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Russian-born dancer Alec Mazo started dancing at the tender age of five. His family moved to the United States when he was twelve years old, and this was where his mother set up a dance studio. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cognitive Science, and has become responsible for maintaining the biggest youth ballroom dance school in California. Mazo appeared in the movie, Dance with Me, with singer and actress
Vanessa Williams , and has earned several dance titles with his dance partner and fiance
Edyta Sliwinska .
Mazo and Sliwinska competed against each other during Season 1 of Dancing with the Stars when Mazo was paired with soap actress
Kelly Monaco . Due to high scores from the judges, Monaco and Mazo became the first winners of Dancing with the Stars, despite the fact fan voting had picked runner-up
John O'Hurley and Charlotte Jorgensen as the winners. Mazo and Sliwinska competed against each other again on the fourth and fifth seasons of Dancing with the Stars, where Mazo was paired with former model
Paulina Porizkova and supermodel
Josie Maran respectively.
Dancing with the Stars Season 5:
Josie Maran and Alec Mazo
Season 4:
Alec Mazo and Paulina Porizkova
Season 1:
Alec Mazo and Kelly Monaco
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