Wagner Schwartz

Wagner Miranda Schwartz (born 2 December 1972) is a Brazilian performance artist, dancer, choreographer and writer.

Wagner Schwartz in 2014

Early life and education

Schwartz was born in Volta Redonda, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.^[1] He began his studies of popular music and drama in Volta Redonda's public schools. Later, at the Federal University of Uberlândia,^[2] located in Minas Gerais, Schwartz 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]

Career

In 2005 and 2009, Schwartz collaborated with the choreographer Rachid Ouramdane in Cover,^[4] Des témoins ordinaires,^[5] working, during those years, in Paris, São Paulo and Berlin.^[6]

In 2017, his performance of La Bête in the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art sparked controversy in Brazil and abroad, when naked, Schwartz was touched on the foot by a child of approximately four years of age.^[7]

Personal life

Schwartz resides in São 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]

Collaborations

• 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] ISBN 978-8569020882
• 2018 – Nunca juntos mas ao mesmo tempo / Jamais ensemble mais en même temps (Editora Nós)^[31] ISBN 9788569020349

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

• 2024 – Finalist for the São Paulo Prize for Literature (category: "Best Novel of 2023", with the book A nudez da cópia imperfeita [The Nudity of the Imperfect Copy])^[37]
• 2021 – Fundação Daniel and Nina Carasso / Cité des Arts, Paris^[38]
• 2013 – Prêmio Funarte de Dança Klauss Vianna^[39]
• 2012 – Best Artistic Project of 2012 for Piranha, by the São Paulo Art Critics Association^[40]
• 2012 – Funarte Klauss Vianna Dance
• 2011 – Prêmio Funarte Klauss Vianna 2011^[41]
• 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 created, together with Fernanda Bevilaqua, the festival Olhares sobre o Corpo [OsC] ("Perspectives on the Body").^[42] A meeting between artists, students and the people interested on the contemporary relationship in dance, visual arts and performance.