Dreyser Garcia
Dancer • Choreographer • Artistic Director • Founder & CEO
Dreyser Garcia is a Cuban-born professional dancer, choreographer, artistic director, cultural educator, and the Founder & CEO of Drey Dance Academy in Toronto, Canada.
With more than two decades of professional experience, Dreyser’s career has taken him from the stages and theatres of Havana to major festivals, television productions, films, cultural events, and dance congresses across Canada and internationally.
FROM CUBA TO THE WORLD
Dreyser began dancing at the age of 12 in Havana, Cuba, developing his foundation in Cuban popular dance, Afro-Cuban traditions, theatre, acting, and performance.
In 2002, he began his professional career with Teatro América in Havana, where he performed in theatre productions, television, cabarets, and multidisciplinary shows that required dancers to not only dance, but also act and sing. This experience helped shape Dreyser into the versatile performer, choreographer, and artistic director he is today.
His international career began early. In 2005, he travelled to Italy for the Salsa World Festival, followed by teaching and performing engagements in Ecuador and Nicaragua.
In 2008, Dreyser joined the entertainment team at a resort in Cayo Largo del Sur, Cuba, where he performed in up to 14 different productions while teaching Cuban dance to international guests. He later took on additional artistic responsibilities, including assisting with the direction and development of productions.
CANADA & THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE
After moving to Toronto in 2013, Dreyser quickly established himself within Canada’s Latin dance and performing arts communities. He start his journey teaching at Steps Dance Studio.
His career has included performances and appearances for CP24, Breakfast Television and CBC, along with screen work in the television series 11.22.63, starring James Franco, and The Cuban Movie.
As a performer and choreographer, Dreyser has been involved with some of Toronto and Canada’s most recognized stages and cultural events, including the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, Toronto Salsa Congress, SBK Toronto, Agua Festival, USA Bulla, Luminato Festival 20th Anniversary, Caribana Toronto, Salsa on St. Clair, Taste of the Danforth, Nathan Phillips Square, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Fallsview Casino Resort, El Mocambo, Lula Lounge, and the HUM Awards.
His choreography credits also include music video work, including El Tanque by Raul Lora and 1X100 music video of DLM COLLECTIVE and Roberto Junior.
Dreyser continues to work internationally. Most recently, he performed in Salvador | Bahia, Brazil, one of the world’s most important centres of Afro-diasporic culture, and taught at the Caribe Salsa Bachata Congress, sharing Cuban dance, musicality, history, and movement with dancers from different parts of the world.
CHOREOGRAPHER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Beyond performing, Dreyser’s career has increasingly focused on choreography, artistic direction, cultural storytelling, and the creation of original productions.
He directed and choreographed De Cuba Vengo, a production inspired by the energy, music, dance, and nightlife of Havana.
He later created and directed Roots of Fire, a dance-theatre production exploring slavery, African cultural survival, and the transformation of African traditions within Cuban culture—examining how these influences helped shape the identity, music, spirituality, and dance of Cuba.
His artistic work is driven by a desire to go beyond entertainment and use the stage to tell stories about history, identity, migration, culture, and the African diaspora.
DREY DANCE ACADEMY
In 2017, Dreyser founded Drey Dance Academy, where he serves as Founder, CEO, and Artistic Director.
What began as his passion for sharing authentic Cuban dance has grown into a Toronto dance community dedicated to education, performance, culture, and human connection.
Through Drey Dance Academy, Dreyser teaches and develops dancers, trains performers, creates choreography and theatrical productions, produces cultural events, collaborates with musicians and artists, and introduces audiences to the history and cultural foundations behind the dances they learn.
His teaching and artistic work encompass Cuban Salsa/Casino, Rueda de Casino, Rumba, Afro-Cuban dance, Son Cubano, Timba, Reggaetón, Bachata, body movement, musicality, and Cuban cultural history.
In 2024, Dreyser founded Diaspora Arts Collective, this program is design to teach, preserve and Research about the Diaspora.
For Dreyser, dance has never been simply about learning steps.
It is culture. It is history. It is identity. And it is a way of bringing people together.
From Havana to Toronto and stages around the world, Dreyser continues to dedicate his career to performing, creating, educating, and preserving the cultures that shaped him—while inspiring the next generation of dancers and artists.
Roberto Ernesto
Renowned contemporary folkloric and popular dancer, educator, choreographer and singer Roberto Ernesto Lorenzo was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, on October 12, 1990. At the tender age of 6, he began taking dance courses from well-experienced dance teachers in the city, while studying at the Elementary school.
He continued his dance studies at the Cienfuegos’s Beny Moré School of Arts. In 2005 – 2008 at the Samuel Feijoo School of Performing Arts in Santa Clara. In 2008, he started working as a professional dancer and folkloric dance professor at the Beny Moré School of Arts. In addition, he began his studies in theatre, stage performance, classical and contemporary Dance, and choreography at the School of Performing Arts at the University of Santa Clara, obtaining his diploma six years later.
His singing studies allowed him to perform in different theatres across the island as part of the Cienfuegos Musical Show Company.
Roberto Lorenzo also had the opportunity to perform with the likes of the Havana Queens Dance Company.
In 2011, he started to perform in different venues as a dancer and singer, teaching and training new dancers at the Cayo Largo del Sur Hotel Institution and, later, as part of the TV Ballet show of Cuba, performing Jazz, Funk, Latin, Modern and Aerial dances.
After making his mark in Cuba, he immigrated to Canada to continue to essay his skills as a dancer and singer of remarkable virtuosity performing everywhere in the city. And also at the Drey Dance Company as a dancer, singer and professor.
Roberto also worked at the Enana Dance Company, collaborating with Head Choreographers to produce performance routines and teaching and supervising the choreography practices and rehearsals with specialized dance groups.
He has been performing a wide variety of dance routines, including contemporary, ballet, jazz and acrobatics.In addition, Roberto uses his knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian languages to interact with the LGBTQ community where he belongs.
Yuhala Muy Garcia
Ballet Creole Artistic Director & Principal Dancer
Yuhala Muy Garcia is a Cuban-Canadian choreographer, performer, and cultural leader serving as the Artistic Director of Ballet Creole, Canada’s Premier Afro-Contemporary dance company. With a professional dance career spanning over two decades, she trained under founding director Patrick Parson and has performed extensively across Canada and abroad. Yuhala’s creative practice is rooted in the rhythms and philosophies of the African Diaspora, blending Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Cuban, and contemporary movement vocabularies to tell stories of cultural memory, migration, and identity. As Artistic Director, she is committed to deepening Ballet Creole’s legacy while forging new paths in education, community engagement, and international exchange. Her recent projects include cross-cultural research initiatives in Cuba, Jamaica, and Nigeria, as well as mentorship programs and large-scale festival productions that spotlight diasporic excellence. A passionate advocate for emerging talent and inclusive representation in the arts, Yuhala continues to inspire a new generation of dance artists through bold programming, collaborative vision, and unshakable cultural pride.