Alec Mazo

Alec Mazo (born April 5, 1978) is an American investor who works at DGA Capital. 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, produced live stage shows for casinos and executive produced a 70 city live stage tour in collaboration with Troika Entertainment (producer of Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Annie).

Not to be confused with the similarly named dancer Alec Lazo.

Alec Mazo
Born (1978-04-05) April 5, 1978
Gomel, Soviet Union
EducationB.S. Cognitive Science; MBA
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Stanford University
TelevisionDancing with the Stars
Height5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Spouse
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(m. 2007)​
Children2

Early life

Mazo was born just 50 kilometers from Chernobyl, Ukraine into a Jewish family.[1][2] 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, Natalia, opened a dance school. Mazo helped run the school to make ends meet. His family moved from the former USSR as refugees, with nothing in their pockets.

Education and personal life

He studied computer science, and then cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley . After DWTS, Mazo went to Stanford University to get his Alfred P. Sloan Masters in Management. He ran a production company specializing in live stage entertainment and television reality formats. He is currently a general partner at DGA Capital, investing in the capital markets.

When he was a teenager, 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.[3] 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 have a son born in 2014 and a daughter born in 2017.[4]

Career

Mazo appeared in the 1998 movie Dance With Me. Mazo turned professional shortly before producers of Dancing with the Stars began their search for dancers to star on the show.[3]

Mazo won the first season of Dancing with the Stars with his partner, Kelly Monaco.

Mazo returned to the ballroom on March 19 for Season 4, this time partnered with former supermodel Paulina Porizkova, but were the first couple eliminated.[5]

Mazo appeared on the fifth season of Dancing with the Stars. Mazo and his partner, supermodel Josie Maran, were eliminated on September 26, 2007, after the first week of competition.

Mazo competed for the title with partner, Grammy Award-winning singer, Toni Braxton in Season 7 of Dancing with the Stars.[6] After six dances, Braxton and Mazo became the fifth couple to be eliminated from the season.

In Season 9, Mazo was paired with Olympic swimmer, Natalie Coughlin. They were the fifth couple to be eliminated.

Season Partner Place
1 Kelly Monaco 1st
4 Paulina Porizkova 11th
5 Josie Maran 12th
7 Toni Braxton 8th
9 Natalie Coughlin 10th

Dancing with the Stars performances

With celebrity partner Kelly Monaco

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Waltz/ "I Have Nothing" 5 4 4 No Elimination
2 Rumba/ "Hero" 5 6 6 Safe
3 Jive/ "Footloose" 6 7 8 Safe
4 Samba/ "Bailamos"
Viennese Waltz/ "I Got You Babe"		 9
No		 9
Scores		 8
Given		 Safe
5 Foxtrot/ "Don't Know Why"
Paso Doble/ "Bamboleo"		 8
9		 7
8		 7
8		 Bottom Two
6 Samba/ "Bailamos"
Freestyle/ "Let's Get Loud"		 7
10		 9
10		 9
10		 WON
Dance-Off Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Lady Marmalade"
Quickstep/ "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend"
Freestyle/ "Get The Party Started"		 7
9
8		 9
7
8		 9
8
9		 Second Place

With celebrity partner Paulina Porizkova

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Foxtrot/ "Too Darn Hot" 6 6 7 No elimination
2 Mambo/ "La Bamba" 7 7 7 Eliminated

With celebrity partner Josie Maran

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Foxtrot/ "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" 6 5 5 Eliminated

With celebrity partner Toni Braxton

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1A Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Smooth" 7 7 8 Safe
1B Quickstep/ "Blue Skies" 8 7 8 Safe
2 Rumba/ "I Can't Make You Love Me" 7 8 8 Safe
3 Viennese Waltz/ "Für Elise" 8 7 7 Safe
4 Samba/ "De Donde Soy" 7 7 8 Safe
5 West Coast Swing/ "The Way You Make Me Feel" 7 7 8 Eliminated

With celebrity partner Natalie Coughlin

Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Salsa/ "1+1=2"
Foxtrot/ "The Best Is Yet to Come"		 7 6
8		 6 Safe
2 Quickstep/ "I Want You Back" 7 7 7 Safe
3 Rumba/ "In The Air Tonight" 9 8 9 Safe
4 Bolero/ "Better in Time" 8 8 8 Safe
5 Paso Doble/ "American Woman"
Group Hustle/ "The Hustle"		 7
No		 8
Scores		 7
Given		 Eliminated

References
  1. Rocchio, Christopher (April 21, 2009). "'Dancing with the Stars' letting viewers select new professional dancer". realitytvworld.com. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  2. Bloom, Nate (December 11, 2007). "Dancing with the Stars of David". Archived from the original on July 12, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  3. Carol Banks Weber. "News for the week of 19-Sep-2005"; Soap Zone
  4. "Alec Mazo & Edyta Sliwinska Welcome Baby Boy | Access Hollywood". www.accesshollywood.com. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014.
  5. "The Stars Align for a fourth season of ABC's hit alternative series, Dancing With the Stars". abc.go.com. 2007. Retrieved February 21, 2007.
  6. "Announcing the Stars". abc.go.com. 2008. Archived from the original on April 18, 2009. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
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