Wagner Miranda Schwartz

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

Early life and education Schwartz was born in Volta Redonda, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. He began his studies of popular music and drama in Volta Redonda's public schools. Later, at the Federal University of Uberlândia, 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.

Career In 2005 and 2009, Schwartz collaborated with the choreographer Rachid Ouramdane in Cover, Des témoins ordinaires, working, during those years, in Paris, São Paulo and Berlin.

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.

Personal life Schwartz resides in São Paulo and Paris.

Performances 2020 – Tumba 2019 – Playlist, with Lorenzo De Angelis 2019 – A Boba (Silly Woman) 2018 – Public Domain, with Elisabete Finger, Maikon K and Renata Carvalho 2014 – Mal Secreto 2010 – Piranha 2008 – Placebo 2008 2006 – Placebo 2005 – La Bête 2004 – Wagner Ribot Pina Miranda Xavier Le Schwartz Transobjeto (European premiere, 2005, at the festival "Move Berlim", in Berlin ) 2003 – Finita

Collaborations 2016 – Bird in a Zoo, with Pierre Droulers and Stefan Dreher (Brussels) 2015 – Un petit peu de Zelda (remix), by Yves-Noël Genod (Paris) 2012 – Questions and Their Opposite, with Gustavo Bitencourt and Sheila Ribeiro (Curitiba) 2012 – Chic by Accident, by Yves-Noël Genod, with Jeanne Balibar (Paris) 2009 – The Ordinary Witness, by Rachid Ouramdane (Paris) 2005 – Cover, by Rachid Ouramdane (Paris) 2005 – Mein Raum?, with Natali Fari and Ricardo de Paula (Berlin) 2003 – What You Wish, What You Want, Here I Am Ready to Serve You, by Cláudia Müller (Torres Vedras)

Books 2023 – A nudez da cópia imperfeita (Editora Nós) 2018 – Nunca juntos mas ao mesmo tempo / Jamais ensemble mais en même temps (Editora Nós)

Films 2018 – Le genre international, directed by Judith Cahen and Masayasu Eguchi with Maria de Medeiros 2009 – I Needed to Get Some Time, with Rachid Ouramdane 1996 – The Poet, Filminute: The International One-Minute Film Festival, directed by Waltuir Alves

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]) 2021 – Fundação Daniel and Nina Carasso / Cité des Arts, Paris 2013 – Prêmio Funarte de Dança Klauss Vianna 2012 – Best Artistic Project of 2012 for Piranha, by the São Paulo Art Critics Association 2012 – Funarte Klauss Vianna Dance 2011 – Prêmio Funarte Klauss Vianna 2011 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"). A meeting between artists, students and the people interested on the contemporary relationship in dance, visual arts and performance.