Southeast Tango Festival 2023
Dragon Productions and Kayla Maree Tango invite you to the premier tango event in NC!!
Meet Our DJ s and Instructors
Florencia Borgnia y Marcos Pereira
We are Marcos Pereira and Florencia Borgnia, Argentine Tango dancers, performers and instructors from Argentina and currently based in New York City.
We started our career together in 2013, and since then, we haven’t stopped doing what we like the most, dancing Tango.
Individually we’ve been dedicated to tango since our early age, having the opportunity to learn and being inspired by most of the well known tango masters and “milongueros” in Buenos Aires.
In 2015, we got the second place in the Buenos Aires City Tango Championship and we have been finalists in the World Tango Championship in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
During the latest years, we have been travelling all around the USA, Asia and Mexico, teaching and performing at many different Tango Festivals, schools and events.
Tango is our passion, and we’d like to invite you to join us in this wonderful and captivating “one-way trip” to the Tango world.
Roxana Marinoff y Cesar Davalos
Roxana and Cesar, from Argentina, are Professional dancers and Argentine Tango teachers. They have been together for more than 6 years and have participated in countless shows. They have taken their skills and passion throughout the eastern United States, giving workshops and shows in various dance schools. They are also the choreographers of numerous shows for many Argentine Producers.
Jonatan Baez
Jonatan has been dancing Argentine Tango since 1996 and Argentine Folklore since 1990. Throughout his career, Jonatan has received many prestigious dance awards along with placing first at various regional and national competitions in Tango and Folklore. He has performed with the National Folklore Ballet of Argentina and in several Tango shows including: the famous Café Tortoni, Añoranzas Tango, the legendary “Sabor a Tango”, "Tanguera", and “Che Tango". In addition, Jonatan has performed at multiple famous milongas (Salon Canning, Porteño y Bailarin, El Beso, Gricel, Sunderland, La Nacional, Confitería Ideal, La Baldosa, etc.) and with various orchestras: Color Tango, Los Reyes del Tango, Sans Sousi, Bajofondo, Sexteto Milonguero, Romantica Milonguera and many others.
DJ Koichiro Suzuki
Koichiro Suzuki has a Master’s Degree in Music Performance at Duquesne University and has performed Euphonium internationally since 1996. Koichiro incorporates his complex music background and deep understanding of musicality into his DJing. Koichiro DJs regularly in Pittsburgh, PA and has DJed in many other cities in the United States, Argentina, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Europe. Koichiro is the founder of the annual Pittsburgh Tango Fierro Marathon & Pittsburgh Tango Festival in Pittsburgh. In 2022, he was invited to DJ at Toronto Tango Marathon, Austin Spring Tango Festival, Itacha Tango Marathon, Spoleto Tango, Toronto Tango Festival, Windy City Tango Festival, Columbia Tango Marathon, South East Tango Festival.
DJ Ken Broom
Ken Broom is a multi-faceted DJ with more than 15 years experience playing music for dancers. Since 2004, he has been playing Latin dance music (salsa, chacha, bachata, and merengue), Argentine Tango music (traditional as well as nuevo/alternative tandas of tango, vals, and milonga), and Ballroom dance music (International (ballroom and latin) and American (smooth and rhythm)).
Ken has been a guest DJ at Spoleto’s Tango on the Beach (2006 to present), Columbia’s Mad Hot Tango Marathon (2010-2012), Columbia’s Argentine Tango Regional (2014-2015), Charlotte’s Candlelight Alternative Milonga (2016), Queen City Tango Marathon (2018 to present), Dancing with the Stars (9 seasons), Las Carolinas Tango Marathons, SouthEast Tango Festival, and Milonga La Pantera along with numerous private tango events and grand openings
As event organizers, Ken and his wife (Zenaida), have hosted Spoleto Tango Festival (Charleston, SC) 2006-present, Tango by the Lake (Columbia, SC), WinterHeat Salsa Weekend (Columbia, SC), and The Columbia Tango Marathon (Columbia, SC). In 2022, Ken and Zenaida launched Dragon Productions LLC, a company focused on providing event planning, audio, video, and theatrical lighting services.
As an Audio Engineer, Ken has been honored to mix live performances by Alejandro Ziegler Orchestra, Pittsburgh Tango Trio, Osvaldo Barrios, Athens Tango Project, De La Noche, Orquesta MaCuba, and Palmetto Latin 9.
DJ Mark Mindell
DJ Mark Mindel's tango journey began in 2011. The music of tango captured my mind & heart from the very start. I began DJing in 2015 for local practicas & organizing our own small milongas for more opportunities to dance. In 2018 Kim & I began organizing the Queen City Tango Marathon annually here in Charlotte North Carolina. I designed & constructed our own custom portable dance floor for this event. We now own more than 250 sq meters of portable floor. I am in the process of building my own custom sound system to elevate tango dancers audio experience to a new level.
Back to DJing. Every part of tango is a journey. Musical choices take dancers to many places full of emotion & color. I love opening the door for dancers to walk thru & share a moment or a dream from their mind or heart with another human being.
Besides our own Queen City Tango Marathon 2018-22, I have DJed at Charleston Encuentro, Newport News Encuentro, Sugar Hollow Encuentro, Los Angeles Encuentro, Columbia Tango Marathon, San Miguel Allende Festival, Tango Utopia - Durham, NC, Milonga Del Barrio - New York, Augusta, Atlanta, Charleston, Boston, Orlando, Knoxville, DC, Greensboro, Winston-Salem.
Placed 5th in the finals in the Remolino DJ contest.
Working with "Tango Tunes" to create a US based music restoration & digital transfer studio for the preservation of Tango music.