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"Center Stage" is a program of the US Department of State (Bureau of Educational and cultural affairs), managed by the Nefa Foundation (New england foundation of the Arts), which is the selection of professional artists (music, theater, dance) from different countries of the world, that they occur during one month in the United States. 
Five countries have already participated in the program (Haiti, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Vietnam), which is in its third season; and this year they are artists from Algeria and Tanzania that will tour between July and December 2016. Msafiri and Rajab Suleiman Zawose & Kithara represent Tanzania, while Algeria will be represented by music groups and Democratoz Ifrikya Spirit and Istijmam association that shows in the theater. To recall, the Cultural Association offers Istijmam "deeply inspired experimental theater of the Algerian popular culture." The group proposes Democratoz meanwhile a rock-reggae music mixed with different musical styles and tunes here and there, like the Gnawa or Afrobeat. The texts of Democratoz address various topics related to youth and to the Algerian reality. As for the musical training Ifrikya Spirit, it was created in 2009 by Chakib Bouzidi, and released at the beginning of his first album. Consisting of eight songs in this album, traditional African music and the Gnaoua coexist harmoniously in a style rooted in tradition but remains open to the sounds and also on instruments and modern styles. Moreover, the group will perform on August 27 next at the close of the 8th International Festival of Music Diwane, scheduled from August 22 to 27 at the Said-Mekbel outdoor theater Riadh El Feth,.