"...Some works of dance and theater show you how it feels to step into someone else’s shoes, but “Up Again…” feels like stepping into someone’s brain!“Up Again, down again, UPAGAIN” communicates what it is like to be an artist living with bipolar disorder, a back and forth between sober paralysis and intense creativity. Educational and entertaining, the value in Irizarry’s work goes beyond enjoyment by eliciting feelings of empathy towards fellow humans and a better understanding of what it’s like to be human". 
-Tristan Bruns: See Chicago Dance