Dancer on the roof

What struck me most about downtown Ottawa when I first saw it was its plethora of architectural styles: Victorian gothic, French renaissance, red brick utilitarian, Tudor-gothic, neoclassical with Doric columns, art deco, mid-twentieth century geometric concrete and eighties glass towers, all in one place.

Every mid-day this week, in a niche between the asymmetric walls of the NAC buildings, Kenneth Emig does a dance of his own invention on the patio stones. Three of these triangular stones had been removed and filled with pebbles/ sand/ a sheet of metal for the dance he performed around them to the strains of an electronic humming as of Tibetan singing bowls.

A pity I missed most of this in trying to find the location in the NAC's concrete maze with all its flights of steps.