THE CHIEF

It’s a strange dance, and dance-writing landscape without Francis Mason, who died last week. What an extraordinary amount of important writing on dance saw the light thanks to him! I’ll never forget sending over-the-transom my first submission to Ballet Review in 1981 — an article on Tanaquil Le Clercq. I certainly didn’t expect it to be published, but I sent it in anyway. I’ll be writing more about him for BR.