{"id":24822,"date":"2026-09-11T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/playing-with-fire-review-like-disneys-fantasia-on-steroids-as-a-virtual-yuja-wang-plays-amid-luminous-dreamworlds\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:37:16","slug":"playing-with-fire-review-like-disneys-fantasia-on-steroids-as-a-virtual-yuja-wang-plays-amid-luminous-dreamworlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/playing-with-fire-review-like-disneys-fantasia-on-steroids-as-a-virtual-yuja-wang-plays-amid-luminous-dreamworlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing With Fire review \u2013 like Disney\u2019s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Southbank Centre, London  <br \/><\/strong>Wang\u2019s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality installation<\/p>\n<p>It might be the first time that a soloist at the Last Night of the Proms is simultaneously giving another performance in another London venue. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/whats-on\/playing-with-fire\/\">Playing With Fire<\/a> is an installation that lets the pianist Yuja Wang be in two places at once \u2013 or perhaps in two universes. Nine pieces of music conjure nine luminous dreamworlds for an audience wearing VR headsets: Disney\u2019s Fantasia on steroids.<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration between the pianist, the director Pierre-Alain Giraud and artist Gabr\u00edela Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir, produced by Vive Arts and Atlas V, it has already been seen in Cannes, Paris and Shanghai, and now has a home in London until new year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/sep\/11\/playing-with-fire-review-southbank-centre-vr-headset-yuja-wang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/972c2b9a4ee0af90d36538731575c8d7516d53ee\/509_161_4910_3928\/master\/4910.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=240622b22bde349ce8ee6865a2aa549d\" title=\"Playing With Fire review \u2013 like Disney\u2019s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds\" \/>Southbank Centre, London  Wang\u2019s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality installation<br \/>\nIt might be the first time that a soloist at the Last Night of the Proms is simultaneously giving another performance in another London venue. Playing With Fire is an installation that lets the pianist Yuja Wang be in two places at once \u2013 or perhaps in two universes. Nine pieces of music conjure nine luminous dreamworlds for an audience wearing VR headsets: Disney\u2019s Fantasia on steroids.<br \/>\nA collaboration between the pianist, the director Pierre-Alain Giraud and artist Gabr\u00edela Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir, produced by Vive Arts and Atlas V, it has already been seen in Cannes, Paris and Shanghai, and now has a home in London until new year. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southbank Centre, London Wang\u2019s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality installation It might be the first time that a soloist at the Last Night of the Proms is simultaneously giving another performance in another London venue. Playing With &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/playing-with-fire-review-like-disneys-fantasia-on-steroids-as-a-virtual-yuja-wang-plays-amid-luminous-dreamworlds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Playing With Fire review \u2013 like Disney\u2019s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24822"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}