Miriam Swartz

Miriam Swartz is a performing artist, choreographer, and educator with a broad background in interdisciplinary movement practices, including contemporary circus, dance, music, and physical theatre. Her artistic career as a performer has always been closely intertwined with her work in teaching and artistic mediation.

Her practice is grounded in a hybrid research methodology and a performative, choreographic pedagogy that moves between three interconnected positions: artist, researcher, and educator.

She works with the individual and the unique embodied expression of each performer, while drawing on a broad artistic literacy to cultivate diverse and high-quality representation within both interdisciplinary performing arts and the wider dance field.

Central to her work is a norm-critical approach informed by queer-feminist and decolonizing perspectives on dance and movement practices. Through an intersectional lens—engaging questions of diversity, authenticity, agency, equality, gender, and democracy—she seeks to question and expand established choreographic and pedagogical frameworks. At the same time, her work emphasizes respect for lived experience, autonomy, and authenticity in the creative process. Cultivating these values forms the foundation of her artistic and pedagogical practice.