The Real Future
Conversations with top street dancers hosted by photographer John Nyboer at his Los Angeles studio. Explore the stories, history, and styles behind the world’s largest arts movement, and view spontaneous drum and dance performances. Let's get into The Real Future!
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Alvin Désir: In-Person Confrontation & Cyphers (Pt 2) (opens the original)
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What is the value of raw, in-person confrontation in a social media era? Guest Alvin Désir joins photographer Nyboer on The Real Future to discuss face-to-face confrontation, dance cyphers as proving grounds, and they end with a live drum and dance improvisation. Missed the beginning? Watch The Real Future Episode 27 (Part 1) . Episode Chapters: (00:00) Intro & Discretion Notice (00:44) The Diminishing Skill of In-Person Communication (05:53) Proving Grounds: Evolution of the Dance Cypher (11:39
Alvin Désir – Popping to Success from Montreal to FLA to L.A. to the Hot Zone (Part 1) (opens the original)
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My guest today is dancer, DJ, and event organizer Alvin Désir. Alvin is one of the first dancers I got to know when I started photographing the street dance community . Unbeknownst to us at the time, he had just moved here from Florida, and I had just started photographing dancers, so maybe we shared a similar vulnerability. Whatever the case, we’ve developed a friendship over the years and when he moved to Arizona and started producing The Hot Zone Sessions with Julio Saran, I made sure to get
Boujee – Building Dance Community in Las Vegas (opens the original)
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Welcome to Episode 26 of The Real Future, Las Vegas Edition #3. My guest today is Brendon Paredes aka Boujee. When I first met Boujee in 2024 at the Elite Invitational battle, I didn’t even realize that he, or anyone named Boujee, was behind the event! In face, if you’re taking this in on video, I have very few photos of him and tried to find shots that at least have his logo in the background. Anyway, I had gone to this event because I knew several of the participants and it was a good opportun
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