Tapanak means "the ark" in Armenian...   

After forty days at sea in a storm, an ark runs aground on an unknown land; the clouds part, a new world appears. To the sound of ancient music from Armenia, the Balkans and the Middle East, this pictorial musical tale tells the story of the discovery of this new land at a child's level. On the screen, characters and finely chiselled sets come to life in a graphic universe of light and shadow. 

Born from the collaboration between the musicians of Canticum Novum, the video artists of La Louce and the author Julien Tauber, Tapanak is an extraordinary epic, which invites us to a journey from the Caucasus mountains to the shores of the Mediterranean. 

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Ensemble  Canticum  Novum :  

Emmanuel  Bardon  : chant  
Aliocha Regnard  :  nyckelharpa et fidula  
Spyros  Halaris  :  kanun  
Gwénaël  Bihan  : flûtes 
Henri-Charles  Caget  : percussions 

Marijke  Bedleem  : comédienne 
Julien  Tauber  : texte  

La Louce  (Marine  Delcroix  et Vincent Rubin)  : création vidéo  (mapping) 

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L’ensemble CANTICUM NOVUM est conventionné par la Ville de Saint-Étienne, le Département de la Loire, la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes et la DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes et, de manière occasionnelle, reçoit le soutien du CNM et de la SPEDIDAM. Pour TAPANAK, l’ensemble bénéfice du soutien de l’Adami et du FCM.