West Valley Dance Company

Over the next five years the West Valley Dance Cats, later known as the West Valley Dance Company (WVDC), continued to grow and expand to include Dance Kittens (four-to-six-year-olds), Tom Cats (all boys hip hop), and All Stars (a high school team). The team continued to enjoy much success at regional competitions as well as national contests in Vegas. WVDC became known for big production routines that included up to 80 dancers.

With over 100 performance/competition team members, in the spring of 2015 we realized that we could not handle our continued growth if we did not seek studio space outside of the Action Day Primary Plus schools. Accordingly, that April, we signed the lease on our first studio at 1226 S. Bascom Avenue. The location was perfect for us because it was near our elementary and middle schools and was central to our preschools.

We wanted to make the studio unlike any other dance studio around, so we paid particular attention to the design and aesthetic. Our goal was to have a space that would make the dancers feel special as well as being a nice place for parents to watch and for the dancers to do their homework. We chose a Tiffany Blue and silver color scheme and applied it throughout the studio. White-tufted sparkly benches lining the reception area, glass doorknobs, silver-patterned wallpaper in each studio, and beautiful crystal chandeliers were just a few of the signature design details.

On June 15, 2015, the West Valley Dance Company opened, offering classes in ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, lyrical, adult tap, ballet, Zumba, and Pilates. In addition, all our preschool studios were remodeled to match the new motif and adopted the new name.

In February 2016 we opened our second studio location in Willow Glen, right next door to our newly acquired Action Day Primary Plus infant center properties on Lincoln Avenue.

In June 2016, West Valley had its annual show at the CPA, presenting the story of Peter Pan; this included a flying cast. We had so many dancers that we had to produce three shows, a first for us.

Also in June 2016, we were given the opportunity to lease the unit two doors down from our Bascom studio. Because we had already outgrown our first studio, we were ecstatic about acquiring the new space. We built one large dance studio (Studio 3) and a dance boutique, which we called West Valley Dance Boutique. The boutique and studio opened on August 6, just over a month after we had acquired the space, to much success.

June 2017 was an exciting month for us. Not only had we decided to produce a show we had never done before, Toy Story, we decided to write an original script and have our main characters miked up and using their real voices (another first for us). We even managed to include an Action Day classroom in scene 3, complete with hanging art created by our Moorpark JrK class.

Also in June 2017, we had the opportunity to expand northward to Mountain View on the El Camino Real. On August 29, 2017, West Valley opened its third location in Mountain View and welcomed its first group of students. We are currently making plans to convert the space into two studios in early 2018.

September 2017 saw us gain another expansion opportunity, this time for our Willow Glen studio. The building next door had a space for lease that we could not pass up; we made it into one large dance room with a lounge in the back. Willow Glen studio 2 welcomed its first dancers in November 2017.

In January 2018, the Bascom studio once again has expanded to include a fourth studio located in the same strip mall as the current studio. The new studio primarily houses our competition dancers and make room for more recreational classes in studios 1, 2, and 3.