Mr. Eifman's ballet "Red Giselle" pays tribute to the ballerina Olga Spessivtseva, who died at an advanced age in 1991.
The most famous of these was the ballet "Red Detachment of Women," which has a kitschily charming score in a light-classical vein, with an array of native-Chinese sounds.
Now, these outspoken women are forging against the local head winds and heading up their own contemporary troupes, Walsh's Ballet Red and Barak's Barak Ballet.
Red ballets, red triangles, blue ballet denote tactuses of the pieces, absent notes at tactuses, error candidates of tactuses.
But a corps de ballet of red boxing gloves, a slow-motion trio of inexplicably gowned, Middle Eastern figures – these elements are at best whimsy, at worst a muddle.
After all, the "elitist" accoutrements of much high culture have a glitzy razzle-dazzle (ballet costumes! red velvet seats! traditional opera sets!) in common with the Trumpian aesthetic.
The garments lead her to imagine herself in corresponding ballets: her red leotard, for instance, puts her in mind of a fire dance.
(Will Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani now put on a tutu and toe shoes as one of the mischievous cowgirl ballerinas in Balanchine's "Western Symphony"?) It is a good bet, however, that the program will include excerpts from at least two of Balanchine's "Americana" ballets, the red-white-and-blue "Stars and Stripes" and "Who Cares?" a celebration of Manhattan and Gershwin songs.
Representing Marty's life: five different posters for the Renoir film "La Grande Illusion," a sixteenth-century crucifix, the Stratocaster played by Robbie Robertson in "The Last Waltz," a display of Japanese dolls (a gift from Akira Kurosawa), and, in a bell jar, the pair of red ballet slippers worn by Moira Shearer in "The Red Shoes," which Scorsese bought at auction in London six years ago.
Although these three films are not documentaries, each was based on a specific company: Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in "The Red Shoes," American Ballet Theater in "The Turning Point" and the Joffrey Ballet in "The Company".
A pair of sparkly red ballet slippers sits in the passenger seat.
