About this vendor
My name is Liza and I'm extremely grateful to have helped hundreds of engaged couples learn a fun and memorable wedding dance! I'd love to talk with you about your vision for your first dance. Please reach out to learn more.
I truly adore working with wedding couples; it's a pure joy to be around such blissful people and to use my creativity. I teach beginners as well as those interested in a challenge, such as lifts, dips, and mashups. I also team up with my enthusiastic, kind, and gifted dance instructor Mark Pablo for a more in depth experience with enhanced choreography at no additional charge. We teach at 2 locations: North Park and Kearny Mesa and are open 6 days a week.
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Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Music Genres
- Arabic
- Bluegrass
- Classical
- Country
- Dance
- Disco
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Reviews
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We feel so lucky to have had Mark and Liza as our dance instructors for our August 2025 wedding! They were so helpful, kind, and encouraging, and they really made us feel comfortab...
le getting out in front of our family. We wanted our song choice and dance moves to match our love story, and they absolutely delivered—it was perfect.
Our guests loved the dance, and we still get compliments on it to this day! Honestly, we wish we could take dance lessons with them all the time. Thank you so much, Liza and Mark, for making our first dance so special and memorable!
Liza & Mark are the best! They truly put their hearts into helping us create a first dance we absolutely loved. We had so much joy learning and dancing with them!
Excellent instructor especially for me who had two left feet going into this event. Liza choreographed a wonderful routine to a song we brought her.
We had an absolutely amazing experience with our wedding dance lessons. Liza & Mark are phenomenal - both incredibly talented, with dance styles and personalities that complemented...
each other perfectly. Together they created a fun, supportive, and truly personalized experience for us.
Every session involved live choreography tailored specifically to us, blending multiple dance styles in a way that felt thoughtful, seamless, and uniquely "us". We came in with zero dance experience yet everyone who saw us dance was asking if we had danced before and were showering us with compliments.
They were so easy to work with, endlessly patient, and made the entire process enjoyable and stress-free. We couldn't recommend them more highly. Our lessons have been our favorite part of preparing for the wedding because of Liza & Mark.
Liza and Mark were amazing teachers to work with! They were able to choreograph and teach our first dance in 4 lessons when we started extremely close to our wedding date, which wa...
s so appreciated. They were easy to communicate with and to schedule times to meet with. We had a lot of fun in every session! Everyone at our wedding was so impressed! I would highly recommend to anyone who wants to take lessons for their wedding dance.
We had a wonderful experience learning from Liza and Mark.
Liza and Mark were so amazing and helpful in coming up with a dance for us. We did our dance in Chinese and they took the time to learn about the translation of lyrics into English...
to know what moves to put at what part of the song. Just on the first lesson, they came up with a good chunk of our dance despite it being the first time they heard the song. The introductory class includes some basic dance lessons which was helpful. They were super open to our feedback and tried to incorporate things we saw on social media that we liked. The dance ended up being great and we couldn’t thank them enough!
Liza took the two of us from complete amateurs to getting cheers at the wedding in just a few lessons. She was extremely helpful, enthusiastic, and flexible around our schedules. W...
e got exactly the dance we wanted with her help and we could not have done it without her!
Liza, and her dance partner Marc, were both friendly, great instructors, and helped us pull together a great first dance. We were skeptical over committing to dance lessons and it'...
s some of our favorite memories from the wedding planning process. We highly recommend Liza and Marc!
Liza and Marc were friendly, encouraging and professional. Their expertise made us feel confident for our first dance. We did seven lessons and had a choreographed piece! Highly re...
commend!
Liza was flexible in scheduling lessons and was very helpful in providing a list of recommended first dance wedding songs. Liza and Mark were great making us comfortable learning! ...
They also mentally prepared us for the day of the wedding and our guests commented that they loved the dance and looked liked we had fun!
Initially, I didn’t think I’d be able to do even a basic choreography but I’m glad we tried this out!
Liza and her colleague Mark were amazing and helped us create the first dance of our dreams! We always had fun at our classes and they made sure to make us feel comfortable as begi...
nners. All of our guests raved about our first dance. Thank you Liza and Mark!
The best teachers ever! Liza & Mark are extremely personable and have so much experience. My husband and I had so much fun learning from them. I had some experience in dancing (but...
not in partner dancing) and my husband had no experience AT ALL (literally two left feet). However, Liza & Mark were able to break things down for both of us to understand. We literally left our guests in awe after our first dance. Pricing is also extremely competitive compared to other places we looked at. Weddings can be expensive but this is worth every penny! If you’re on the fence of doing a choreographed dance, do it and hire them!!!
Liza & Mark was absolutely amazing! We had a great experience & felt very confident when our sessions was over. We look forward to dancing with you guys again soon❤️
Liza and Mark helped me immeasurably with our first dance. I’m a dancing noob. Hopelessly out of touch with modern music. I was petrified of my first dance at my wedding. With pati...
ence and constructive criticism, as well as hands-on demonstrations and video feedback, Liza and Mark coached me and my then fiancée on dancing styles, helped us land on our song, and over 8 lessons, transformed me from a nervous wreck into a confident and even excited fiancé who looked forward to dancing in front of my family and friends. The first dance went excellently, everyone was impressed, and the money spent proved well worth it. I highly recommend Liza Marians to anyone who wants to learn new dance moves, and especially to those who are afraid of and/or know they suck at dancing.
Liza and Mark work with every skill level. I loved our dance they taught us! We were involved in every decision of the dance as well. I’d recommend them any time!
We booked a few dance lessons with Liza and Mark a couple of weeks before our wedding. They were amazing to work with. In just a couple of weeks, they choreographed a perfect dance...
for our first dance and taught us the moves we needed to make our first dance so special. They were so much fun to work with and we plan to continue taking dance lessons with them in the future. I highly recommend booking Liza and Mark for your wedding dance lessons!!
Liza and Mark helped us choreograph our First Dance, from teaching us basic dance moves and stances, to when to fade the song and how to enter/leave the dance floor gracefully. The...
y were very professional and so extremely helpful for 2 non dancers. My husband and I were long distance and had very minimal time together to practice. They made the moves easy enough to remember but also elegant and romantic! We had a title of 4 dance lessons spaced out between 3 months. We are so pleased with Liza and Mark and so grateful for their help!
Liza was so great to work with. We came to her in need of a first dance that felt unique and that was also easy to learn. We enjoyed our lessons with her each time and we received ...
so many compliments about our first dance at our wedding! Highly recommend Liza for your first dance choreography needs.
We went to Dance with Liza because we wanted an amazing first dance at our wedding. Liza and Mark were both amazing and the end result was BETTER than we could have hoped for.
My...
wife and I have no experience with dance and they were super helpful and able to choreograph a dance that was perfect for the two of us. Having no dance experience, we didn’t really know what we wanted to do in our dance but Liza and Mark were able to show us some different options and move forward with our favorite moves. They were very thoughtful about the pacing, mood, and general vibe of the dance we wanted to create, and were able to help us through some challenging moves that we really wanted to do.
They were also able to work with our tight schedule and did some lessons with us at late hours.
We had so much fun learning our first dance with Liza and Mark, and would absolutely recommend them to our friends. Our first dance was one of the highlights of our wedding, and we surprised everyone (including our parents) who have never seen us dance.
My fiancé (now wife) and I took six dance lessons with Liza and Mark prior to our wedding. With minimal dance backgrounds she was able to train us to perform like we were on Dancin...
g with the Stars on our big day!
She does a phenomenal job at meeting you at your level and choreographing a dance that you can succeed at while stunning your guests. We practiced a few times a week, but she make sure to make the dance simple enough for us to feel confident.
Her choreography, patience, and love for dance is what helped us feel at east when we felt stressful. Our guests were blown away by our performance!
We are beyond grateful for our time with Liza!
Liza is super sweet and passionate about creating a quality first-dance for your wedding. My fiance' and I had hectic schedules and she was patient with us in scheduling classes t...
hat fit our busy weeks. We also had the opportunity to work with her colleague Mark who was also an excellent instructor. Overall I definitely recommend taking dance classes with Liza for the first dance at your wedding.
Liza and Mark are truly incredible dancers, teachers, and choreographers. We hired them for our 1st dance and the finished product exceeded our expectations. Their passion for danc...
e absolutely shows in their choreography and calm, encouraging teaching approach. Added bonus is having two instructors for the masculine and feminine touches, we could not have asked for a better team and will definitely be back for more dance lessons. Forever grateful for these two!
Liza is so amazing. She is so helpful and fun when teaching and very knowledgeable about her profession. We enjoyed taking classes and can’t wait to have our first dance and show o...
ur new moves!
Liza taught myself and my now husband (with two left feet) the dance of our wedding day dreams.
She is kind, patient, and really knows how to teach others. Her passion for dancing...
is brought to each class. She knew what worked for us and what didn’t.
On our wedding day we WOW’d our friends and family with a dance routine that I never imagined we could have learned.
We are so grateful!
Liza has been a fantastic teacher! To be honest I didn’t even want to do dance lessons for my wedding but she made them so fun and easy. Would recommend her to anyone!
Liza was amazing from the beginning. I loved how clear she was about her package pricing and how the dance lessons would work, which is why I chose her. It was the right choice! ...
The dance she choreographed for us is beautiful and romantic. My fiance had no prior dance training and she managed to turn him into an excellent dance lead! Our wedding is on Saturday and I feel confident that we're going to wow our guests with our amazing first dance. Thank you so much Liza!
Liza is an amazing teacher! My now husband and I took 5 lessons with her in the span of about a month and we learned so much. She made a beautiful choreography for our wedding firs...
t dance that was tailored to our song and us. Our guests enjoyed it a lot! You won’t regret at all taking lessons with her!
Liza and Mark helped us tremendously. Nick and I are two 6’+ tall and not so graceful people. We went into class with the goal of learning some basic steps, not falling, and not st...
epping on each other. We left with so much more than that…a beautifully choreographed dance that we can’t wait to perform. We now feel confident and have fun dancing! We would recommend Dance With Liza to anyone!!!
Liza is a phenomenal dance teacher. My fiancé and I went in for a lesson before our wedding and couldn’t believe how much we learned in one short hour. You won’t regret going to he...
r - she’ll make you feel comfortable and teach you a ton!
Liza is amazing! Neither my fiance nor I had any idea where to begin with our first dance, and Liza absolutely saved us. We took 5 lessons with her over the course of ~3 months and...
absolutely nailed our first dance (if we do say so ourselves). Could not recommend more highly - thank you so much, Liza!!
Liza is an incredible dance instructor! We accidentally waited until the last minute to book lessons, and she was still able to work her schedule to squeeze in lessons for us. Imme...
diately, we could tell she was an absolute professional. She choreographed our whole first dance, and worked with us to make sure the moves were at our level and we were comfortable. Liza provided helpful feedback throughout and videotaped our rehearsals so we could use them to practice at home. When we performed our dance, our guests were so impressed! Everyone loved it! We could not be more pleased with these dance lessons. They were hands down the best investment we made during our wedding planning process. Book with Liza today!
Liza is amazing at what she does!!! My fiancé and I both agree our dance lessons were one of our favorite pre wedding prep :) Liza helped make our dance feel intimate and clean aft...
er practicing in the kitchen and realizing we need some guidance! Don’t hesitate to book for your first dance. Thank you Liza!!
Liza and Mark are incredible!!! I would highly recommend them if you want to learn a dance routine for your wedding or just learn dancing for fun!
I called Liza explaining that I...
wanted private classes to learn a dance routine with my fiance. Unlike all other places that I had contacted, she was never trying to up-sell me to get the most money possible. She told me it was best to attend her group class (which is way cheaper) to first get the basics down so that we can more easily learn the routine in the private class. The rate for the group class and the private lessons were the best rates we saw on the market.
Group Dancing Class
Liza and Mark are so much fun to learn dancing with. They answer all your questions and help break it down for beginners like me and my fiance. They want to help you and will pull you aside to help you get down the basics (beginner or skilled). Even after our wedding, we plan on attending more dance classes as a fun weekly date night.
Private Dance for the Wedding
I can't tell you how much our families loved our first dance at the wedding. We told Liza and Mark the song we wanted and they were able to tell us the dance style that best matched the song and we can easily learn in the 6 classes we paid for. Liza is so awesome in that she is very honest on what looks good and doesn't. She won't fluff it for you and will help come with alternate moves that match your skill set so the dance still looks amazing. Mark does an incredible job of breaking the routine down to easily digestable parts and how to best practice. He is never shy to pull you aside and work with you to get the fundamentals which make a huge difference. Both of them are great at choreography that is doable and also fun / flashy for the crowd. Together, they are two peas in a pod and the lessons are so much fun!
Overall, my wife and I can't say enough good things about them. Our first dance at the wedding was a huge hit and something we will never forget!
As a couple that absolutely never dances, Liza helped choreograph a dance to our chosen song and successfully taught us how to look great for our first dance. She was incredibly pa...
tient with our literal missteps, and knew how to piece together our ideas into a cohesive and reasonable to execute dance. Our guests were floored by the quality of this dance, and I know we could not have done this without Liza's help.
Liza choreographed our first dance for our wedding to George Straight "It Just Comes Natural". We took 7 lessons over the course of 5 months and it was one of the things we looked ...
forward to most throughout wedding planning! Liza was patient, creative, and fun. She was also extremely flexible with our frequently changing work schedules and was always able to accommodate us. If you're considering dance lessons for your wedding, DO IT!
After continuing our wedding date four times due to the pandemic, we found ourselves finally at a month before our date and suddenly uncertain of how to even prepare for our first ...
dance. We found Liza on the Knot and are so glad we did! She was easy to schedule with, and most importantly, easy to work with! She took the song we picked and in just three lessons, worked with us to prepare us for a great first dance! We highly recommend working with her.
Liza is amazing! She makes dancing so easy to learn and she makes it fun too! We hired her for our wedding first dance and father daughter dance lessons and she was great! We fe...
lt so confident in our dances at the wedding because of her! HIGHLY RECOMMEND! Now that we're married, we want to go back to take more dance lessons with her just for fun!
My fiancé and I contacted Liza with no sense of rhythm and zero dancing skills.
Liza was not only an amazing dance instructor, but we left our first lesson with a level of confiden...
ce I never thought we’d have.
We just wanted to get through our first dance song, but Liza gave us the tools to have something even more exciting than we expected.
We highly recommend her!
Liza did an excellent job preparing my wife and I for our first dance!
Liza was recommended to us by a family member and we quickly realized she is the best dance teacher, ever! She was kind and patient and great at what she does. She took as much tim...
e as needed to help my husband and I nail down our first dance. We found out we were a little wobbly on our feet when it came to dancing, but Liza helped us stick to it and the result was beautiful. We received a lot of compliments at the wedding on how great our dance was. Thank you so much Liza! We will definitely be recommending to friends and family in the future :)
We really enjoyed our lessons with Liza! We went from knowing nothing about ballroom dancing to dancing a beautiful first dance at our wedding. She helped us pick between two song ...
choices, taught us moves that we could confidently execute - and look elegant while doing so! Would absolutely recommend her.
Liza was great! Everything was so fun! She worked with us to design the dance that we liked! We had ZERO dance experience and she made it easy! She was super flexible around our sc...
hedule and did it all during the pandemic. We were worried we started too late but she assured we’d be done on time, and we were :) The final dance turned out great!! Definitely the best decision of our wedding planning. Something fun to do with your fiancé! Don’t hesitate to book!
Liza was amazing. With only one 2 sessions she taught us the basics and put them together for our song. She was easy to learn from and had brilliant ideas for the dance. Thanks Liz...
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My fiancée and I wanted something memorable for our first dance and we could not have been luckier to have found Liza for choreographing our wedding dance. She was incredible! At ...
the end of our wedding night people were still talking about our first dance, and this is coming from someone who is known for having two left feet on a good day.
We walked in to our first lesson with little to no idea of what we wanted, all we had was the song picked. Over the period of five lessons we slowly created and adjusted a final dance that left the crowd in awe. We also had the experience of working with Liza before the pandemic, and during. For our lessons during the pandemic she was very considerate and still able to create an environment where the class was just as effective as pre-pandemic.
We could not have been happier with Liza and will be recommending her to everyone we know.
Had a lot of fun learning our first dance with Liza! She really worked well with both of us. Thank you so much
My husband and I hired Dance with Liza to choreograph our daughter’s wedding dance to A Thousand Years by Christina Perri. We were nervous because our son-in-law has two left feet,...
but Liza got to know my daughter and son-in-law, made them feel comfortable, and accentuated their best attributes. Liza was very professional and patient. She created an original dance that all wedding guests enjoyed.
We took 4 60-minute dance lessons with Liza and Janna and absolutely loved our experience. They'd never choreographed a dance to our song before, so we worked together to create ch...
oreography that felt fun and natural to us. Some of my favorite photos from our wedding are the ones of our guests' faces as they watched our first dance. I think a class pack makes for an amazing wedding shower gift, fun date night, and a really personal first dance! LOVE DANCE WITH LIZA!
Liza was INCREDIBLE. My Husband and I were looking for someone to teach us a few dance moves for our first dance and stumbled upon Liza and we couldn't have been more grateful. She...
is so patient and willing to modify moves that fits YOUR personalities. We danced to "A Thousand Years" and had so many positive remarks from our friends and family. We learned basic waltz moves along with dips, turns, and most importantly, confidence. It really does make a difference and it's something you and your significant other can enjoy learning together. :)
Liza was absolutely amazing! My fiance and I walked in there very nervous as we never danced before in our lives. Liza made us feel extremely comfortable and taught us the basic st...
eps to dance. She also helped us learn some spins and dips to make the dance more exciting. We had had a lot of fun too! I highly recommend her!
Contact
3927 Utah Street, San Diego, CA | San Diego / North Park / Kearny Mesa
Dance With Liza