Eclipse Ballroom
Theatre Production (Camden Fringe Festival)
Commissioned as Sound Designer & Live Sound Engineer
The Courtyard Theatre & The Cockpit Theatre, London, UK
Eclipse Ballroom is a contemporary theatre piece presented at the Camden Fringe Festival 2025, combining physical performance, live music, and poetic text to portray a surreal dance hall suspended between dream and memory. The production unfolds as an emotional dialogue between movement, rhythm, and silence, exploring the fragility of human connection in a transient world.
As the sound designer and live sound engineer, I approached sound not as a dominant voice but as a narrative presence—something that breathes with the performance. Each sonic layer was composed to respond to the dramaturgical rhythm: the resonance of footsteps echoing across the empty hall, fragments of distorted dance music dissolving into static, the subtle amplification of the performers’ breathing, and the spatial decay that accompanies each blackout.
The live sound mix functioned as an extension of the performers’ gestures, shifting in real time to mirror the tension between intimacy and distance. Through the interplay of recorded textures, ambient drones, and live processing, the sound design aimed to deepen the emotional landscape of the play—serving the script’s evolving tone while maintaining a sense of spatial immersion.
Rather than illustrating the action, the soundscape operated as an undercurrent of memory—an invisible architecture binding the performers’ movement and silence. In this way, the work positioned sound as a subtle but essential dramaturgical element, shaping how the audience felt time, space, and absence.
Press & Reviews:
“The show merges movement, music and sound design into something dreamlike and immersive.”