satyric

The choice of Heilmann was obvious: Her use of line and color relates vividly with Graham’s “Satyric Festival Song.”

Conditions permitting, a livestreamed rehearsal of “Satyric Festival Song” from 1932 will be broadcast from the Graham Studio on Dec. 8.

After releasing that particular hoofed nightmare into the world in 1989, the French luxury house could have been content with sitting back and watching the decades of satyric chaos ensue, but no: Always innovating, Margiela refuses to rest on its impractical laurels.

According to the Vitruvius quote that forms the epigraph of Ms. Mantel’s novel, “There are three kinds of scenes, one called the tragic, second the comic, third the satyric.”

Accompaniment by the flutist Daniel James and the pianists Marko Stuparevic and Senri Oe helped give immediacy to “Satyric Festival Song,” “Maenad” and “Memory Current.”