She is the recipient of the 2023 Regional NSW Choreographic Research Fellowship from Critical Path. In 2023 she is collaborating with Ira Ferris and Stella Chen to explore what a new relationship to time offers her practice and a different way to make work. Asking, “Can time be decolonised while working with the body in performance?” What shifts/transformations in the individual and social body could occur through a shift; if we decolonise time and slow down - as an innovative approach to choreographic practice?. 

She invites you into her work whilst working on Bundjalung Country. Click here to enter the research.

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Born in Chile with a history of Chilean Ancestry. Balcazar’s roots with Chile are strong, a place she feels ongoing connection and disconnection with. Her memories of the country she grew up in are alive, vivid and clear. In late 2022 Gabriela Green Olea invited Geraldine to share, connect and exchange with their living Chilean Ancestry in Gabriela's Ready Made Works Residency. 

Performance invites her to imagine and be curious of her past, present and future. The work she creates is collaborative and challenges the role of the audience in participatory sensory experiences, building intimate connections and a place for conversation. She is curious about minute micro-movements, stillness, silence; and what emerges from here. 

She enjoys sketching, photography and writing as ways of processing her thoughts, and using dramaturgy to extend on her practice.

Geraldine continues to research the body and mind as a way to continue learning and support; her, her parenting and arts practice. She studies embodiment and somatics with Alice Cummins, has put her studies into practice in dance conversations with Meredith Elton, and shares practice and motherhood with Ade Suharto. All while making time and space to have slow conversations on changing ways to care and connect through body based practices. 

She has worked with nationally and internationally renowned artists Paul Walker, Gabriela Green Olea, Meredith Elton, Tammy Zarb, Gogi Dance Collective, Sydney Dance Co, Annalouise Paul, Marina Abramovic, Linsey Peisinger, Tino Sehgal,  Xavier Le Roy, Scarlet Yu and Kaldor Public Art Projects. She wrote the Embodiment Experience Module for the UTS, Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation Degree and has trained in a diversity of movement languages with Alice Cummins, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Bianca Machliss, Simon Borg-Olivier and Clive Sheridan.