The catalogue of the exhibition is at the height

How can the art of movement par excellence to comply with the constraints of the Museum The issue is not new and each dance exhibition responds with its means and its ideas. At the end of the year, London was transformed with happiness in choreographic laboratory. Expected by many, the tribute of the Victoria & Albert Museum to Diaghilev and the Ballets russes landmark: behind a striking red façade, the English Museum extends its treasures - and a few loans.

Here, not of unbridled but staged a scenography which used the invention in this company which marked the beginning of the 20th century. This book of images life-size is rich costumes, without doubt the most beautiful imagined for the dance. On a carousel, found thus wonders sweet names "Thamar", "The butterflies" or "The bird of fire". These incredible creations for the time.

Alexandre Benois at Leon Bakst without forgetting Natalia Goncharova, it is an explosion of reasons, forms and colours. With influences from Russian folklore or modernity displayed. Suddenly, the magic of the Ballets russes comes alive. This rose of tissues, it is that of the spectrum; These gowns were worn for "Le Sacre du printemps"... The emotion is intense: idem for the scene of the "Train Bleu" curtain, signed Picasso, or, more rarely, a background scene for "The bird of fire", "the greatest purpose of the V & A", dixit the cartel! The videos explain the contribution of Diaghilev and his troops (Fokine, Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina) the art of Terpsichore. It again.

Signs set the Ballets russes in their context, the difficult beginnings until the end of the company, dispersed between Monte Carlo and world tours. A leak in front. The catalogue of the exhibition is at the height.

Across the River Thames, it is to any travel that the Hayward Gallery invites his audience: Move, subtitled "Choreographing You", passes in review the interactions between art and dance since the 1950s until today. The visitor becomes a time "Dancer", sliding between the narrow walls of the Green Light Corridor of Bruce Nauman, amount on a plate balancing of Robert Morris. Or in trying at a crossing in high-risk devised by choreographer William Forsythe: "the fact of matter" is composed of a series of suspended rings that can be practice.

Move is also an experience "live" with the presence of young dancers who participate in "Production" of the tandem Xavier Le Roy and Marten Spangberg. And Saturdays from noon, Trio A, choreographer Simone Forti, the current "post-modern dance", is given to see. Nice idea to transform the showrooms in show during! Between a Court of Hula Hop and a video in 3D with the dancer Wayne McGregor, it will take the time to consult Move Archive nuggets: a fabulous catalogue of films of one hundred artists télescopant Merce Cunningham and Marina Abramovic, Boris Charmatz and Tracy Emin. A must.

Move will leave later toured en Germany. Still missed for the France. But the Centre Pompidou will bring its own choreographic exhibition. In the meantime, it is in London that the dance made waves.