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 | Borders are no barrier to a Festival with global vision |
 By Brian Ferguson FROM whirling Turkish dervishes and fiery Hungarian gypsy music to all-female Iranian theatre, Polish opera and Israeli soldiers-turned-dancers, this year's Edinburgh International Festival certainly embraces a host of global cultures...
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This year's Edinburgh International Festival, the world's biggest annual arts extravaganza, explores the changing face of Europe with a programme of music, theatre and dance called "artists without borders".The festival's Australian director Jonathan Mills noted that it was founded in 1947 in the aftermath of World War Two as an optimistic expression of what might be.Europe in the early 21st century was a very different place, he said in announcing this year's programme on Wednesday."Political borders have been redrawn in every direction one cares to look. These borders are not just political or geographic but, more significantly, represent a profound shift of cultural, social and even religious identity and opportunity." Advertisement The festival opens on August 8 with "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny", a tragic-comic satire of a hedonistic city where anything goes by Bertolt Brecht to the music of Kurt Weill.The festival runs through 151 different events to the final fireworks...
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