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Arthur Murray Long Beach

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Belmont Shore KinderCare
E Las Lomas Street

was an absolute success! We were able to explore the beautiful city, dance on a boat, eat some poutine, and be the life of the party. Our LB ladies represented the studio fantastically 🐝 bringing home the 2nd place TOP STUDIO trophy 🏆. So proud of them and the growth in their dancing. Let’s go Long Beach!

03/19/2024

💫 Our favorite Dance O Rama is coming up! Unique DOR presents the Magical Kingdom with our Friday night show!🎉

Help Anthony fight brain cancer!, organized by Stephanie Zellhoefer

03/01/2024

Anthony Encina, our dear friend and Arthur Murray family member ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Help Anthony fight brain cancer!, organized by Stephanie Zellhoefer Anthony Encina is a man who knows how to live. Whether it's traveling the world … Stephanie Zellhoefer needs your support for Help Anthony fight brain cancer!

02/23/2024

Dear Arthur Murray Friends,

One of our Arthur Murray Family Members, Anthony Encina, had brain surgery to remove a mass yesterday, Feb. 22. The surgery went well and he is recovering nicely, but there is a recovery period with more treatments necessary and he will be out for a while. We don’t at this stage know how long, but we’ll keep you posted.

For those of you who don’t know Anthony, he has been a dedicated, hardworking, talented and all around wonderful teacher with our studios for over 17 years. His kindness and friendly, fun and sassy personality has touched everyone he’s come in contact with at the studios. Our best wishes and prayers go out to him on his road to recovery. ❤️‍🩹

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02/06/2024

🥇🏆 Congratulations to Gonzalo and Kate for receiving the Top Studio in Area 7 accolades this weekend!! Gooooo Long Beach!! 🎉🎉

11/11/2023

What a MAGICAL Grad Night! Thank you to everyone who showed up for our Harry Potter themed party! ❤️💙💚💛

10/30/2023

🎃 👻 About last Friday…. Happy Halloween Long Beach fam woo!!

10/11/2023

Horror themed fun at our party last Friday!! We’re kicking off October spooky style! 🎃 👻

09/25/2023

💙DENIM DENIM DENIM!! 💙

09/22/2023

Matchcomp in Temecula was a blast!!! Congrats dancers on representing Long Beach with you fantastic dancing!! 💛 🖤💛🖤💛🎉

07/28/2023

Saturday at Unique DOR. So proud of our studio, students, and instructors for dancing their best and really representing Long Beach.

07/25/2023

Friday at Unique DOR!!! We danced danced danced! Great job all you amazing LBAM dancers. It all happened and we lived to tell the tale.

07/22/2023

Our Zombie Formation was a hit!! Thank you to all our Zombies and survivors for joining us in the Long Beach Formation!

07/18/2023

So proud of our instructor Alex dancing in the same gender comp at Unique DOR 2023!

Ready to dance!!!

05/27/2023

Last nights TRL party was a huge success!! Thank you to all who danced into the weekend with us!! Enjoy your weekend and see you Tuesday!! 🎉💃🏻🕺🏻🤗🎊 🎶

05/26/2023

The amazing Ivanka is joining us for *drumroll please* 🎊🎉Unique DOR!!!

05/13/2023

We’re very excited to announce that the awesome Mac will be dancing with us into his first Unique DOR!! 🎉🎊🕺🏻💃🏻🌟

05/13/2023

Dancing runs in the family!! Christy and Lucas will be representing Long Beach at Unique DOR!! 🎊🎉🤗 💖

05/12/2023

Medal Ball Graduates and a big Welcome to Bronze to all our new students!! 👩‍🎓 👨‍🎓🎉👏🎊

05/12/2023

The fabulous Jen and Eric are going to their very first Unique Dance O Rama with the Long Beach team!!! 🎉🎊🤗

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Who Was Arthur Murray?

Arthur Murray’s life story is one of the quintessential American Dream. Born in a small town in Austria-Hungary in 1895 and raised in New York City, Arthur built a dancing empire from humble beginnings. What he initially saw as a great means to overcome his shy nature and meet girls transformed a modest and hard-working.

In 1925, he began selling branded dance lessons and launched the first franchise dance school. The business continued to expand steadily, and by 1940, Arthur Murray was a household name.

Early Life

Born Moses Teichman, young Arthur accompanied his mother Sarah to America in 1897, where they joined his father and settled into life in the Lower East Side. Being self-conscious of his tall and lanky stature, Arthur accepted a popular friends’ assistance and through him learned his very first dance steps, practicing and refining his moves at weddings and other social functions.

Through dance, Arthur discovered a joy and self-confidence, as well as a passion that he would share with countless others for the rest of his life. By the age of 17, Arthur was studying under the popular dance duo Vernon and Irene Castle, and teaching dance classes of his own at night.

A Star Begins to Shine

While studying commerce at the Georgia School of Technology, Arthur taught ballroom dancing at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta. Arthur also organized the world’s first “radio dance” in 1925. 150 people, mainly students, collected on the top of the Capital City Club to dance to the sounds from a live broadcast of a band performing on the Georgia Tech campus. The dance was a sensation, and people took notice of Arthur.

While Arthur was having a wonderful time spreading his love of dance, he realized he wanted to share his dance knowledge with as many people as possible. Inspired by a casual comment by a friend about teaching people to dance and making money from it, Arthur created a system of teaching people dance steps through the mail by sending out kinetoscopes, which created the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film revealing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter. From these, individuals were able to mimic the dances portrayed. Arthur also distributed drawings he made of sequential footprints, which people placed on the floor and thusly learned dance steps that way. Within a couple years, 500,000 of these dance lessons had been sold. Arthur also began franchising dance lessons, teaching prospective dance instructors for the Statler Hotel chain.

On April 24, 1925, Arthur married Kathryn Kohnfelder, and the dancing couple soon gave birth to twin daughters, Jane and Phyllis. Encouraged by the positive feedback the couple received concerning their dance instruction style, the Murrays opened their first dance studio and began teaching the public in their own studio space. The Arthur Murray slogan was, “If you can walk, we can teach you how to dance.”

Everybody Wants to Dance

Business soared, particularly in 1938 and 1939, when Arthur selected little-known dances “The Lambeth Walk” and “The Big Apple” and turned them into dance trends. These dance crazes were taught in hotels across the country, and Arthur Murray became a household name.

After WWII, the Arthur Murray business grew more by offering lessons for Latin dances, a craze that was on the rise at that time. He went to Cuba to teach dancing and had dances broadcast there throughout the 1950s.

It wasn’t just teens and housewives following dance crazes and interested in lessons, Arthur Murray had a number of celebrity clients, including Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duke of Windsor, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Barbara Hutton, Jack Dempsey, and Elizabeth Arden.

The Murrays retired in 1964, but remained cultural fixtures with the expansion of their dance studios and their presence on popular game shows through the 1970s. On March 3, 1991, Arthur passed away at the age of 95 in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2007, Arthur Murray was posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Dance’s Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York.

There are 0ver 260 Arthur Murray Dance Studios in 21 countries across the globe, each operated by specialty instructors whom instill in their students the confidence and joy dance can bring into their lives. From his humble beginnings, Arthur Murray became the most popular dance instructor of all time, and his legacy is carried on by all the instructors and students who live life dancing, the Arthur Murray way.

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Amazing times dancing the day away at the Sweetheart showcase with our Long Beach AM FAM 🤪💃🏻❤️ #arthurmurraylifestyle #a...

Friday’s In House Showcase at the Costa Mesa Studio!! We had a fabulous time starting off the New Year with this event! ...

First Party of the New Year! Ended with a goodnight foxy 🕺🏻💃🏻🎉 #arthurmurray #newyear #dancing #arthurmurraydancing #dan...

Our very own Jan Moose got in on the holiday fun with her very own Christmas Tango! It’s her very first virtual performa...

Long Beach’s very own Lynne Wainfan in her performance of “A Christmas Carol”#longbeacharthurmurray #arthurmurraylifesty...

Join us tomorrow at 7pm for the Murray Christmas Special! We have routines from students and professionals in our area f...

Don’t forget to join Tuesdays progressive Argentine Tango class 😁🕺🏻💃🏻

Website

https://arthurmurraylongbeach.com/

Address

5236 E Los Altos Plaza
Long Beach, CA
90815

Opening Hours

Monday	2pm - 8:30pm
Tuesday	2pm - 8:30pm
Wednesday	2pm - 8:30pm
Thursday	2pm - 8:30pm
Friday	2pm - 8:30pm

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