Mary Manzella Productions

When music comes on, Mary moves. Mary Manzella is recognized nationally as a master of every aspect of dance: competition, performance, choreography, teaching, and judging. Mary is a National Swing Dance Champion and has national awards for Best Showmanship, Best Choreography, Best Footwork, and Top Female Teacher. Her teaching reaches people from Boston to Honolulu and from age five to ninety-five. Mary is a two-time judge at the U.S. Open National Swing Dance Championships and a judge at other prestigious events. The California Swing Dance Hall of Fame recognizes Mary’s achievements, as she is a Hall of Fame inductee and a member of the advisory board. 

Anyone who has taken lessons from Mary has seen her case full of trophies. Mary received a compliment recently at Dallas Dance when a dancer smiled and exclaimed, "You're a legend!" Mary was especially honored when the San Diego swing dance community gave her a tribute for her dancing and for her contributions to the dance community. Mary is honored by the admiration and respect that she receives in the dance world, and she uses it to share with people the wonderful gift of dance.

Mary is especially known for her teaching—from basics to advanced. In one competition in San Diego, five of Mary’s students placed in the first, second, and third slots. Mary shows her students the ropes in major national competitions. Mary's teaching philosophy is to teach people how to have fun dancing to any type of music at any place in any atmosphere.  

Mary has become the Dance Director at the San Diego Swing Dance Club. Mary developed for the club the most-fun and most-effective beginning class available anywhere to teach people the fun of West Coast Swing. The Swing Club has become known as a fun place to learn to dance, and both class attendance and club attendance has increased by leaps and bounds.

Above all, Mary dances—Swing, Argentine Tango, and all forms of Ballroom. When music comes on, Mary moves.