CEBO

Cebo is the president of Next Generation NYC, LLC. He has spent his life trying to build the professional structure within the street club dance culture.He also works to help develop an understanding of how the heritage of the street & club dance culture is interwoven with the people of its creation. To fully understand the culture you must know its people to understand the importance and relevance of their contributions.

Next Generation NYC, has celebrated twenty six years of supporting the street club culture.  Next Generation New York Studios is celebrating its twentieth anniversary of service to the street club dance community of Okayama, Japan. What started out as a crew is now a business and the crew has become a company Gen X The Company to be exact which is also celebrating sixteen years of dance performances and shows. NXGN is the co-production for the international street dance battle Step Ya Game Up New York also now has preliminaries in two countries China and Japan. In 2021 in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement we realized we needed to carve a space for Street & Club dance in the nonprofit space and thus NXGN Foundation for Street & Club Dance Culture was formed. Celebrating three successful years serving the community.

Cebo went to school for architectural design in his second year of studies, life and dance took precedence. As a husband and father of four girls, he has dedicated his life to empowering his ladies to follow their dreams and to have pride in their street club dance heritage. He served on the board of the international organization The Ladies of Hip Hop Festival.  He was also the creative director for It’s Showtime NYC as well as the program director for Everybody Dance Now! He has also served as the movement specialist for GoNoodle's Blazer Fresh, which is an app used by schools across the nation for teaching the youth school subject matter through dance. He is the first international house dance winner solidifying his placement in the dance crew Dance Fusion and MopTop Family.  He is also one of the directors of the MopTop Universal Program at Peridance Center. MopTop Universal is a six month immersive educational program in Street & Club Dance. As a steward for this culture Cebo has a responsibility to help build and educate Cebo also continues to teach and perform while maintaining his responsibilities as the president of Next Generation NYC, LLC, and spreading the culture through Music, Feeling, and Dance!