Born in New Jersey, Austin Joson is a 12 year-old ballroom dancer, and has won several National titles in the Preteen/Juvenile category. He is a ten dance competitor, which means that he competes in both Latin and Standard dances. He has numerous championship titles in both styles. He has been dancing for 3 years.


He has had several partners throughout his ballroom dancing career, his first being Fiona Tsatskin. He and Fiona danced in Austin's first competition, the Tri-State Challenge in March of 2005. At this point he was dancing at the Bronze level. They went on to compete in the Philly Festival, American Star Ball, and Manhattan Dancesport competitions, with very successful results.

After the 2005 Manhattan Dancesport Championship, Austin began a partnership with Taylor-Ann Barton of Alpine, Utah. They went on to compete at the Preteen Championship level in several competitions including the Ohio Star Ball and Embassy Ball. Austin and Taylor's partnership was very strong and quite promising; however, due to many other things they had to take care of, Taylor's family opted to take a break from dancing.
With the sudden loss of a partner, Austin Joson had to audition a new partner. Through a ballroom dancing website, he found Liza Lakovistky, a fellow gold competitor from Brooklyn, New York. She is his current partner. Their biggest issue as a partnership has been said to be their height difference, but this seemed to be less of a problem for judges. Liza was not trained in Standard dancing prior to her partnership with Austin, but they quickly became Standard champions.

In the meantime, take a look at Austin and Liza on Dancing With The Stars!!! Feel free to leave comments!