OUR TEAM

suzie HARDT

Founder of  the Wedding Choreographer Studio as well as beginner social dance studio Suzie's Studio, Suzie Hardt has been choreographing wedding and partner dances for 25 years. Suzie teaches all partner dances, including waltz, foxtrot, tango, swing, salsa, cha cha, rumba, samba, paso doble, bachata, merenge, disco, hustle, Lindy Hop, rock and roll, zydeco, jive, polka, Viennese Waltz, Carolina shag, bosa nova, Zydeco, country two step. She also teaches line dances and solo club dancing. 

Suzie is known for her ability to break moves down in a simple and clear manner and for making learning to dance easy and fun. She is positive and encouraging with students of all levels and makes the most shy of new dancers quickly comfortable.

Wedding Choreographer Suzie Hardt is the author of the book Social Dance Made Simple: Learn to Dance in Three Lessons and How To Ballroom book Moving As Two: A Guide for Ballroom Dancers , is now available on Amazon. Her third book It's Your Dance: Wedding Dance Made Easy  is pending publication.
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Suzie Hardt & her husband Todd at their wedding. Photo by Shell Jiang Photography

​Suzie Hardt and husband dance partner Todd Marsden perform dance shows at weddings regularly as A Tall Order Dance Entertainment. Check their website to enjoy video clips of their performances. The couple has danced for Americas Got Talent, Season 8 in New York, as principal dancers with the St. Louis Symphony and Grammy Award winning composer and conductor, Victor Vanacore, and on the KQED TV special Big Band Swing as well as performing for Google, Intuit, Mercury, Kaiser, the De jung museum, the California Institute of Science, and Mondavi and St. Supery wineries and many weddings, anniversaries, and other celebrations.

Learn more about the experience of working with Suzie Hardt in this interview by the Bay Area wedding photographer  Grier Cooper. Also check out Ms. Cooper's website Grier Cooper Photography to enjoy some of her beautiful photography.

ANNICA MENICUTCH

Hannah romanowsky

Hannah Romanowsky is an internationally renowned performing artist, teacher, and choreographer with over 20 years of experience in the international dances and wedding dances from around the world. Founder of both the DanceVersity multicultural arts education program and the Scheherazade School of Dance, Hannah is in high demand throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for her expertise in world dance traditions. 

Ms. Romanowsky specialties include dances from India, China, Mexico, Cuba, Iran, the Middle East, Spain, and Latin America. She also teaches all the traditional wedding and partner dances of the U.S., waltz, tango, salsa, swing, country line dances. She is very skilled in combining dance styles to make your wedding dance celebration truly reflect the union of you and your partner and your family heritages.

Ms. Romanowsky  performs frequently at international weddings and has been a featured artist at some of the most prestigious venues in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, including the Asian Art museum, de Young museum, Legion of Honor, multiple appearances in the Ethnic Dance Festival at the Palace of Fine Arts, as well as the Houston Museum of Modern Art, the British Museum in London, and international arts festivals in Asia and Europe. Hannah has also performed for Google, FaceBook, Benefit Cosmetics, Oracle, Salesforce, Lawrence Livermore Labs, Oakland Ballet, the Marin Symphony, as well as for numerous wineries, charities, fundraisers, academic institutions and private events.

our locationS

HIDDEN CITY BALLROOM
304 Washington Ave. 
Point Richmond, CA 94801

Our ballroom is easy to find, just several blocks up the main street coming from 580 highway in a lovely converted old church.
SUZIE'S STUDIO
425 Irwin Street, Ste B
​San Rafael, CA 94901

Our studio is located at 425 Irwin Street, just south of central San Rafael. The studio has reserved parking spaces in front of the studio.