Born in Marikina, Philippines, Luis Cabrera trained at Philippine High School for the Arts. After dancing with Ballet Manila and Ballet Philippines, he attended The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts on scholarship and graduated with a diploma in Dance in 2015. Cabrera joined Hong Kong Ballet as a Corps de Ballet member the same year and became Coryphée in 2019.

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With Hong Kong Ballet, Cabrera has danced the principal and featured roles of Fritz and Italian Doll in Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker, Peter Pan and Tootles in Septime Webre’s Peter Pan, March Hare and Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum in Webre’s ALICE (in wonderland) and performed in John Meehan's Swan Lake, Cynthia Harvey’s The Sleeping Beauty, Nina Ananiashvili’s Don Quixote, Anna-Marie Holmes’ Le Corsaire,  Rudi van Dantzig’s Romeo and Juliet, Ronald Hynd's Coppélia, Pär Isberg’s Pinocchio, Val Caniparoli's Lady of the Camellias, Septime Webre’s The Great Gatsby, George Balanchine’s Serenade, Jiří Kylián's Petite Mort and Sechs Tänze, Nacho Duato’s Castrati, Christopher Wheeldon’s Rush, Alexei Ratmansky’s Le Carnaval des Animaux, Jorma Elo's Shape of Glow, Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, Edwaard Liang’s Sacred Thread, Justin Peck's Year of the Rabbit, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Sombrerisimo, Fei Bo’s Shenren Chang, Yuh Egami and Hu Song Wei Ricky’s The Rite of Spring and Hu’s When You See. Cabrera’s choreographic works include With-IN (2017) and dis-CONNECT (2019).

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Prior to joining the Company, he danced in Nonoy Froilan’s restaged Giselle, Carlo Pacis’ restaged A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty and Alice Reye’s Rama Hari. Cabrera won Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer at the 2020 Hong Kong Dance Awards.