It's the whole Beyoncé thing, where she says she becomes Sasha Fierce on stage.
On the appalling meter, that did not come anywhere near the fierce brawl staged in an N.F.L. game by Houston's Andre Johnson and Tennessee's Cortland Finnegan, but while the N.F.L. fined them both, it did not suspend them.
And her fierce composure on the stage is at odds with her feminine delicacy.
No matter what Ms. Zambello and her collaborators put on stage, some fierce catcalls may be expected.
It has an almost elemental energy as it sets its six women and three men prowling around the stage, like fierce creatures exploring an alien space.
A theatrical singer who stresses every syl-la-ble, she is also a fierce performer, stalking the stage like a famished leopard.
There were moments in Julio Leitao's choreography for "The Mukishi" when a community was threatened by ominous-looking performers who swept across the stage like fierce winds.
A seasoned dance critic recently wrote of its revival by English National Ballet (sans Ms Guillem): "an almost elemental energy…sets its six women and three men prowling around the stage, like fierce creatures exploring an alien space".
In my face!"; men dash onto the stage with fierce energy, throwing themselves into bounding, buckling solos; a glamorous redhead applies her makeup, impervious to the water being poured on her head; a chorus line of dancers snakes across the stage, smiling broadly at the audience.
Even older material is effortlessly reworked; "What's a Girl to Do" and "Priscilla" get the biggest cheers of the night when they are transformed into fierce harpsichord ballads.Leaving the stage with a few coy thank yous, it's clear what Natasha Khan is going to do.
