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Festival Fringe de Edimburgo

The Fringe, Festival of Edinburgh, Scotland,

is the biggest festival of street arts in the
world. The Fringe emerged as a sideshow
to the Edinburgh International Art Festival
that was created just after the Second
World War in 1947 with the aim of helping
to lift the battered European state of mind.

In 1958, the Festival Fringe Society (FFS)

was established, an organization with the
purpose of providing information, setting
up a central stand and publicizing the
program of shows - which made Fringe
better known.
The first decision of the FFS at its
inauguration was that no artistic veto
should be exercised over the shows
presented at the festival and the rule is still
valid today. Fringe attracts the big names
in street shows and covers a variety of
artistic expressions, such as theater,
cabaret, dance, music, circus, exhibitions
and events.

Fringe does not invite and does not

remunerate artists. In 2012, the festival
presented 2,100 shows distributed in 265
different locations. Humor occupied the
first place with 35% of the programming, in
second place, with 28%, came the
theatrical production and, with 16%,
musical shows.
For Edinburgh's Secretary of Culture and
External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop, “the
Edinburgh Festival, the Fringe, is the most
vibrant festival in the world and annually
attracts thousands of visitors to the capital
of Scotland who return home delighted
with the diversity of shows. , creativity of
the artists and with the opening to artistic
expressions of the world stage of the
show”.

The National Dance Company of Siena is

led by Francesca Selva and was founded in
1955. The choreography of the shows is
inspired by neoclassical art, but has a
strong contemporary influence. With the
collaboration of foreign dancers and
musicians, it performs this year at Fringe.