Meg Booth is the director of dance programming for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  As Director of Dance Programming, she oversees the presentation of at least eight weeks of world class ballet and multiple premiere modern and contemporary dance companies each year, including Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, The Bolshoi Ballet, The Marinsky Ballet, New York City Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Shen Wei Dance Arts.  In her tenure as Director of Dance Programming, The Kennedy Center Dance Program produced critically acclaimed festivals, such as Ballet Across America, a celebration of the breadth of artistry in ballet companies across the United States and Protégés: The International Ballet Festival, a showcase of the world’s most prestigious ballet academies and their distinctive styles of training.
 
In addition, Booth serves as director of The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, The Kennedy Center’s own ballet company under the artistic direction of Ms. Suzanne Farrell. Recently celebrating its 10th season, the highly lauded company performs works by Ms. Farrell’s mentors - Balanchine, Robbins, Bejart - and through the Balanchine Preservation Initiative has reconstructed and preserved nine Balanchine ballets not seen in decades.
 
Booth joined The Kennedy Center’s Arts Management Fellows Program in 2003 and continued as Marketing Manager of the Center for three years before moving to Dance Programming.  Prior to joining the Center, she worked as General Manager of Twyla Tharp Dance, Company Manager of White Oak Dance Project under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov, and served in the dance division of IMG Artists.  
 
Booth has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame. 

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