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