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Alvas School of Ballet and Allied Arts
San Pedro, CA

My Bio: Rosalie and Alva started their career as a dance team in 1941, the year they were married. They were some of the pioneers of television, dancing on the Spade Coolie show on KTLA with Stan Chambers, and performing in the Radebough Melodiers. They danced at the Coconut Grove, Tom Brenamen's, Biltmore Hotel, Florentine Gardens, many theaters, and several movie studios together. They worked as a team from 1941 to 1956, traveling in this country and abroad. Performing in Yugoslavia in 1956, Rosalie became pregnant with her second son. In 1952, her husband built her this beautiful dance studio and theater in San Pedro, his first port of embarkation in America. They settled down to a teaching career and performed in their own productions. Today they live a quiet life together on their three-quarters of an acre of land in Rancho Palos Verdes. Alva is 93 and Rosalie is 86. They have just celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary! Alva's offers a wide selection of ballet barres, ballet equipment, studio design and set-up, dancewear, dance floors, "Marley" vinyl and Matlay® dance floor surfaces, portable dance floors, floating floors, echo stopping sound panels, Harlequin dance floors, portable mylar mirrors, rosin boxes, rentals, dance class music, professional-grade variable speed audio equipment. Alva's Mirrors as seen on the Today Show See the Video Ballet Barres Our free standing barres are independently adjustable allowing dancers on opposite sides to have a barre set at their own height (31" to 45".) Alva's Free-Standing Barres are the most stable and easily adjustable portable ballet barres available! They can be taken apart in seconds without tools for transport and storage. Alvas also offers a variety of wall mounted barres ..... Ballet Barres Dance Floors Alva's Floating Sub Floor allows you to build your own studio floor for a fraction of a contractor-installed price! Total sub floor material cost, including our kit, is about $2.50 to $3.00 per square foot. Step-by-step instructions enable anyone with basic carpentry skills to install it. An average size studio (about 1,000 square feet) takes two people about five days to complete...Dance Floors