The server was apologetic but firm — the dancer needed loud music — but told us it would not last long.
Now he was giving a pep talk to the dancers, friendly but firm.
(Burke) Mark Morris Dance Group (Friday and Saturday) Mr. Morris brings his likable dancers and firm insistence on live music to Durham, N.C., for the final weekend of the American Dance Festival.
Despite his quiet demeanor, he had firm ideas about featuring young dancers from within the company rather than guest stars.
Like a lot of early modern dancers, he had firm beliefs about how dance, and beauty, emerged naturally from the human body.
In the film, called "Dancer," Mr. Hübbe is firm: "No, no, no.
In one panel discussion, Michael Cole, a former dancer, remarked, "It's my firm belief that Merce was the most musical choreographer who ever lived".
Chanel's loose-fitting knit swimsuits were "potentially dangerous," writes the dance historian Sarah Woodcock; a male dancer would have trouble keeping "a firm grip on his partner in the complex throws and catches".
Amy Cueva runs the very successful design firm Mad*Pow, and is also a professional level belly dancer who will talk about how dance forms a major part of her full and well-rounded life.
When it comes to women, Ballet Theater seems to agree with the first sentence of Arnold Haskell's 1934 classic book, "Balletomania": "It is my firm belief that human society is divided into three distinct castes: Russian dancers, dancers and very ordinary people".
