Wagner Schwartz

Wagner Schwartz in 2014

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. ^[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.

References

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38. "Daniel e Nina Carasso". fondationcarasso.org. 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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42. "Olhares sobre o Corpo". olharessobreocorpo.blogspot.com. Retrieved 3 December 2010.

External links

• wagnerschwartz.com , Schwartz's official website