Mission
Les Etes de la Danse is an Annual Dance Festival that began in July 2005 with an extremely well received engagement of the San Francisco Ballet. Addressing the lack of major performing arts presentations during the summer in Paris, the festival brings the world's greatest companies to enthusiastic audiences in the European capital of dance. In recognition of the festival's close ties to the American dance community, the American Friends of Les Etes de la Danse ("AFLED"), a U.S. based tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization was established in 2012 to provide support for the festival's presentation of American companies and artists.