Episodes is a stark look at the power struggles involved in human sexual relationships.

Dancers meet briefly for an erotic encounter that is brought to an abrupt and often violent end by a sharp slap, a devastating look, or a sexy gait of a passerby. The tension of each couple builds until it can no longer be contained and then erupts in explosive leaps and turns. John B. Reade lights the stage with narrow diagonals alternating with small pools of light which illustrate the fragile supports upon which male/female sexual relationships seem to rest, as though one might take a false step out of the light and into oblivion.

Ulysses Dove created his explosive choreographic masterpiece, Episodes, for the classical London Festival Ballet in 1987. The company danced the piece in bare feet. The following year, Dove re-choreographed the dance on pointe for Patrick Dupond's Ballet Francais de Nancy.

Support for this production was provided, in part, by AT&T.

The original production of this work was made possible, in part, with public funds from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and by a generous grant from The Harkness Foundation for Dance.