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Sarah Afua Asante Ntiamoah

About me

Name: Sarah Afua Asante Ntiamaoh

Date of birth: 25.10.1996

Sex: Female

E-mail: sarah-asante@web.de

Instagram: sarah.a.a.art

Current school: Hogeschool ZUYD, Maastricht Academy for Performing Arts

Department: Stage and costume design

CONTENTdrawings

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designs for productions„Eclipsed- A Plastic State of Mind“

10-11

„Phaedras‘s Love“12-13

„Blutbad“14-15

„Kasimir und Karoline“16-17

stage and costume designs„Die Zauberflöte“

18-21

„Richard III“22-23

„Romeo and Juliet“24-27

„Quai West“28-29

„My Fair Lady“30-35

„The Little Elf“36-37

costume designs„The Flying Dutchman“

38-39

installations„Du kannst uns nicht verlassen“

40-41

„We Need You“42-43

„Kamen“44-45

„As Deep As The Ocean“46-47

paintings 48-49

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chalk on black paper

drawings

oil pastel and pencil

chalk and black pen on brown paper

chalk on white paper

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aquarelle on paper

pencil

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design for productions

„Eclipsed- A Plastic State

of Mind“ by

Danai Gurira

director:Gavin Viano Fabri

2020

Picture: Daan Brand

This play is about the stories of five females during the

Liberian civil war in 2003. It deals with their power and will

to survive and trying to not give up.

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In our realization we chose to make just one room so that the audience not only sees the small tank, but also realizes that there is a big tank.

„Phaedra‘s Love“ by

Sarah Kane

mentor:for stage Kathrin Frosch for costume Tabea Braun

director:Luna Joosten

2018

My director and I had the idea that one of the main characters, Hippolytus, wants to be a goldfish, because that would make life so much easier. But he is too intelligent and everyone around him is more goldfish than him.

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End of the performance. Water is turnig into red.

Close-up from Klytaimnestra and Agamemnon

Close-up of infusions hanging from the ceiling.

„Blutbad“ by

Gustav Ernst

mentor:Guus van Geffen

2017

For this play, I immediately had the idea of an actual bath that was

clean and abstract.

in cooperation with: Katrin Stubbe andArinth Foekema

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Kasimir and Karoline, the two main characters.

„Kasimir und Karoline“ from

Ödön von Horváth

mentor:for stage Kathrin Froschfor costume Tabea Braun

director:Jasmine Ouazzi

2017

The play takes place on the Oktoberfest. Everything is set on a turntable. The turntable is divided into different colours, these are the areas of the characters. The costumes reflect their different colors too.

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stage and costume designs

„Die Zauberflöte“ by

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

mentor:for stage Kathrin Frosch

for costume Jorine van Beek

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Costume designs for „Die Zauberflöte“

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„Richard III“ by

William Shakespeare

mentor:Sabine Snijders

2017

My vision for the play was to have two worlds: An overwhelmingbeautiful one, whish is like a

facade where everything seems perfect and a dark one, where all

the bad things are revealed.

Margaretha

Prince

Richard

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„Romeo and Juliet“ by

William Shakespeare

mentor:Petya Boyukova and Svetoslav Kokalov

2019

I chose an underground passage, which I passed almost everyday. There are a lot of them in Sofia, so it is a recognizable place for everyone. I changed and added some elements so that it becomes a different

place.

This project was a location project.

It was important for me that the audience moves from place to place and that the action

takes place everywhere. For the costume designs, I decided to make the two main

characters Romeo and Juliet more timeless.

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storyboard

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„Quai West “ by

Bernard-Marie Koltès

mentor:Sjef Tilly

2017

This play is about two people, the costumer and the dealer, meeting in a lonely location. For me, this is a very abstract place outside of time and space. I placed them so that they can not escape from each other and are stuck in the loneliness. The audience looks down on them from a separate angel. The only natural element I chose to bring in are dead plants under the transparent floor. They remind the audience of a world outside, but also of loneliness.

customer

dealer

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„My Fair Lady“ by

Alan Jay Lerner music by Frederick Loewe

mentor:for stage Katrien Bombe

for costume Arno Bremers

2018

For me, this play is about emancipation, as

well as class distinction. So I

chose to separate the two worlds, rich and poor, with a wall on a

turntable.

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Costume designs for „My Fair Lady“

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Technical plan: Schauspielhaus Bochum

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„The Little Elf“

mentor:Vassil Rokomanov and

Silva Bachvarova

2019

For this puppet-play it wasimportant for me to make everyt-hing very acces-sible for children, who are the main audience. It was very interesting and a lot of fun to get into this genre.

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The Flying Dutchman

Senta

costume designs

„The Flying Dutchman“ by

Richard Wagner

mentor:Rien Bekkers

2018

For this play, my idea was that the costumes of the two

protagonists really stand in contrast with each other, but are

also connected to nature.

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installations

„Du kannst uns nicht Verlassen“

mentor:Anne Habermann

Anna Luyten

2020

Here is the link to my installation film:

https://vimeo.com/409812847

I started my installation process with questions from my bachelor thesis.

One of them was:„Bin ich mir selbst genug?“

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„We Need You“

for the Musica Sacra Festival 2017 in Maastricht

installation and performance

mentor:Anne Habermann

The topic of the festival was: „In the beginning“. The

installation combines many individuals to one big thing and

needs everyone to exist. For this, we took over 60

plaster masks from different people and combined them to

one artwork.

made by:Sarah Afua Asante Ntiamoah

Mathilde van der Hoop Sofie Moritz

performance: Ingeborg Knøsensound: Giannis Montesantos

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„Kamen“

documentary installation

mentor: Floriean Fischer

2018

This installation was about an operation named: „Kamen“, which

aimed at capturinganti-communists in

Czechoslovakia after the Second Word War. The project was about

„documentary“. I made seven different black boxes filled with

objects that had to be experienced with all senses.

The boxes were arranged in a chaotic room and to every box was a part of a text I wrote. It describes the operation „Kamen“. Only one person was

allowed to enter the room at once, so that he or she was able to experience the whole installation on their own.

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„As Deep As The Ocean“

for the Musica Sacra Festival 2018 in Maastricht

interactive installation

mentor: Jorine van Beek

This installation was about identity and how we play with it. Inspiration came from different NGOs, especially Sea-watch, who rescue drowning refugees in the Mediterranean Sea. The installation was interactive, so that people can touch it and move things around.

„We‘re all one thing, Lieutenant. That‘s what I‘ve come to

realize. Like cells in a body. ‘Cept we can‘t see the body. The way fish can‘t see the

ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that?

A heart cell hating a lung cell.“

-Cassi from THE THREE(Movie: Adaptation)

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paintings

acrylic on blank paper

Drawings: people in space