Frequently Asked Questions

The Lunar and Solar main directors first start by deciding on a schedule for ECLIPSE, going week by week as we get more comeback announcements. They decide which cover happens which weeks, trying to balance boy group and girl group comebacks so that subunit activity is balanced. If there are no notable comebacks for a certain week, we do what we call 'slow covers' or 'passion project' covers of songs that members have suggested.

Generally, we aim to have a cover learned, cleaned, and filmed within the course of 1 week. Once a cover has been assigned to a certain week, an ECLIPSE member volunteers to act as logistics manager to help schedule the times and dates of rehearsals with help from one of the main directors. They let the rest of the subunit know that we are doing the cover on these dates and when to signup. Members then get to sign up to participate, and they are chosen to do the cover by the directors with priority given to those who have no scheduling conflicts and/or volunteer to teach the choreography. If there are more people that have signed up than there are members in the idol group, the process is randomized. Main directors assign dancers to the idols they will be covering, and then during that week, the members have 4 weekday evening rehearsals with a weekend filming (usually on Saturday afternoons in San Francisco).

Rehearsals run for 3 hours on weekday evenings. The assigned teacher(s) for a cover must learn the choreography and have blocking notes/formation changes done before the first rehearsal. We learn the choreography together as a group so that we can try to standardize our movements and move in sync from the beginning. We aim to have the full song learned and with blocking by the end of the second practice that week, so the last 2 practices are used to "clean". Cleaners are other members who have volunteered to come to practice and let the dancers know if formations look off, if things aren't matching as a group or look too different from the original idols, etc. The final practice is also often used as a filming practice for MiggySmallz (our videographer) and dress rehearsal before filming day that weekend.

The logistics manager and main directors discuss with our stylist (Joyce, a member on Lunar's subunit!) who helps to make sure the outfits emulate similar energy to what the idols show on certain stages. We try to bring our clothes to the final practice to see if our outfits all complement each other and don't get in the way of our dancing.

No, our practice space is private to ECLIPSE members only for safety reasons. If you are curious what the learning and cleaning process is like, our public workshops are the best ways to interact with the team and learn from our members in a similar way to how we learn during practices.

Absolutely! We post our filming day schedules on our socials with dates and estimated times we'll be at the locations. We'd love to see you there and have you be part of our K-Pop in Public experience. Please also feel free to take pictures/videos while we're dancing, tag us on Instagram, and come say hello when we're taking filming breaks!

We are lucky enough to live in the Bay Area which is made up of many big crowded cities, so we try to explore open spaces in San Francisco and San Jose that get a lot of foot traffic but also will allow us to film.