Choreographer


Photo: Dimitris Vlaikos
Fashion: Kostis Von Kas
InterContinental Athenaeum Hotel - Athens, Greece (2024)
Glauco Araujo is an interdisciplinary choreographer working across integrated dance, theatre, large-scale performance, film, and site-specific installation. His work bridges Brazilian rhythmic traditions with contemporary movement language, shaped through international collaboration across diverse cultural contexts.
Araujo approaches choreography as a process of shared authorship. While grounded in a clear structural vision, his work evolves through rehearsal dialogue and performer input, allowing each piece to emerge through collaboration.
His movement language draws from ballet, modern, jazz, samba, ballroom, and street dance, seeking clarity, physical expressiveness, and emotional resonance.
A consistent thread throughout his practice is collaboration with integrated and inclusive performance environments, positioning movement as a space of access, dignity, and collective storytelling.
Across Brazil, the United States, Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia, his work has been presented in major festivals, Off-Broadway venues, museum exhibitions, samba arenas, commercial campaigns, and international film circuits.
SELECTED WORKS
Current Interdisciplinary Performance Projects
Hitting the Wall (2026)
Interdisciplinary performance work integrating live music, samba movement vocabulary, theatrical performance, autobiographical narrative, and ensemble choreography. Developed through performances and institutional collaborations in the United States, Brazil and Mexico, including presentations at:
Museo de la Cancillería - Mexico City, Mexico
Instituto Guimarães Rosa / Embassy of Brazil - Mexico City, Mexico
Biblioteca Andrés Henestrosa - Oaxaca, Mexico
Galería Ana Sofía - Puebla, Mexico
Carioca (2025) - Choreographer / Performer
Early development version of an interdisciplinary live performance work exploring Brazilian identity, migration, music, and autobiographical narrative.
Presented at Fringe World Festival - Adelaide, Australia, with additional development presentations in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
Integrated Dance Practice (Brazil & USA)
Coé (2024–Present)
Created for The Dancing Wheels Company (USA)
Premiere: Santa Barbara Bowl, California
Selected presentations include Florence Gould Theatre (APAP), NYC
Flirtango (2016) - Co-Choreographer
Created for Momenta Dance Company (USA)
Presented at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), Chicago
Corpo em Movimento (ANDEF) (2011–2013)
Created 10 original integrated dance works for Corpo em Movimento, the resident company of ANDEF (Association of Disabled People of the City of Niterói, Brazil). The works toured extensively across Brazil in theaters, cultural centers, national accessibility fairs, and major arenas, and were presented internationally during the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, including public performances across the city.
Theatre & Stage
Broadway Goes Hollywood (2023)
Commissioned by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico
51st Festival Internacional Cervantino
21st Festival Internacional de la Costa del Seno Mexicano
In The Room (2022)
SoHo Playhouse - New York City
Little Christmas Miracles (2021–2022)
Off-Broadway - Actors Temple Theatre - New York City
Aria (2018) - Co-Choreographer
Holiday Dance Festival - Theater at St. Jean, NYC
Arena & Sambadrome Choreography (Brazil)
A Restinga Pede Passagem e se Mostra em Superações (2013)
Estado Maior da Restinga - Porto Alegre
Winner - Estandarte de Ouro
O Sol é Luz, Luz é Vida (2011)
Embaixadores da Alegria - Rio de Janeiro
Integrated samba school performing at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí
Museum & Installation
Kambui Olujimi Studio / Swan Song / North Star (2021–2023)
Andy Warhol Museum - Pittsburgh
Cleveland Museum of Art
San José Museum of Art
On Me (2014)
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum - Brazil
Film & Screen Choreography
Dance For Freedom (2020)
First Place - Dr. David Milch Foundation / CCNY
Stop What You’re Doing (2020)
Winner - Best Music Video
Athens International Digital Film Festival
Ruminate (2019)
Winner - Best Dance Choreography
Oniros Film Awards
A Tango to Remember (2020)
Multiple international awards and festival selections
Bellevue Love Story (2022)
Official selection in major international film festivals
Transference (Post-Production)
Transference (Post-Production)
Commercial & Movement Direction
iPLAY App Campaign (2024)
Chengdu, China
InterContinental Athenaeum Hotel Campaign (2024)
Athens, Greece
Alton Lane (2022)
New York City