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Kate Deeming has been cheering up the commuters of Glasgow as she bops, pirouettes, boogies and turns her way along the riverside for a couple of months.
Now, the rest of the world are joining in appreciation as her videos soar in popularity on YouTube.
The freelance performance artist, who has been working on a project in Sri Lanka to teach orphans to dance, felt she needed some outlet to continue working on the energy she had created.
“I went for a run one day and found myself down at the Broomielaw and thought ‘well, I am going to start doing this here.’
“I have studied dance my whole life. My mum tells stories of me dressing in a black leotard when I was a small child with silk scarves running through an area essentially like Govanhill in my little slippers - it is just part of my personality.”
So what did the dancing dive make of the Glasgow audience so well renowned for giving a truthful opinion?
“Dancing next to river is great,” she said. “I get lots of honks from cars passing by, I get thumbs up, waves. I also get the ‘I don’t see you, I am going to pretend you are not there look.’
However, for the 36-year-old, it is not the public reaction which is important but rather, the experience she takes from being at one with nature.
“It is a public space and for me, these public spaces are designed to be used. But equally, you don’t have to watch me, I am not performing. Some days, I walk around in circles for 20 minutes.”
She added: “It is about joy, about being free and expressive in our body. It is not my space, it is our space.”
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Not Steve Scott out of Nightwatch said
It was on Reporting Scotland at least a week ago....
MISCHKA'SMUM said
The dancing "dive"? Hope that lassie didnae read this. I assume the intended word was DIVA. As stated on previous occasions, why don't you people PROOF-READ your work before submitting it?