Eclipse Ballroom

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.

Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 August - 7:00pm

Creative Team
Playwright / Director: Tatjana Yike Yao ｜Movement Director: Hui Chen 辰慧 ｜Voice Coach: Jun Yang 杨钧

Production Team
Producer: Sunny Jie Liu, Sheyang Diao ｜Stage Manager: Jingwen Lu, Sunny Jie Liu ｜Marketing Manager: Grace Yuxuan He ｜Digital Marketing: Wren

Cast（Alphabetical by Role）
Augustina/ Seraphine - Peiyi Zhong ｜Dorian - Yiqian Shao 邵一千 | Echo - Yi Hsin Wang 王羿忻 | Eli - Marian Lee 李梦圆 ｜Rando - Shiwei Chen ｜Raven - Theresa Hongxuan He 

Music
Composer / Sound Artist: Anqi Deng 邓安琦 ｜Actor-Musician: Anqi Deng 邓安琦 (Guitar)｜Actor-Musician: Chen Xu (Piano)｜Actor-Musician: Mingyu Ding 丁明宇 (Drum/ Percussion)

Sound
Head of Sound: Katia Qi Shi ｜Sound Designer / Live Music Mixing Engineer: Jiaye Wang ｜Sound Designer: Mingyu Ding 丁明宇

Scenography
Head of Scenography: Joey Haiting Zhou ｜Visual Artist: Iris Jingyi Zeng ｜Interactive Digital Artist: Zhengyang Li ｜Mask Designer / Maker: Yifei Deng ｜Props Designer / Maker: Kailai Wang ｜Costume Designer / Maker: Homer (Haoming) Li , Jiaxin Fang, Xinyi Huang, Yingqi Hu 胡颖琪

Lighting
Lighting Designer: Zidi Wu ｜Lighting Operator: Summer Yahan Xue

Documentation
Documentary Director: Yike Yao,Yini Wang