Alec Mazo
| Alec Mazo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 5, 1978 Gomel, Soviet Union |
| Education | B.S. Cognitive Science; MBA |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley Stanford University |
| Height | 5' 11" (1.80 m) |
| Television | Dancing with the Stars |
| Spouse(s) | Edyta Śliwińska (2007-present) |
| Children | Michael Alexander (b. 2014) |
Alec Mazo (born April 5, 1978) is a Belarusian American producer and former professional dancer. He became known for his participation in the American edition of the reality television series Dancing with the Stars, the first season of which he won with partner Kelly Monaco. He participated in five seasons of the television show and four DWTS tours.
Mazo was born in Gomel, Belarusian SSR into a Jewish family. He has been dancing since he was 5 years old. At age 12, he immigrated from the Soviet Union to San Antonio, Texas, and later to San Francisco, where his former engineer mother, Natasha, began a dance school. Mazo began studying dancing there at 16 in order to improve his socialization skills with girls, and to ease his back problems.
He studied computer science, and then cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley, in the hopes of one day becoming a dance teacher. After DWTS, Mazo went to Stanford University to get his MBA. He currently runs a production company specializing in live stage entertainment and television reality formats.
Mazo worked as the CEO of the Genesis Dance Sport studio in San Francisco. Expanding the studio into Los Angeles has been one of his goals. He has one brother, Genya, who's also a ballroom dancer and has performed on the Dancing with the Stars tour. Alec Mazo is married to his long-time dancing partner dancer Edyta Śliwińska, a native of Poland. The couple welcomed a son, Michael Alexander Mazo, on January 4, 2014.
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