After the End of the World

Sometimes reinventing the wheel is a good idea. Though Chicago Dance Crash's evening-length epic Tribulation and the Demolition Squad has plenty of precedents-… it also feels fresh and unique. And I've seldom seen a dance-theatre piece so effectively, authoritatively blend story and movement… The movement, drawing on an array of forms from capoeira and other martial arts to acrobatics to stage combat to modern dance, gives the performance an apocalyptic thrill… Hackman's creation and perhaps his alter ego, he reveals that the 25 year-old auteur is someone to watch.

-- Laura Molzahn, Chicago Reader on Tribulation and the Demolition Squad