The vision of large blue light beams leaving from the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel and plunging into the dark night, to the sound of electro music, is quite breathtaking. Goodbye golden-hued lighting that gently highlights the monument on other days. Friday September 10, a performance organized from the terrace gave a vaguely kitsch, but lively allure to the Mont. The show was due to DJ Michaël Canitrot, who set himself the goal of attracting the eye of young people to the great heritage.
“Thanks to the work on the light, the abbey seemed to float in the air,”
says the DJ. The latter, who played without an audience because of Covid-19, will broadcast his electro performance on September 19 on C8 and on social networks. And it
"should work"
, calculates the new director of the site, Thomas Velter, who has just launched a project to redo the lighting of the Mont as a whole, by 2024.
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