"Executive Director Jessica Leyva Announced As 2025 Dance USA Emerging Leader"
- Dance/USA

"honestly beautiful and surrounded by an elegant composition that is approximately three parts James Morrow...and one part Trisha Brown."
- The Chicago Tribune

"the three works of the evening embodied four big C’s: cool but contemplative, cosmic but corporeal."
- See Chicago Dance

"daredevils who spun on both hands, one hand, back and knees. The action was truly death-defying.."
- See Chicago Dance

"Adding to its allure is the exceptional use of acrobatic movement that is almost balletic in its grace, beauty and the eye-popping skill it requires."
- WTTW

"...the intensely theatrical interaction is conjured by feats of daring partnering, stylized combat, impeccable technique."
- WTTW

"The dancing is the heart and soul of the piece and its heart beats fast"
- Splash Magazine


"With usual charisma, 'The Last First' is Crash's solution to pandemic..."
- SeeChicagoDance



"...so imaginative, so playfully revisionist, so superbly realized..."
- The Chicago Sun-Times








"...one of the most unique dance experiments presently on the Chicago stage."
- Newcity Chicago


"Matthew Bourne, but with a more primitive, ritualistic, streetwise attack."
- Dance Magazine






"Crash flirts with the worlds of concert dance and commercial entertainment."
- SeeChicagoDance.com

"You expect high-octane performing in a Dance Crash endeavor… and you get it"
- Chicago Tribune

"Pulsing with fun, energy, great pop dancing and in-your-face acrobatics."
- Chicago Tribune

"Crash is unafraid of giving us a concert filled with big, flashy flips"
- Arts-Intercepts
"Versed as they are in so many styles, they can be supremely fun to watch."
- Chicago Tribune
