Center Stage introduced high quality artists from countries across the world, while supporting U.S. presenting organizations host this work.

This program concluded with Season 8 in November 2025.

how it worked

Comprehensive booking and management provided by Lisa Booth Management, Inc.

• tour scheduling
• residency planning
• marketing, promotion, and contextual materials
• artist care
• travel arrangements including visas
• federal and state taxes
• production and backline coordination
• 24/7 tour oversight

2025 PRESENTATION FEES…

$20,000 per week plus lodging; $12,500 for a half week plus lodging

• includes artist expenses, international and domestic travel, logistics, and staffing
• substantially underwritten relative to total tour costs
• may be reduced depending on overall composition of each tour and/or in-kind payments

…AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Host presenters provide venues, technical, box office and front of house services for performances and activities; local coordinating costs; local marketing and promotion; and artist hospitality (receptions, sightseeing, etc.)

past presenters 

*Presented more than one Center Stage ensemble

Academy of Music – Northampton, MA

Akron International Friendship & University of Akron – Akron, OH

Alabama Asian Cultures Foundation & Samford University – Birmingham, AL

American Dance Festival – Durham, NC*

AMP Concerts – Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, NM*

An die Musik – Baltimore, MD

Ann Arbor Summer Festival – Ann Arbor, MI

Arts Brookfield – New York, NY*

Asia Society – New York, NY*

Asia Society Texas Center – Houston, TX

The Back Room – Berkeley, CA

Barn Arts – Barnard, VT*

Bar Zanzi – Oakland, CA

Baryshnikov Arts Center – New York, NY

Bay Chamber Concerts – Rockport, ME

Boom Arts - Portland, OR*

Boothbay Opera House – Boothbay Harbor, ME

Bossa Bistro/Multiflora Productions – Washington, DC*

Boston University, World Music Fest - Boston, MA

Brooklyn Academy of Music – Brooklyn, NY

Buckman Performing and Fine Arts Center – Memphis, TN*

Bucknell University, Weis Center for the Performing Arts – Lewisburg, PA*

Bumbershoot Festival – Seattle, WA

The Capitol Theatre – Yakima, WA

Cathedral of St. John the Divine - New York, NY

Cedar Cultural Center – Minneapolis, MN

Celebrity Series Boston/World Music CRASHarts – Boston & Cambridge, MA

Central College – Pella, IA

Chrysler Museum – Norfolk, VA

City Center, Fall for Dance – New York, NY

Classical Uprising – Portland, ME

Coker College – Hartsville, SC

College of the Holy Cross, Arts Transcending Borders – Worcester, MA

College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University – St. Joseph, MN

Colorado Mountain College – Breckenridge, CO

Connecticut College, On Stage – New London, CT*

Creative Alliance – Baltimore, MD

The Dance Hall - Kittery, ME

Dance Place – Washington, DC*

Dancing in the Streets & Casita Maria Center for the Arts and Education – The Bronx, NY

Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center for the Arts – Hanover, NH

Denmark Arts Center – Denmark, ME

Drom – New York, NY*

Double Edge Theatre – Ashfield, MA*

Duke University, Duke Performances – Durham, NC

Earshot Jazz Festival – Seattle, WA

Everett: Company, Stage, and School – Providence, RI

FirstWorks – Providence, RI*

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts – Burlington, VT*

Friars Club – New York, NY

¡Globalquerque! – Albuquerque, NM*

Global Arts Live – Cambridge, MA

The Grammy Museum – Los Angeles, CA

Great Plains Regional Puppet Festival – West Liberty, IA

Green River Festival – Greenfield, MA

Grinnell College – Grinnell, IA

Hambridge Creative Hive/Colony Square – Atlanta, GA

Helena Presents/Myrna Loy Center for the Performing and Media Arts – Helena, MT

Hibernian Hall – Roxbury, MA

Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital - Washington, DC

Howard University – Washington, DC*

Huntington Arts Council – Huntington, NY*

Indiana University – Bloomington, IN

Indo-American Association of Houston – Houston, TX

Inner-City Muslim Action Network – Chicago, IL

Intercultural Journeys - Philadelphia, PA

International Festival of Arts & Ideas – New Haven, CT

Irving Arts Center – Irving, TX

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival – Becket, MA

Joe's Pub at the Public Theater – New York, NY*

Johnson County Community College – Overland Park, KS

Joshua Tree Music Festival – Joshua Tree, CA*

Juniata College, Halbritter Center for the Performing Arts – Huntingdon, PA

Kelly-Strayhorn Theater – Pittsburgh, PA

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – Washington, DC*

Lafayette College, Williams Center for the Arts – Easton, PA

La MaMa ETC – New York, NY

Le Mondo – Baltimore, MD*

(Le) Poisson Rouge/Ariz, Inc. – New York, NY*

Lebanon Opera House – Lebanon, NH

Levitt Pavilion – Dayton, OH*

Leeward Community College – Pearl City, HI

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts – New York City, NY*

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center – Great Barrington, MA

Madison World Music Festival – Madison, WI*

The Markaz/Pico Union Project – Los Angeles, CA

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts –North Adams, MA*

Middlesex Bandstand – Middlesex, VT

Millpond Live Festival – Holyoke, MA

Monkeyhouse Dance – Somerville, MA

North Carolina State University, NCSU Live – Raleigh, NC

Numerica Center for the Arts  – Wenatchee, WA

Old Town School of Folk Music – Chicago, IL*

Outside the Box Festival – Boston, MA

Ping Chong and Company – New York, NY

Pinkerton Academy, Stockbridge Theatre – Derry, NH

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust – Pittsburgh, PA*

Portland Performing Arts Festival/One Longfellow Square – Portland, ME

Portland Ovations – Portland, ME*

REDCAT – Los Angeles, CA

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts – West Palm Beach, FL*

Reggae on the River Festival – Garberville, CA

Revolutionary Spaces – Boston, MA

Richmond Folk Festival – Richmond, VA*

River to River Festival (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) – New York, NY

Rockingham Arts and Museum Project – Bellows Falls, VT

Rockwood Music Hall – New York, NY

Roots Cultural Center – Providence, RI

Roulette/Robert Browning Assoc. – New York, NY

Sandywoods Center for the Arts – Tiverton, RI

Savannah Music Festival – Savannah, GA*

Secret Planet at Race Street Live – Holyoke, MA

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts – Scottsdale, AZ

Sheldon Theatre – Red Wing, MN

Shenandoah Conservatory – Winchester, VA

The Shrine – New York, NY

Silvermine Arts Center – New Canaan, CT

Small Town Concert Series – Chester, CT

Smith’s Olde Bar – Atlanta, GA

Sonoma State University, Green Music Center – Rohnert Park, CA*

South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center – Miami, FL*

Storefront Theater – Lyons, NE

Tau Dance Theater – Honolulu, HI

Teatro LETEA, The Clemente Center – New York, NY

Touchstone Theatre – Bethlehem, PA

Tricklock Company & University of New Mexico – Albuquerque, NM

Tropicalia/Multiflora Productions – Washington, DC*

University Musical Society – Ann Arbor, MI

University of California, ArtPower! – San Diego, CA*

University of California, CAP UCLA – Los Angeles, CA*

University of California, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts – Davis, CA

University of California, Santa Barbara Arts and Lectures – Santa Barbara, CA

University of Chicago Presents – Chicago, IL

University of Connecticut, Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts – Storrs, CT

University of Dayton – Dayton, OH

University of Denver, Lamont School of Music – Denver, CO

University of Florida Performing Arts – Gainesville, FL*

University of Hawaii, Manoa – Honolulu, HI

University of Houston/Rajput Media – Houston, TX

University of Iowa, Hancher Auditorium – Iowa City, IA*

University of Nebraska, Lied Center for the Performing Arts – Lincoln, NE

University of New Hampshire – Durham, NH

University of North Carolina, Carolina Performing Arts – Chapel Hill, NC*

University of North Carolina – Wilmington, NC

University of Richmond, Modlin Center – Richmond, VA *

University of St. Joseph – West Hartford, CT*

University of Washington, Meany Center for the Performing Arts – Seattle, WA

Upright Citizens Brigade – New York, NY

Virginia Tech Moss Center for the Arts – Blacksburg, VA*

Washington University, Edison Theater – St. Louis, MO

Wellesley College – Wellesley, MA

Wesleyan University, Center for the Arts – Middletown, CT

West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts – Claremont, NH

Wobeon – Austin, TX*

WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour – Lexington, KY*

World Music Festival Chicago – Chicago, IL*

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – San Francisco, CA