Wagner Miranda Schwartz (Rio de Janeiro, Volta Redonda, 2 December 1972) is a Brazilian performer, choreographer and writer.

Wagner Schwartz

Biography

He was born in Volta Redonda, in the State of Rio de Janeiro.^[1] He began his studies of popular music and drama in the public schools of Volta Redonda. Later, at the Federal University of Uberlândia,^[2] Wagner studied modernist literature and art, which influences his approach to choreography, receiving the award of the Art Foundation Itau Cultural in 2000–2001, 2003–2004, 2009–2010, 2014.^[3] In 2005 and 2009 he collaborated with the choreographer Rachid Ouramdane in Cover,^[4] Des témoins ordinaires,^[5] working, during those years, in Paris, Sao Paulo and Berlin.^[6] In 2017, his performance La Bête sparked controversy in Brazil and abroad, when naked, Wagner was touched on the foot by a child of approximately four years of age in the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art.^[7] Currently, he resides in Sao Paulo and Paris.^[8]

Performances

• 2020 Tumba
• 2019 Playlist, with Lorenzo De Angelis^[9]
• 2019 A Boba (Silly Woman) ^[10]
• 2018 Public Domain, with Elisabete Finger, Maikon K and Renata Carvalho^[11]
• 2014 Mal Secreto^[12]
• 2010 Piranha^[13]
• 2008 Placebo 2008^[14]
• 2006 Placebo^[15]
• 2005 La Bête^[16]
• 2004 Wagner Ribot Pina Miranda Xavier Le Schwartz Transobjeto (European premiere, 2005, at the festival "Move Berlim", in Berlin^[17])
• 2003 Finita ^[18]

Collaboration

• 2016 Bird in a zoo with Pierre Droulers and Stefan Dreher (Brussels),^[19]
• 2015 Un petit peu de Zelda (remix) by Yves-Noël Genod (Paris),^[20]
• 2012 Questions and their Opposite,^[21] with Gustavo Bitencourt and Sheila Ribeiro (Curitiba)^[22]
• 2012 Chic By Accident,^[23] by Yves-Noël Genod, with Jeanne Balibar (Paris)^[24]
• 2009 The Ordinary Witness,^[25] by Rachid Ouramdane (Paris)^[26]
• 2005 Cover,^[27] by Rachid Ouramdane (Paris)
• 2005 Mein Raum?, with Natali Fari and Ricardo de Paula (Berlin)^[28]
• 2003 What you wish, what you want, here I am ready to serve you, by Cláudia Müller (Torres Vedras)^[29]

Books

• 2023 A nudez da cópia imperfeita (Editora Nós)^[30]
• 2018 Nunca juntos mas ao mesmo tempo / Jamais ensemble mais en même temps (Editora Nós)^[31]

Films

• 2018 Le genre international,^[32] directed by Judith Cahen and Masayasu Eguchi^[33] with Maria de Medeiros
• 2009 I Needed to get some time,^[34] with Rachid Ouramdane^[35]
• 1996 The Poet, Filminute: The International One-Minute Film Festival, directed by Waltuir Alves^[36]

Prizes

• 2021 Fundação Daniel and Nina Carasso / Cité des Arts, Paris^[37]
• 2013 Prêmio Funarte de Dança Klauss Vianna ^[38]
• 2012 Best Artistic Project of 2012 for "Piranha", by the Sao Paulo Association of Art Critics^[39]
• 2012 Funarte Klauss Vianna Dance
• 2011 Prêmio Funarte Klauss Vianna 2011^[40]
• 2010 Rumos Itaú Cultural Dance
• 2006 Funarte Klauss Vianna Dance
• 2005 Território Minas, FID (Dance International Forum)
• 2003 Rumos Itaú Cultural Dance
• 2003 XVI Festival de Dança do Triangulo
• 2000 Rumos Itaú Cultural Dance
• 1996 The International One-Minute Film Festival

Olhares sobre o Corpo [OsC] Festival

In 2004, he creates, together with Fernanda Bevilaqua, the festival Olhares sobre o Corpo [OsC] ("Perspectives on the Body").^[41] A meeting between artists, students and the people interested on the contemporary relationship in dance, visual arts and performance.

References

External links

• Official Website