Sanne Danz in English

Sanne Danz studied at the Minerva Academy for the Arts in Groningen and subsequently completed a master’s degree in sculpture at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. As a freelance scenographer, she designed stage sets for more than 130 performances, mainly in her native country.

In 1989 she was a Prix de Rome finalist. Her work was included in the Dutch submissions to the Prague Quadrennial in 2003 and 2007 and also featured in several exhibitions on spatial design, among others in the Dutch Architecture Institute. Her other activities include designing exhibitions and teaching scenography at various art schools in The Netherlands.

Sanne Danz’s extensive experience as scenographer ranges from modest, experimental theatre to large-scale, often site- specific music theatre. In addition to many contemporary works, she has created sets for The Threepenny Opera, Carmen, Mahagonny Songspiel, The Flying Dutchman, Macbeth, Oblomov, Kasimir und Karoline and the Tony Award-winning production Once Upon a Forest, staged at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis.

More recently Sanne Danz was scenographer for the German opera ‘Rusalka’ performed in 2010 in Dortmund and ‘Die Entführung aus dem Serail’ which was staged at the Aalto Muziktheater in Essen in 2012. The world premiere of Taner Akyol’s ‘Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves’, featuring Danz’s current set designs, is scheduled for the autumn of 2012 at the Komische Oper in Berlin.