Cabaret(s), Histoire d’une transmission vivante

The Cabaret Season initiated and supported by the Ministry of Culture is fully part of the momentum to strengthen the visibility and knowledge of this sector launched in 2025 as part of the Plan cabaret. It is rolled out by uniting public and private cultural actors through various events from 18 September to 18 December 2026 throughout mainland France and in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana.

The objective of the Cabaret Season is above all to give visibility to cabarets and their multiple projects, but also to showcase its richness and diversity, as well as to develop an outlook on its developments and history through a diverse, open, and friendly program hosted by very numerous cultural structures. The common threads of the Cabaret Season are: the cancan, cabaret creatures/characters, and ambassadors of the Cabaret Season. They build upon the fundamentals of the Plan Cabaret supported by the Ministry of Culture, structured around the challenges of supporting creation, promoting heritage, and strengthening knowledge of cabaret in its multiple forms.

As part of the Cabaret Season, the photo exhibition Cabaret(s) – Histoire d’une transmission vivante offers a journey between archives and contemporary creations, between memory and today's gaze, to tell the story of an art in perpetual evolution. From grand revues to current stages, it explores what is transmitted — gestures, know-how, shows, characters, and imaginaries — and how each generation seizes upon them to keep cabaret alive, transform it, and reinvent it across territories.