EFDSS has co-operated with Ballet Rambert in the past, and Dame Ninette de Valois (she and Rambert were enormously influential on the development of ballet in Britain) was a Patron of the Society; the connection with ballet and contemporary dance is of long standing.

I am glad that the interregnum is over. We should not forget Hazel Miller's excellent work as Chief Executive in getting the Society on a sound business footing and implementing the new publishing programme, but now we look to a new stage of development, which I hope will be both interesting and productive.