Dreyser Garcia
Dreyser Garcia has been dancing since the age of 12 and has studied all Cuban rhythms as well as Afro-Cuban dance. He began his professional dance career in 2002 in Havana, Cuba. As part dance company The American Theatre, he performed regularly in theatres, nightclubs and on television. In 2006, he traveled to Italy to teach and perform at the Salsa World Festival. He has also taught and performed in Ecuador and Nicaragua. In 2008, Dreyser began working for a hotel in Cayo Largo Del Sur, Cuba, performing 14 different shows each week and teaching Cuban dance styles daily.
In 2013, he moved to Toronto and taught Afro-Cuban rhythms, Cuban Salsa/Casino Rueda, and Bachata at Steps Dance Studio until March 2017. With the students of Steps Dance Studio, Dreyser choreographed a Casino Rueda routine which was performed at the Toronto Salsa Congress in 2015. For the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games, he choreographed and performed Salsa and Afro-Cuban styles. He had the opportunity to be filmed dancing the Waltz in television series 11.22.63 starring James Franco (2015). Dance is Dreyser's passion, and he aims to share that with his students at Drey Dance Academy.
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 instruction 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. Then 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.