Ethan Philbrick
Ethan Philbrick is a cellist, artist, and writer. He is currently the curator-in-residence at the Poetry Project and a member of the curatorial collective for the performance series, Offerings.
The mise en scène for Narcissister’s Voyage Into Infinity was a grand assemblage of ropes, pallets, ladders, fabric sheets, paint buckets, oil drums, and exercise equipment. Everything connected to something else. The multi-story proscenium of NYU Skirball’s eight-hundred-seat theater fully rigged (both in height and depth) with a precarious construction ready to be tipped into motion.
I’ll start by stating the obvious: a beach is, in many ways, the opposite of a theater.
On May 5, 2025, the Vietnamese choreographer and writer Anh Vo posted a digital flier for “a guerrilla dance” that was to take place outdoors in Brooklyn at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
