Rosalie, Alva story to be retold through estate sale memorabilia
Shortly before the start of World War II, Rosalie and Alva married and became dancing partners so they could work together. Photo courtesy of Alva’s Dance. The legendary ballet dancer Bronislava Nijinska expressed astonishment at Alva’s leaping ability. Photo courtesy of Alva’s Dance. Imagine “La La Land,” but with a true Hollywood ending. Instead of the two young, starstruck lovers going their separate ways, they stay together and live happily ever after. That’s the true story told in the documentary “Dancing Hearts: The Rosalie and Alva Story,” directed and filmed by Allan Kaufman. The Rosalie and Alva story will be retold this month, in a different format, through the estate sale of costumes, photographs and movie and dance memorabilia the Rancho Palos Verdes couple collected during their Hollywood years and during the half century they taught dance at the Rosalie & Alva School of Ballet and Allied Arts in San Pedro. Rosalie died in 2011, at age 88 and Alva in 2015, at age 99. Rosalie Ann Figge was born in 1922 in Boonville Missouri, where she took dance lessons at Laura Estelle Myer Studio of Dancing and Dramatics until she was 10 when her family moved to Los Angeles. She went…
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