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Discussion | The Nakedness of the Imperfect Copy: A Conversation on Dance

Thursday, February 15, 2024, 5:30 pm

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Wagner Schwartz will engage in a conversation with Andre Lepecki about this piece, the controversy in 2017, and his career.

In September 2017, after performing his solo work "La Bete" ("The Animal" or "The Beast") in several international art venues since 2005, the Brazilian dancer and choreographer Wagner Schwartz saw himself at the epicenter of brutal attacks from the extreme right in Brazil, after presenting his famous work at the 35th Brazilian Art Panorama, at MAM-SP (the Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paulo). Wagner, as well as his close family and friends, were threatened to death; the curators were summoned under duress to a Senate hearing in Brasilia; and the performance became the excuse for the unleashing of rabid and coward attacks against LGBTQIA+ people in Brazil--animating with renewed homo- and trans-phobic energy the candidacy Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil.

Wagner Schwartz will engage in a conversation with Andre Lepecki about this piece, the controversy in 2017, the relation between performance, dance and the political, but also about his broader artistic work as one of the most influential Brazilian choreographers working today in the eve before presenting "La Bete" at NYU's Skirball as part of Queer New York International Arts Festival curated by Zvonimir Dobrovic.

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