The phrase "a stage held" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to an event or performance that took place on a stage, but the wording is awkward and unclear.
Example: "During the festival, a stage held various performances throughout the day."
Alternatives: "a stage featuring" or "a stage hosting".
Waiting for the press to finish assembling in the Media Centre, he sits on a stage, holds the trophy like a book, and reads it.
Mr. Robbins, above, who warms up his audience by noisily eating a light bulb, performs on a stage holding many cardboard file boxes and one large, coffin-shaped vat, which will at one point contain a theatergoer.
It signals the beginning of bee season, a long nationwide winnowing process that starts with the 10 million kids who enter class bees in December, passes through countless district and regional bees in the spring and concludes at the National Spelling Bee in late May, leaving a lone speller standing on a stage, holding a jug-handled trophy in clammy hands.
In a slow duet that followed, now with no object between them, the two men moved together with extreme intimacy — yet only once, briefly, brought their naked groins to meet and only once, at a late stage, held each other's gaze.
Schalke missed out on the chance to secure a place in the knockout stage, held to a 1-1 draw in Sparta Prague.
England had at one stage held a five-point advantage but there was a certain sense of inevitability when New Zealand cranked up the pressure at the death, Maria Tutaia netting with the final act of a dramatic duel.
In a role reversal from the previous season, Celtic had at one stage held a seven-point lead over Rangers, only to squander their advantage in the closing weeks.
The six candidates on stage held a moment of silence before the debate began and then stood almost unanimously against the Senate confirming any Obama nominee to replace him in the next 11 months.
Lit by flaming torches, one at each corner of the stage, held by a sentinel dancer and casting flickering golden shadows on bare skin, the opening duet is one of the most purely beautiful things McGregor has made.
