Scholarship from the Studienstiftung for Marie Houssin

Ma­rie Hous­sin, a ba­che­lor’s stu­dent in dance at the Frank­furt Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts, has re­cei­ved a scho­lar­ship from the Ger­man Na­tio­nal Aca­de­mic Foun­da­ti­on. In July, she par­ti­ci­pa­ted in the ar­tis­tic sel­ec­tion pro­cess in Ber­lin and was sub­se­quent­ly ac­cep­t­ed into the pro­gram.

In ad­di­ti­on to fi­nan­cial and per­so­nal sup­port, the scho­lar­ship of­fers a cul­tu­ral and aca­de­mic pro­gram de­si­gned to fos­ter ex­ch­an­ge and the per­so­nal de­ve­lo­p­ment of the re­ci­pi­en­ts. It also pro­vi­des op­por­tu­ni­ties for net­wor­king among the re­ci­pi­en­ts and with alum­ni of the Stu­di­en­stif­tung. The scho­lar­ship pro­gram is gui­ded by the prin­ci­ples of ex­cel­lence, in­itia­ti­ve, and re­spon­si­bi­li­ty.

Ma­rie Hous­sin was born in France in 2004 and be­gan dancing at the age of five. She com­ple­ted her pre-pro­fes­sio­nal dance trai­ning at the Aca­dé­mie In­ter­na­tio­na­le de la Dan­se in Pa­ris as part of a mul­ti­di­sci­pli­na­ry pro­gram. In 2023, she pas­sed the EAT tech­ni­cal apti­tu­de exam in con­tem­po­ra­ry dance and sub­se­quent­ly con­tin­ued her trai­ning at Co­bos­Mi­ka in Spain. Sin­ce 2024, she has been pur­suing a ba­che­lor’s de­gree in dance at the HfMDK Frank­furt.

Her trai­ning in­cludes bal­let, con­tem­po­ra­ry dance, the Gra­ham tech­ni­que, and mo­dern jazz. She has worked with cho­reo­graph­ers such as Ju­li­an Bar­nett, Anne Jung, Ri­chie Ober­sche­ven, Da­mi­en Gmür, and Sade Ma­me­do­va, and has ex­plo­red the re­per­toires of Ohad Naha­rin and Anne Te­re­sa De Ke­ers­mae­ker.