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BIPOD leaps into action
Beirut's festival of contemporary dance kicks off with booms, guns and a ton of flour
By Matthew Mosley
Daily Star staff
Friday, April 17, 2009

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Lamps swing crazily, perspex panes bash against each other and storm clouds of flour drift into the audience. Bursts of machine-gun fire and bone-rattling explosions suddenly cease as actor Glen Blackhall scribbles cryptic messages. The opening night of BIPOD, the Beirut International Platform of Dance.

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