Wagner Miranda Schwartz (

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, 2 December 1972) is a Brazilian performer,

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and

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Biography

He was born in

, in the State of

. He began his studies of popular music and

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in the public schools of

. Later, at the

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, 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. In 2005 and 2009 he collaborated with the choreographer Rachid Ouramdane in ''Cover'', ''Des témoins ordinaires'', working, during those years, in

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and

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. 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

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. Currently, he resides in

and

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

) * 2003 Finita

Collaboration

* 2016 Bird in a zoo with Pierre Droulers and Stefan Dreher (

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), * 2015 Un petit peu de Zelda (remix) by Yves-Noël Genod (

), * 2012 Questions and their Opposite, with Gustavo Bitencourt and

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(

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) * 2012 Chic By Accident, by Yves-Noël Genod, with Jeanne Balibar (Paris) * 2009 The Ordinary Witness, by Rachid Ouramdane (

) * 2005 Cover, by Rachid Ouramdane (

) * 2005 Mein Raum?, with Natali Fari and Ricardo de Paula (

) * 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

* 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 Sao Paulo Association of Art Critics * 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 sCFestival

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

References

External links

Official Website
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