Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
+44 (0)20 7942 2000
London
Collaborators: UK Design
for Performance 2003-2007
November 21, 2007-
November 18, 2008

As well as showing how designers communicate their ideas to audiences, the theme will celebrate their partnerships with directors, writers, composers, choreographers and performers. Others collaborators include visual artists such as lighting and projection designers, digital artists, industrial designers and architects, as well as the talented crafts people who realise these designs for performance.

Designs include inventive fringe performances to grand international ballet and opera, and West End musicals to small-scale touring productions, an exhibition by the Association of Lighting Designers, and work from individual lighting designers. A presentation by UK Sound Designers features an installation involving 20 UK courses by the Association of Courses in Theatre Design.

The RSC's The Complete Works Festival, Forkbeard Fantasy, cutting-edge company Quarantine, and two Ring Cycles from English National Opera and the Royal Opera House are included. There are also performance space designs for Northern Stage Company, Wexford Opera House and Siobhan Davies Dance Studios.

The quadrennial exhibition includes a selection of designs on display in Nottingham represent the UK at the International Quadrennial in Prague in June 2007. The previous exhibition, 2D>3D, won three Gold Awards for UK designers, confirming the UK's reputation for performance and design.

The Gambler, Opera Zuid at Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht / 2005, Set design: Dick Bird.