Blog

August 2024

Four performers dance together on an outdoor stage
Aug 29, 2024
Sasa Hsiao
Hey there, I’m Sasa Hsiao, the international producer of Resident Island Dance Theatre from Taiwan. It’s a great honor to be part of the Sixth Season of Center Stage. Even though it's been more than a...
Two women performing on stage
Aug 12, 2024
Kelsey Colcord Spitalny
June-December 2025 ­­– alumni groups return to the U.S. for independent month-long tours: Khumariyaan (Pakistan), Kurbasy (Ukraine), Mohamed Abozekry (Egypt), and Papermoon Puppet Theatre (Indonesia)...
A group of women pose together
Aug 05, 2024
Classical Uprising
In October 2023, Classical Uprising hosted Ethio Classic Quartet as part of Center Stage’s fall tour lineup. Where we are based, in lovely Portland, Maine, it was just starting to feel like fall...

July 2024

Five people, 4 in traditional Tboli clothes, posing together
Jul 15, 2024
Maddie Castillo
Filipinos love to eat. It is my firm belief that food is the singular language that each individual in a country of 7,641 islands (yes, not 7,107, contrary to popular belief) speaks. It is embedded...

May 2024

A band plays for a group of young students
May 23, 2024
Neal Copperman
From the moment we first heard about Center Stage, we knew it was a program destined to come to New Mexico with AMP Concerts. As an isolated, beautiful and often overlooked state with an engaged and...