The thing I like about street events is not so often the staged 'happening', but more so the audience and support characters. I have no aversion to setting off a big-damned flash to catch something novel. Perhaps this has to do with my Weegee pretensions...
Captured in 2009 on a Canon EOS 400D; Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS setup with a Quantaray grip flash, I just revisited this image and processed it in Capture One 23. Hopefully, I have conjured a feeling of the old Super-XX 4x5.
PS: No recipes or magic filters were abused here...