In 2014, Andrew Scott played an increasingly unhinged rock star in Simon Stephens' Birdland at the Royal Court, and much of his glittering charisma radiated through dance – a feral shuttle you could feel in your bones.
Fuck with the clearly stupid coffee guy for a little too long, make fun of your boss (he'll love it), sexy-dance with feral eyes at your gay hair stylist.
Elsewhere, I witnessed the suffocating intensity of Iona Kewney at Chisenhale Dance Space and could barely speak afterwards – a feral, mesmerising performance somewhere between dance, improvisation and ritual.
Yanowsky dances a magnificent, almost feral Dying Swan and also Will Tuckett's Nisi Dominus, in which she is arch, grand, delicate and odd as a ghostly 18th-century figurine.
Dance Gang brought a feral, sexual intensity to "Bad News," threading bits of razzle-dazzle into a spare, formalist duet.
An unflinching spectator of his own pain, Shechter uses dance to twist it into something feral and even beautiful.
Written accounts testified to its almost feral strangeness, but no one had seen or danced it for more than six decades.
But Mr. Houston-Jones appears only in the beginning, embracing and blindfolding a man (Arturo Vidich) whose full face we never see, and offering a too-brief solo that is something of an overture: a hinging, fluid dance that seethes with an almost feral desire.
He is sometimes charmed, sometimes revolted by the creatures who join him onstage in an introductory courtly dance, itself an inspired mix of the feral and the formal.
