Ms. Parma specializes in partner dancing, such as Tango, Salsa, and West Coast Swing and has traveled worldwide to perform and choreograph for TV and theater productions, such as Swango, the Musical, Swing, Tango Dreams, Lincoln Center, Hope and Faith, and Verizon Commercial. Mariana teaches dance at Dance Manhattan Ballroom School and Steps on Broadway. She and Jason combine their varied dance styles to create a choreography that fuses Tango, West Coast Swing, and Modern Dance. In 2004 she performed in Swango, the Musical in NYC, 2005 she performed in Swing, the Musical at the Carousel Theater in Akron, Ohio, and in Tango Dreams in New Jersey. She also coached Chita Rivera on Tango for her role in Venecia, directed by Author Laurents in 2003.
She has trained at Steps on Broadway, NYC, with Tango teachers Nito and Elba, Gavito, Cesar Coelho, Mariela Franganillo, and Metin.Yazir in NYC.