The Head is not the Star of the Body: On Tour!

Join us for a send-off Celebration and Preview Run of The Head is not the Star of the Body by Cassie Wang, Resident Dancemaker at BCA!

Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) has been awarded a New England States Touring (NEST) Grant from New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) to support a tour of The Head is not the Star of the Body that extends direct support for a Boston-based artist to tour in New England.

The Head is not the Star of the Body is a study on longing, a meditation on desire, and a measure of distances between. Created by Cassie Wang at BCA, the interdisciplinary performance is a choreographic and ethnographic response to music by American indie folk band Big Thief. Six performers traverse through states of holding, witnessing, singing, chasing, and coalescing in embodiments of varying relationally. The audience frames the performance on opposite sides, positioned to witness both the dance and a reflection of themselves/the other. Generative video art and projection weave into a dance that is intimate, nostalgic, and tender through moments of affective viscerally. Throughout this multi-year process, Wang and her collaborators ground themselves in the questions: How does longing reveal identity? How do we sit with someone else’s longing? How do we measure the distance between subjects of longing?