Playing With Fire is an immersive installation that reinvents the classical recital through mixed reality. Inches from a real Steinway piano, audiences experience an intimate virtual performance by Yuja Wang, from Bach and Chopin to Debussy, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Each piece becomes a chapter in a surreal human odyssey — from the origins of life to the fires of war to rebirth. From this repertoire built together with Yuja, writer and director Pierre-Alain Giraud has crafted a narrative and created vivid visual and musical worlds in collaboration with Icelandic artist Gabríela Friðriksdóttir.
Playing With Fire
Pierre-Alain Giraud
2025
International Premiere
Immersive Competition
COUNTRY(IES)
United Kingdom, France, Taiwan
LEAD ARTIST(S)
Director, Writer and Creative Director: Pierre-Alain Giraud
Creative Director and Original Artwork: Gabríela Friðriksdóttir
Art Director: Arthur Maugendre
Sound Designers: Nicolas Becker, Antoine Martin
Lead Developer: Sylvain Hayot
Scenographer: Laurence Fontaine
Lighting Designer: Philippe Berthomé
Olfactory Elements: Francis Kurkdjian
Creative Director and Original Artwork: Gabríela Friðriksdóttir
Art Director: Arthur Maugendre
Sound Designers: Nicolas Becker, Antoine Martin
Lead Developer: Sylvain Hayot
Scenographer: Laurence Fontaine
Lighting Designer: Philippe Berthomé
Olfactory Elements: Francis Kurkdjian
MAIN CAST
Performer: Yuja Wang
PRODUCTION
Celina Yeh, Samantha King, Nina Weng (VIVE Arts)
Antoine Cayrol, Julien Bercy, Oriane Hurard, Arnaud Colinart, Pierre Zandrowicz (Atlas V)
In collaboration with production partner Lightroom and supported by Steinway.
Antoine Cayrol, Julien Bercy, Oriane Hurard, Arnaud Colinart, Pierre Zandrowicz (Atlas V)
In collaboration with production partner Lightroom and supported by Steinway.
DURATION
Session 40′
USER NUMBER
40
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