Characterized by a seamless blend of expressive theatricality and heart-stopping athleticism, Ulysses Dove's choreography brilliantly captures the raw complexity of modern relationships.

In Urban Folk Dance, two isolated couples search for connection as they engage in ferocious power struggles resonating with emotional intensity and razor sharp physicality. "Dove gives us performing at its most virtuosic and theater of the highest order," proclaimed the Daily News.

Funds for the original Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater production were provided, in part, by Altria Group, Inc., and the Ailey New Works Fund.

Urban Folk Dance was originally commissioned by the Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, as part of an artist-in-residence project featuring Ulysses Dove and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. Urban Folk Dance received its world premiere in 1990 by DCDC on the campus of Miami University.