Ulysses Dove’s Episodes is a starkly passionate interpretation of the power struggles involved in human relationships.  Set to a sparse, percussive score by Robert Ruggieri with the choreography contained along two diagonally-lit paths, private battles between the sexes play out for all to see onstage.  Moments of tension, explosive confrontation, and unresolved longing are drawn out as duos partner with complete abandon.

Following the Company premiere of Episodes in 1989, The New York Times wrote, “the work is a visceral turn-on, testimony to Mr. Dove’s incontrovertible gift for exciting the senses, for exploiting a physical and kinetic impact to its utmost.”

"I did this piece after a very dear friend of mine died from AIDS, and my feeling when he died was that I really wished that I had had more minutes with him – to say things like, 'I really appreciated the time we spent together, I really appreciated what his friendship meant." But I didn't have five minutes. And as I was thinking about it, I thought what would be a positive way into a work... I thought what would life be like if everybody lived every single moment, so that at the end of life we didn't need five minutes with anybody, that life was so fully lived that each episode of life was complete and that the only thing we could hope for was that we would have more episodes." –Ulysses Dove

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.