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Fri 06 Jun 2009Street performers line out for contest of the bizarre
“BETTY BRAWN,” who bills herself as the world’s strongest woman, balanced two break-dancers on her back yesterday as other performers unicycled and wriggled their way out of straitjackets in Martha Schwartz Square at the Grand Canal Dock. This was just a preview for the AIB Street Performance World Championship, from June 18th to 21st, during which Merrion Square will be full of street performers doing comedy acts, hammering nails into their heads and making sandwiches with their toes.
The championship, bringing together 31 of the most bizarre and impressive acts from around the world, is being held in Dublin for the fourth year. It will also be held for the first time at the Cork Midsummer Festival on June 13th and 14th.
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