The guy front and centre is a street performer we came across while walking through Leicester Square early one evening. He was having the absolute time of his life and dragging unsuspecting people from the crowd and pressing them into performing a dance routine with him to a Britney Spears song coming from a boom box on the pavement.

The crowd were loving it as well and he was a delight to watch, his whole energy was infectious. He was good, too! He had all the moves and really knew how to dance.

I shot the initial image on a Fuji X-T5 with 56mm f1.2 lens. Sadly, though, the setting was less than ideal and the backdrop of the Vue Cinema where he was busting his shapes was rather ugly and had lots of distracting artefacts on the wall.

I thought he deserved to be performing on a bigger stage and with a troupe of dance performers supporting him.

ChatGPT gladly obliged and gave him an arena stage on which to strut his stuff while perfectly preserving his energy and elation.