117 - TREVOR PIKE AND OLGA CANSINO

TREVOR PIKE After almost 15 years of letting his wife steal the spotlight, Trevor Pike, aka Mr. Liz, finally gets his turn! Trevor has been involved in the performing arts from a young age. He grew up in Tecumseh, Michigan where he participated in community theatre, school musicals, and was a member of his high school’s show choir (and varsity soccer team — yes you can do both!). He is a graduate of Oakland University (sorry Kentucky fans) where he studied archaeology in addition to building sets for the theatre and dance department. He also took dance conditioning and modern dance classes, but whether that was just to meet girls is still under investigation. Trevor and his wife Elizabeth (who he met at a show choir camp, not in college modern class) have resided in Noblesville since 2015. He spends most of his time shuttling their oldest daughter Eliot (7) to her various dance classes and chasing their youngest daughter Austen (1) around the dance studio. He is proud to be known as “Mr. Liz” around Dance Innovations PAC, where he is the “dance dad in chief” and helps manage productions. When he’s not serving as a Business Controls Analyst for Freedom Mortgage in Fishers or doing some kind of project for Dance Innovations, you can often find Trevor at 5am classes at the Noblesville Orangetheory or Crunch Fitness, playing hurling with the Indianapolis Gaelic Athletic Association, working on choreography for the first ever dads dance at DI, or watching movies with his 10-year-old pug, Francis. Trevor is excited to be performing to music from the era he grew up in and is very glad he saved all his low-rise jeans, trucker hats, and bottles of LA Looks hair gel. All the money he’ll save on costuming will go straight to the worthiest cause he can think of: Meals on Wheels of Hamilton County. Thank you for your support!

OLGA CANSINO   began studying ballroom dancing at the age of 17 at the prestigious Moscow State University in Russia.  While in Russia, she competed in International Style Ballroom dance.  Olga began teaching dance lessons at the age of 20.  In 1998, Olga moved to the US, and continued teaching dance lessons at Penn State.  In 2003, Olga moved to Indiana, and began working as a dance instructor at Five Star Studios. Between 2005 and 2010, Olga was a dance instructor and co-owner of Simple Ballroom.  She became a co-founder of Dance Factor Club in 2011. She currently teaches group and private ballroom dance lessons for beginning and intermediate levels, for both children and adults at Carmel Ballroom Dance Studio. Olga specializes in both American and International style social dancing and in Formation dancing.