Mae started dancing in her native Philippines at the age of thirteen. She specialized in Jazz, Cheerleading and Philippine Traditional Dances until Ballroom Dancing has become her passion. In 2009, she graduated with a degree in Industrial Engineering, but at that time, ballroom dancing was her only career.

She moved to United States in 2012, immediately started working with Fred Astaire NY Midtown where she had a lot of success for 10 years. She and her partner Kristian Sese accomplished tons of awards in major US Dancesport competitions in Professional American Rhythm division – including USDC, Ohio Star Ball, Emerald Ball, Embassy Dance Championships, Millennium Dancesport Championships and Fred Astaire’s Nationals’ finalists.

Kristian started dancing ballroom in 1996. He learned his Latin basics from Mark Lun and Gaynor Fairweather, Karen Hardy (Blackpool Champion) and Espen Salberg. Kristian was numerously coached by Ralph Lepane (Blackpool finalist) and Paul Harris (choreographer in Harry Potter movies). He learned his standard from Glenn Tierney (Blackpool Champion) and moved on to be coached mainly by Kenny Welch (European Champion and one of England’s premier coaches and adjudicator). Kristian also took lessons from the world known champions, such as: William Pino, Victor Fung and Massimo Georgian.

He was finalist in numerous European, Asian and North American Championships. In 2015, Kristian moved to United States where he found his professional partner Mae Lozada, and started working in Fred Astaire and participated on all major competitions in International Latin, International Standard, American Smooth and American Rhythm.