMAR is the name of that teacher of Charlie Brown’s that’s heard and never seen. Her voice carries no words and transmits no facts. Her professing is an undulating song. Nevertheless C.B. and his classmates seem to follow along.

MISS OTHMAR is teaching over radio. MISS OTHMAR’s Meetings with Teachers is a series that collects the voices of different teachers and facilitators from a variety of fields and their approaches to leading the listener through exercises over radio.

https://missothmarschoolforteachers.info/

Jeannette Dumeix is a dancer, choreographer, and Feldenkrais practitioner. In 1983, she created ARTEFACT with Marc Vincent, a dance group and research lab that created more than 20 choreographic pieces and was active till 2003. In 2002, she directed the film Lexique Dansé (Dance Glossary) and then in 2004 founded Artefact-labo, a structure intended to question dance work of dance and its reception through creative documentation. Dumeix has been particularly interested in the writing and recording of movement, its observation and the richness of the languages of the body and space. She was Susan Buirge's assistant from 1978 to 1982. 

During a creative residency she discovered the Feldenkrais method when she met the enthusiastic practitioner, Claude Espinassier. A few years later, she enrolled in professional training organized by Accord Mobile, under the direction of Myriam Pfeffer, and has been teaching. Learning the Feldenkrais method is not only an extraordinary indicator of movement's potential but also a formidable path towards autonomy; this is what drives her teaching. http://collectif-feldenkrais.fr/

Timmy Simonds is an artist interested in the ways we perceive education and our expectations of the teacher cross culturally. He broadcasts regularly with Montez Press Radio and Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM.