Eclipse Ballroom is a postmodern performance that merges physical theater, absurdity, and experimental storytelling. In this hybrid work of a text-based and devising theatre, holographic projections, live band improvisation, and collaborations with moving image artists and computational artists converge to create an immersive, ever-shifting sensory world.
Our bodies are the masks of our souls. Sometimes, a single body can hold more than one spirit. At night, ghosts often slip into the bodies of those who live alone, gathering in abandoned spaces that transform into the Eclipse Ballroom. They celebrate the fleeting sensation of existence, feeling gravity, weight, intimacy, and the pulse of life once more.
A young woman moves into a new apartment and follows her roommate, who is unknowingly possessed at midnight, into the Eclipse Ballroom. Her living presence disrupts the ghostly world, sparking chaos, humor, and a debate about the fate of humanity. The old souls, displaced by time like forgotten echoes, question anthropocentrism and the very nature of the Ballroom. Should this space remain an exclusive refuge for the dead, or can the living also claim a place among them? Should the human form remain exclusive to the living, or does it rightfully belong to those who still crave it?
Infused with music, rhythm, and call-and-response, Eclipse Ballroom dissolves the boundaries between performer and audience. Through choreographed physicality and digitally generated environments, it explores themes of modern nostalgia, urban isolation, physicality, and digital disembodiment. The Ballroom becomes a liminal space: between life and afterlife, body and ghost, flesh and projection. Nothing is stable here, yet everything is deeply felt.
Kim Richey at The Courtyard Theatre - London (2/22/26-2/22/26)
The Courtyard Theatre is at 40 Pitfield Street N1 6EU, London.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts 1 & 2 Sat 14:00 & 19:00
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