vestigal

On Friday at Theater for the New City, Ms. Kresge brought those virtues to “Vestigal,” a new, hourlong piece by the veteran choreographer Wendy Osserman, who has been presenting work in New York since 1976.

If anything holds “Vestigal” together, throughout what feels like a sequence of random encounters, it’s chaos: Ms. Kresge and Ms. Ferguson pressed, back to back, locked at the elbows; Ms. Vetsch scuttling past them in an apelike squat; all three straining to outstretch their own limbs.

Changed "vestigal" to "vestigial" on page 578: vestigal-winged flies.

It is now vestigal in civilized man, but may be developed by practice.

In fact, this physical sense may be termed almost vestigal in civilized man, because he has not actively used it for many generations.