Tisch Dance Graduate Student Esther Siddiquie Receives Scholarship from DAAD in Germany
Esther Manon Siddiquie is a dancer, choreographer, and media artist from Bochum, Germany. She is a recent foreign exhange scholar, supported by the Ministery of Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW and was part of the RuhrResidence 2017 of KunstvereineRuhr. She is a London Contemporary Dance School graduate and was awarded the Charlotte Kirk Patrick award for demonstrating exceptional potential as a dance artist. Her works have been performed in Germany, UK, and the USA. She is a founding member of Grokenberger Studio, a collective arts space the creation of music and dance as part of artistania e.V., an intercultural-arts-association at the heart of Berlin Neukolln.
"I feel very grateful about receiving the graduate scholoarship from DAAD or German Academic Exchange Program. It is the most important German support organization in the field of international academic co-operation. I knew that I wanted to apply for the scholarship after having received the acceptance letter from Tisch, to study Dance and Technology in the MFA program. ."
"Receiving the scholarship is not only a great honor, but even more so a necessity, as it is particularly hard to find scholarships as a European citizen in the U.S."
"With the scholarship I have to worry less about my financial situation, but can focus on the studies and do what I love to do."