ECLIPSE
A descent into sensory isolation and atmospheric tension. ‘Eclipse’ explores the boundaries of endurance and transformation through Alexey Erberg’s immersive soundscapes.
ECLIPSE is not about darkness. It is about the courage to encounter oneself.
This work unfolds as a visual manifesto of endurance and transformation. Rooted in Alexey Erberg’s book “Looking in the Same Direction” the performance draws from its textual fragments, alongside materials from a conceptual film, to construct a layered field of meaning. These voices, detached from individual characters, form a kind of “collective unconscious,” a sonic and semantic environment through which the performers’ physical language emerges. At its core, ECLIPSE is an exploration of post-traumatic experience and the process of moving through loss. It speaks to those shaped by rupture: war, catastrophe, personal grief, and the silent aftermath of survival. The work inhabits the threshold – where fear, anger, emptiness, and unspoken memory converge – where one stands on the edge of eclipse.
Rather than illustrating narrative, the performers embody trajectories: moving toward their anxieties, through them, and beyond. The gesture becomes a passage. The body becomes a site of resistance and release. The project evolved through an ongoing dialogue between text, sound, and movement. Erberg revisits earlier materials – including lectures, recorded voices, poetic fragments, and references such as Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Listen!” – weaving them together with newly composed works by Sergei Tumanov and the ..dno< sound theater. The result is a hypnotic, psychological, music-driven performative landscape – initially conceived under the title Unio Mystica (“mystical union”). ECLIPSE ultimately becomes an invitation: to face the internal rupture, to move through the density of suppressed emotion, and to illuminate one’s own darkness from within. It proposes that the path forward exists – and that within confrontation lies the possibility of light.
CREDITS:
Editing Director (video version): Alexey Erberg
Cinematography: Irina Litvinova
Close-up Visual Artist: Tatiana Savostyanova
Choreography: Irina Litvinova, Alexey Erberg
Dramaturgy & Dance Dramaturgy: Alexey Erberg
Production: Impro Sessions ART PERFORMING TEAM
Performers: Katerina Pavlova, Natalia Kremer, Irina Litvinova, Alexey Erberg
Voices: Alexey Erberg, Svetlana Uvarova, Sergei Lysyuk, Gavin Mable, Vivienne Higher, Kurt Immanens
Music: Sergei Tumanov, ..dno< sound theater, Alexey Erberg
Dramaturgical material based on: “Looking in the Same Direction” by Alexey Erberg
LINKS:
https://alexeyerberg.ru
https://sergeitumanov.com
Released by UNDER SOUND (USC004)