Mary Garvin has taught at the Door County Folk Festival, Chicagoland Spring Fling, Mountain Playshop and other dance groups and festivals around the country. She is a leader at Tapestry Folkdance Center in  the Twin-Cities and is one of the organizers of SNOPA! - a Twin-Cities Winter Dance Weekend.  She was on the Earl Hall Folk Dance Circle committee at Columbia University in New York City.   She was a member of modern & folk dance repertory companies at the University of Oregon, was a college dance Instructor and was a performer in the George Tomov Yugoslav Dance Ensemble.  A proud feather in her cap is having been asked by Bulgarians to teach them Bulgarian dances.  Mary has become addicted to Argentine tango in the last several years but stays loyal to her international dance roots.