We are the world

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Title

We are the world

Collection

New York City Ballet Video Archive

Names

Martins, Peter, 1946- (Choreographer)
Martins, Peter, 1946- (Dancer)
Richie, Lionel (Composer)
Jackson, Michael, 1958-2009 (Composer)
Soto, Jock (Dancer)
Lopez, Lourdes (Dancer)
Saland, Stephanie (Dancer)
Nichols, Kyra (Dancer)
D'Amboise, Christopher (Dancer)
Duell, Joseph (Dancer)
Calegari, Maria (Dancer)
Watts, Heather (Dancer)
Cook, Bart (Dancer)
Farrell, Suzanne, 1945- (Dancer)
McBride, Patricia, 1942- (Dancer)
New York City Ballet (Performer)
School of American Ballet (Performer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1985-04-25

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-4656

Genres

Filmed Performances
Filmed Dance

Notes

Creation/Production Credits: [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by Peter Martins ; music by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson.
Content: Cast information from a review by Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times, Apr. 25, 1985.
Content: Video also contains ca. 7 min. of a b&w recording, very poor visual quality, of Peter Martins' Calcium light night.
Performers: Danced by New York City Ballet: Jock Soto, Lourdes Lopez, Stephanie Saland, Kyra Nichols, Christopher d'Amboise, Joseph Duell, Maria Calegari, Heather Watts, Bart Cook, Suzanne Farrell, Patricia McBride, Peter Martins, others; with students of the School of American Ballet.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, N.Y., on April 23, 1985.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (U-Matic) (16 min., 9 sec.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPY03-F292
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15773725
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 80a9e3a0-8667-0138-a463-05f3ad9340bf

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "We are the world" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1985. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/80a9e3a0-8667-0138-a463-05f3ad9340bf

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1985). We are the world Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/80a9e3a0-8667-0138-a463-05f3ad9340bf

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "We are the world" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/80a9e3a0-8667-0138-a463-05f3ad9340bf

Wikipedia citation

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