Origami Night

Origami Night is a multi-disciplinary choreopoem utilizing spoken word, dance, and sensory design to trace a woman’s life from working class navy brat to radical feminist to mother, and explore aging, love, loneliness, and the queer act of self-examination. Described by The Sleepless Critic during a 2024 residency with Boston Center for the Arts as an “intense experience unlike anything I have seen before,” the piece features the poetry of Boston-based poet Pamela Annas, adapted for the stage by multimedia designer (and her son) Christopher Annas-Lee and choreographed by Graham Cole (a Portland, OR-based producer and Director of the Oregon dance presenter White Bird). Origami Night, which impressed The Somerville Times as “a deeply satisfying and authentic collaboration,” continues its US Tour at Target Margin on April 9.

Joining the production’s New York City premiere is Felipe Escalante and Tabula Rasa Dance Theatre. For nearly a decade, Escalante’s ensemble has explored the inhumanity of mass incarceration, the brutal practice of conversion therapy, the devastation of gender-based violence, the plight of refugees, and how to find kindness in a world such as ours. Previous collaborations with Annas-Lee include Oedipus Rex (New York Live Arts, 2023), Ship of Fools (Gerald Lynch Theater, 2024), and Borders of Light (Museo del Barrio, 2025).

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