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2016 Programme

Event #22

Igudesman & Joo

Play it again

Encores are often the best part of a show. Then why not start directly from the end? What would happen if every performance were an encore? An exclusive preview for the audience of Festival della Mente, the new show by Igudesman & Joo is upside down, inside-out, backwards, setting off from the public's request to “Play It Again” to deliver an hour and a half of talent and entertainment. Performing in a sort of global esperanto that the entire world can understand – Joodesmanish – Igudesman & Joo will also incorporate requests from the audience, allowing their active participation. And transforming the evening into a unique event.

Igudesman & Joo

Aleksej Igudesman (violinist born in Leningrad) and Hyung-ki Joo (British-Korean pianist) are musicians and composers who have taken the world by storm with their performances – an exhilarating mix of classical music, comedy and pop culture. Their YouTube videos boast more than 28 million views, and the duo has appeared on television in many countries. They are at home in a classical music hall as well as in a stadium holding 18.000 people, pursuing their mission of making classical music accessible to a yoiunger and vaster audience. The great names of classical music – from Emanuel Ax to Joshua Bell, Janine Jansen, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Viktoria Mullova up to Julian Rachlin – have made their way into their crazy musical sketches.

2016 Programme

Event #22

Igudesman & Joo

Play it again

An idea of public space

That place called “home”

The space of words: Helen and Odysseus

The last day of summer

The birth of space (and time)

The birth of space (and time)

The space of war. The First Italian War of Independence

Immunity and the brain: a dialogue between two chief systems. From memory to vaccines.

New males: as teenagers, in couples, as fathers

Tv series: a newly emerged continent

Across the American deserts: a voyage through 20th century collective imagination

What do algorithms think of?

That place is gone

The space of rebellion

Other maps, other worlds. Representations of space

The analyst at the movies: thinking by images

From the stars to Life: one, one hundred, one thousand Earths

Architectural space in the past, the present, the future

Families confined and without borders

The best ideas of our lives. Make room for innovation (the real kind)

The space of absence: Patroclus and Andromache

On the other side of the sea

Play it again

The space of war. The second Italian War of Independence

School is an idea of the world

Asperger Talk Show

Let’s make space for stupidity

Voyages through spaces real and imagined

Is there space for us all? The future of European migrations

When painters left their studios to paint en plein air

The memory of space. The rubble of climate and rubbish in our homes

Graffiti, tags and murals: when art extends to walls

The poetry of space. Words and drawings on that place we call home

The river is never wrong

Mirror neurons: anatomy of a revolutionary discovery

The boundaries of the soul and of the world