Origami Night is a multi-disciplinary choreo-poem 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,” will begin its 2026 US Tour in Boston at Arrow Street Arts on March 5.

Joining the production’s Boston premiere is Peter DiMuro, alongside his ensemble Public Displays of Motion. DiMuro will present Light Reading, a contemplation on family, queerness, and the weight of legacy, on which he and Annas-Lee collaborated seven years prior at Gibney Dance (NYC). The work, commissioned in 1990 just blocks from Arrow Street Arts at Harvard Square’s Cambridge Center for Adult Education, has been performed throughout the country and internationally in the repertory of both Public Displays of Motion and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.