Vivant Monument: a new season of live performance
The CMN continues its fruitful dialogue with the performing arts, inviting artists to take over its monuments and offer truly unique experiences!
Under the name Vivant Monument, this new regular programme of dance, music, theatre and circus arts brings together today's creative talents and our exceptional heritage. The presence of the performing arts offers new opportunities to reveal monuments in a different way, thanks to tailor-made formats designed to cross the dynamics of addressing audiences keen on the performing arts and visitors passionate about heritage, awakening the imagination and encouraging appropriation by all audiences.
The Vivant monument 2026 programme
Malik Djoudi invites Gaspar Claus MUSIC
In the space of four albums, singer Malik Djoudi has established himself on the French music scene with his silky, chiselled pop, performing at major festivals and as far afield as the Olympia in November 2025. His elegant musical signature has earned him a number of high-profile collaborations with the likes of Étienne Daho, Juliette Armanet, Isabelle Adjani and Philippe Katerine. For the Centre des monuments nationaux, Malik Djoudi revisits his repertoire in an acoustic piano-voice-cello format with musician Gaspar Claus. The deep texture of the cello promises to add fullness to the singer's sensual voice, in search of an acoustic and atmospheric purity.
From March 2026, the tour will visit three monuments:
- Hôtel de la Marine in Paris, on Thursday 19 March at 8.30pm, as part of the Paris Music Festival
- Cloister of Fréjus Cathedral, Wednesday 24 June at 8pm
- Villa E-1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Friday 26 June (schedule to be announced)
Carte blanche to Mille Plateaux - Centre Chorégraphique National La Rochelle DANCE
Tours de La Rochelle, Saturday 2 May, 6pmApartnership between Mille Plateaux, Centre Chorégraphique National de La Rochelle and the Centre des monuments nationaux.
A carte blanche for choreographer Olivia Grandville, director of Mille Plateaux - Centre Chorégraphique National de La Rochelle, who will perform a choreographic installation on four levels of the Lanterne Tower in La Rochelle with nine dancers from her new pieceEn même temps.
On the programme: a series of choreographic performances and the screening of the filmOurs made with César Vayssié and the dancers of Atlantique Ballet Contemporain. Tailor-made for the La Rochelle towers, this programme is a tribute to pure movement, writing and cinema.
Ballet Jogging - Pierre Rigal DANCE
Abbaye de Beaulieu-en-Rouergue, Saturday 30 May at 5.30pmAlsoas part of Monuments en (pleine) forme
Created by choreographer Pierre Rigalfor the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympics and the arrival of the Olympic flame in Marseille, Ballet Jogging is a sporting, artistic and collective performance. A former athlete and still as passionate about running as ever, Pierre Rigal wanted to combine sport and dance, and came up with a show in which the performers are male and female runners.
This new edition of the show, tailor-made for the majestic setting ofBeaulieu-en-Rouergue Abbey, will bring together some fifty passionate runners!
g r oo v e - Soa Ratsifandrihana DANCE
Tours et remparts d'Aigues-Mortes, Saturday 27 June at 7pmSchool performance on Friday 26 June at 2.30pmApartnership between the Centre des monuments nationaux and La Maison danse CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie. With the support of the Yavarhoussen Fund.
g r oo v e invites us to share the pleasure of dance in a dialogue between moving forms and sound, during a hypnotic solo performance in the heart of the towers and ramparts of Aigues-Mortes.
Originally a slang term,grooveoriginated in jazz, and more specifically in swing, at the end of the 1930s.The Franco-Malagasy dancer and choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana plays with this spirit of rhythm and makes it her own.Between the sharp, metallic sounds ofSylvain Darrifourcq's glitch aesthetic and the more instrumental, woody hip hop sounds of Alban Murenzi, she glides between the two musical aesthetics and creates an exchange to the rhythm of her body.
Carte blanche à La Tierce - Tout recommencer and Aux forces mineures DANCE
Abbaye de La Sauve-Majeure, Sunday 21 June at 3.30pm An event produced by the Centre des monuments nationaux and RésoNAnces - pôle supérieur musique et danse Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Carte blanche to the La Tierce company for a musical and choreographic tour of La Sauve-Majeure Abbey, in collaboration with student dancers and musicians from RésoNAnces - Pôle supérieur musique et danse Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Presented during Camping, the festival and international platform of the CND Centre national de la danse.
Stay tuned for the full programme to be announced soon!
