Erwan Ker­avec and Alban Richard met in 2017, while they were work­ing on a piece com­mis­sioned by POP, for the cre­ation of Breath­is­dan­cing, a con­cert-per­form­ance they’d shared with sing­er Audrey Chen. Since then, they have reg­u­larly per­formed togeth­er in per­form­ances such as Buées, or Altered Dance in numer­ous her­it­age and nat­ur­al sites…

Daou (two in Bre­ton) was born of Erwan and Alban’s desire to share their research, exper­i­ment­a­tion and friend­ship with audi­ences: without any arti­fice, they sculpt the air of the chosen venue.

For Daou is a pro­ject that can only be per­formed in spaces that are not ded­ic­ated to live per­form­ance: in barns, indus­tri­al build­ings, churches, sheds, halls, museums, gal­ler­ies, gym­nas­i­ums, school play­grounds, beaches, forests…
Spec­tat­ors-listen­ers wander around the two per­formers for the dur­a­tion of this music­al and cho­reo­graph­ic performance.

In Daou, Alban Richard’s phys­ic­al and vocal prac­tice relies on the vocal­iz­a­tion of breath, the expan­sion and com­pres­sion of air with­in his body, to shape a dance made up of apneas, inhal­a­tions and exhal­a­tions, restraint and explo­sions of energy, recur­ring motifs and the explor­a­tion of the emer­ging unknown. The rela­tion­ship with air imme­di­ately evokes throat games, invoc­a­tions of spir­its and pagan trance rituals…

Erwan Ker­avec, a bag­piper, is research­ing peri­pher­al sounds and the ways in which his instru­ment is played and listened to. Far removed from his nat­ive cul­ture, he explores impro­vised music, from free jazz to noise, and builds up a rep­er­toire of con­tem­por­ary music for solo bag­pipe, or trio with voice and choir. Curi­ous about move­ment, rela­tion­ships and situ­ations con­du­cive to rein­ven­tion, he also com­poses, plays and impro­vises for dance.