The Dance Festival itself, without Sadler’s Wells, had its successes and left a mark on the local dance scene. The City Center was no more satisfactory, I am afraid, for the Ballet of the Opera of Paris, presented by the French National Lyric Theatre, under the auspices of the Cultural Relations Department of the French Foreign Ministry, than it would have been for the Covent Garden company. It was necessary to trim the scenery, omit much of it, and use only part of the personnel of the company at a time. But, on the other hand, it was a genuine pleasure to welcome them on their first visit to the United States and Canada. In addition to the Dance Festival Season in New York, we played highly successful engagements in Montreal, Toronto, and Chicago. The company was headed by a distinguished French _ballerina_ in the true French style, Yvette Chauviré. Other principal members of the company, all from the higher echelons of the Paris Opera, included Roger Ritz, Christiane Vaussard, Michel Renault, Alexandre Kalioujny, Micheline Bardin, and Max Bozzini, with Robert Blot and Richard Blareau as conductors. The repertoire included _Ports of Call_, Serge Lifar’s ballet to Jacques Ibert’s _Escales_; _Salad_, a Lifar work to a Darius Milhaud creation; Lifar’s setting of Ravel’s _Pavane_; _The Wise Animals_, based on the Jean de la Fontaine fables, by Lifar, to music by Francis Poulenc; _Suite in White_, from Eduardo Lalo’s _Naouma_; _Punch and the Policeman_, staged by Lifar to a score by Jolivet; _Divertissement_, cuttings from Tchaikowsky’s _The Sleeping Beauty_; _The Peri_, Lifar’s staging of the well-known ballet score by Paul Dukas; _The Crystal Palace_, Balanchine’s ballet to Bizet’s symphony, known here as _Symphony in C_; Vincent d’Indy’s _Istar_, in the Lifar choreography; _Gala Evening_, taken from Delibes’ _La Source_, by Leo Staats; Albert Aveline’s _Elvira_, to Scarlatti melodies orchestrated by Roland Manuel; André Messager’s _The Two Pigeons_, choreographed by Albert Aveline; the Rameau _Castor and Pollux_, staged by Nicola Guerra; _The Knight and the Maiden_, a two-act romantic ballet, staged by Lifar to a score by Philippe Gaubert; and _Les Mirages_, a classical work by Lifar, to music by Henri Sauguet. Serge Lifar returned to America, not to dance, but as the choreographer of the company of which he is the head.