Artists
Rocio Mancino y German Filipeli
Rocio y German Filipeli : Argentine tango dancers have been performing and teaching together for over 15 years. Their passion is one and the same, Tango. With extensive experience in the tango scene with Salon style, they incorporate a broad background of studies in classical and contemporary dance and theater. Equally, they both grew up in the milongas of Buenos Aires. Consequently, they have performed for the most important Tango Show Houses in Buenos Aires such as, Esquina Homero Manzi, El Viejo almacen, Señor Tango, Cafe de los Angelitos, Rojo Tango, Tango Porteño and they have performed in Buenos Aires renown milongas: Canning, Porteño y Bailarin, La Viruta, La Baldosa, Torcuato Tasso, El Beso, Sunderland, among others. In addition, they were invited in 2006 to train in the best Academy Argentina of Tango milonguero with the greats of our time: “Aceta” with Carlitos Perez, Pupi Castelo, Gavito, Jorge Dispari, Julio Balmaceda, Flaco Dani, Osvaldo Zotto, Gerardo Portalea, Teté , Milena Plebs, among others.
Creating a unique personal style, their choreography underscores technique, passion and
embrace, without losing the essence of Argentine Tango and tradition of 2x4. Their performance can be appreciated in the short film "Elicit" within the framework of "The 48 Hour Film Project", winning the 1st prize and participating well in the Short Film Festival of Las Vegas in the year 2010.
The Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France, summons for the anniversary of the prestigious firm of Pandora Jewelry.
They were called to represent the Argentina Republic at Expo 2012 Yeosu, South Korea. Participated in the first Tango Festival in Shanghai, China with the company Association Bang Tango.
Silvina Tse
Silvina Tse is a professional italian tango dancer and teacher with partial Chinese origins.
She started dancing at the age of 6 training in rhythmic gymnastics, skating, swimming, hip hop, capoeira, gyrotonic, classical, contemporary and modern dance. Her love for Argentine Tango started in 2009 and then she started studying with well renowned maestros from Italy and Buenos Aires.
After receiving the maximum grade degree in civil engineering, Silvina decided to dedicate her life exclusively to dance and received FIDS (Federazione Italiana Danze Sportive) professional teacher diploma. Her approach to Tango consists on studying a variety of styles in order to understand the entire subject and help every single student to find a personal style.
Silvina has been for many years a full-time teacher at two established Tango schools in Bologna - Streetango & ArteDanza and whenever she is in Bologna she keeps alive the collaboration. In addition to that she travels to perform and to bring her knowledge of Tango and Technique to different communities in and out of Italy.
Silvina has been a performer in many different theatre shows and she has been the director of a tango show called “Tango a Spillo” performed at ‘Forum Manzoni’ and featuring a vast variety of Argentine Tango styles involving professional dancers, musicians and actors.
During the partnership with Michael Nadtochi she spent some time developing tango projects in Usa and when the covid regulations allowed trips and events she travelled to teach workshops and perform in shows and festivals around the world like in Usa, Europe, and Kazakhstan. She is actually partnering Murat Erdemsel for international events and Julio Alvarez in local events.
DJ s
DJ El Espejero (Toronto, Canada)
Igor “El Espejero” started dancing tango in 2011, and DJing in 2012. Since then he has been invited to play his music to over 300 milongas and events in London, Dublin, Bruges, Buffalo, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Charlotte, Riga, Vilnius, Minsk, Kiev, Lviv, Odessa, Dnipro, Niš, Budapest, Prague, Antalya, Kyrenia, Shanghai, Taipei, and Buenos Aires (Salon Canning and Club Fulgor), while actively DJing at various milonga venues and organizing own events in Toronto, the city of his residence.
His musical style is influenced by the abundant energy of the best Italian tango DJs, and by the profound and sensual musical selection of the younger generation of Buenos Aires musicalizadors. Igor also has deeply immersed himself into the craft of sound engineering. His articles and webinars on the various technical aspects of tango DJing are well known around the world.
Igor says: “I believe that it is the dance floor that dictates the choices to the DJ, not other way around. Thus, I neither program my music in advance of the event, nor I attempt to ‘educate’ or ‘challenge’ the dancers. My only goal is to deliver the best danceable music and abundant energy to the floor, from the first to the last tanda, without a single exception.”
DJ Koichiro Suzuki (Naha, Okinawa)
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 many other cities in the United States, Argentina, Canada, Cyprus, Mexico and Japan. In 2021, Koichiro was invited to DJ at the Windy City Tango Festival in Chicago in July, the Boston Tango Marathon in September, Plan to Organize Pittsburgh Tango Fierro in October.
DJ David Chester (Worcester, MA)
David has loved music his whole life. In his youth, he sang in choirs that toured Europe, and also was a choir director. Later in life, he discovered tango, and it became his passion. It wasn't long before he got into DJing. Now, he DJs at milongas and festivals across New England and beyond, playing his carefully crafted tandas. His favorite songs are the emotional songs that touch your soul, and are full of longing. However, he plays a wide variety of tango songs, from rhythmic to lyrical. He has even been known to play an alternative tanda when it fits the crowd. David also hosts a practica in Worcester, as well as being one of the hosts of the Boston Sunday Practica (the most popular practica in New England).
DJ Ken Broom (Columbia, SC)
As an explorer of tango since 2004, Ken enjoys playing tandas of sensual tango, melodic vals, and playful milonga in both traditional and alternative music. Watching a dance floor filled with dancers who share a common passion for the creative art of dance excites him.
Since the beginning of his quest of playing music for dancers, he has been the primary house DJ in three different tango dance venues in Columbia, SC between 2007 and 2017. He has also been featured in events like 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, and Las Carolinas Tango Marathons along with several ballroom grand openings and numerous private tango events.
As an audio engineer, Ken has been honored to mix live music for such artists as: Alejandro Ziegler, Osvaldo Barrios, Athens Tango Project, De La Noche, Orquesta MaCuba, and Palmetto Latin 9. He also enjoys hosting events, such as Tango by the Lake, WinterHeat, and The Columbia Tango Marathon as well as performing tango and other genres of dance.
Vendors
Sandra Angel
Bringing Mussa Collection, her great collection of shoes and clothes.
Natalia Kansburg
Bringing Ambiente, her great clothing collection for environmentally conscientious consumers.