Fol­low­ing a com­mis­sion from the Fest­iv­al de Corn­ou­aille to pay trib­ute to kan ha diskan, Annie Ebrel invites Alban Richard to meet four sing­ers who spe­cial­ise in this a cap­pella Bre­ton song, which gets hun­dreds of people dan­cing at festoù-noz.

The piece Kanañ(“To sing” in Bre­ton) draws on research and on the col­lect­ing of songs, texts and inter­views. It builds a trib­ute to this very spe­cif­ic vocal prac­tice, and to four of its most illus­tri­ous per­formers: Manuel Kerjean, Érik Marchand, Mar­cel Le Guil­loux and Yann-Fañch Kemener.

Kanañ con­tin­ues the work Alban Richard has been car­ry­ing out in recent years, in which the per­formers take part sim­ul­tan­eously in cre­at­ing both the cho­reo­graphy and the music. Breath, vocal endur­ance, the rela­tion­ship to rhythms stamped out by the feet, and the phys­ic­al con­tact between the sing­ers lay the found­a­tions of the cho­reo­graph­ic work for the per­formers of Kanañ.

This sung and danced con­cert is also an oppor­tun­ity for Annie Ebrel to assert her determ­in­a­tion to carry the poet­ic and polit­ic­al val­ues of a tra­di­tion and of a trans­mis­sion that is con­stantly renewed in the present.

Kanañis an all-ter­rain show that can be set up just as well in a her­it­age site, a gym­nas­i­um, a theatre, a barn, in the middle of a vil­lage square or in a schoolyard.

Kanañis access­ible to all audi­ences and suited to all ven­ues, as it is designed to meet loc­al res­id­ents in their own territories.