EmbodiLab FSMP Application
EmbodiLab is part of the Faculty Student Mentoring Program (FSMP) at SDSU. The mission of FSMP is to support student engagement and development through undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative initiatives.

Participation in this program is highly selective. Student protégés work closely with Jessica Humphrey, Professor of Dance to develop skills in the application of somatic and contemplative techniques to collaborative performance-making with a focus on the relationship between artistic performance, mental health, healing, and human development using methods from Practice-as-Research in the arts. Students selected for the program get the opportunity to:

Care, Collaborate, Create, Communicate
  • Gain research experience in embodied and performing arts
  • Become more familiar with experimental approaches to embodied art and performance-making through the practice of contact improvisation
  • Identify and implement basic health-promoting practices that support your body-mind in your artistic work
  • Track the healing possibilities in the process of preparing for and staying present throughout the creative process and during performance
  • Learn techniques for deepening self and relational awareness in and through the group meditations, flow states, and creative process including those used in Portal, a binational dance collaboration directed by Jessica
  • Collaborate with art students who are serious about their training but still know how to play within the creative process
  • Learn Robin Nelson's model for Practice-as-Research in the arts
  • Develop intentional relationships with social media platforms to share the riches of the creative process
  • Perform/present works-in-progress alongside SDSU faculty, alumni, and local professionals in The Undone Show at the end of the Fall semester
  • Create presentations for SDSU's S3 Student Symposium
  • Prepare for graduate education in any subject
  • Build your graduate school application or résumé
  • Get three elective credit hours toward graduation per semester (highly recommended)
Students work with Jess by both attending weekly practice sessions in the studio (EmbodiLab, which may include artists from the larger San Diego Community), working independently, and meeting with her in office hours as needed.

You must notify Jess that you have completed this application by emailing her at jhumphrey@sdsu.edu.

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Don't forget to Jessica an email at jhumphrey@sdsu.edu as soon as you finish this application!  *
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RED ID *
Are you Pell Grant Eligible? If you don't know, be sure to contact the Financial Aid office to find out so you can complete this question. *
What is your major?  *
What is most interesting to you about the lines of research outlined above?  *
Are you able and willing to determine when you need support for your mental health outside your artmaking practices?  *
Do you have the capacity to engage as a mentee beyond your regularly scheduled coursework?  *
Are you committed to learning more about collaboration and all its complexities?  *
Contact improvisation, a touch-based form, will be central to our practice. Are you interested in this form?  *
What skills would you bring to this lab? Include your artistic discipline and specific skillsets related to it. You can also includes skills from other disciplines. For example, you may be a dancer who loves to sing or a filmmaker who also plays the piano.  *
What are you most interested in working on as an artist? An academic? As a human being? In your relationships in general? Respond to any or all of these questions here:  *
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