As the festive celebration of the French Spring continues, Alliance Française de Manille and the French Embassy take you to a scintillating exploration of a variety of artistic worlds.

On Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 8PM, O Ultimo Momento, a modern circus company performs their newest acrobatic show at the RCBC Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium.

Chinese pole acrobat and video artist, João Paulo dos Santos, and roller-skating musician, Guillaume Dutrieux will astound you with their duet of skills, producing remarkable circus artistry straight from their imagination. In their show “peut-être” (=maybe), the two artists, João and Guillaume, play on our sense of space, creating an adventure involving sights and sounds that entice and challenge our concepts of above or below, horizontal and vertical, real and virtual. Blurring our perception, this electronically recorded spectacle will redefine the phrase “Things are not what they seem.” Gravity being inverted, performers multiplying on stage; every move is a feat that shouldn’t be missed. Dangerous yet tempting, O Ultimo Momento is not your typical circus show. It will take you to experience the incomparable intoxication of height and the excitement of falling. The manifestations of space and time will be reinvented through this dazzling trip through art in action. For ticket inquiries please contact Alliance at 895-7585.

On Saturday, June 7, at 8PM go on an enchanting voyage that will forever be etched in your memory through the show, with the modern dance company Etha Dam at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Little Theater.

The Etha Dam opus entitled Aduna, Land of Adventures, takes the audience to a journey into the unknown, a quest filled with surprises and emotions. This performance will definitely captivate the audience as it features the company’s glittering style and marvelous technique. Lights and music will spice up this performance as the colors, rhythm and the dancers’ startling movements create beautiful scenery. Etha Dam has received immense plaudits with this enthralling spectacle has impressed in different parts of the world including Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, England, Italy, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Senegal.

French dance virtuosos, Etha Dam, created in 1998 by Ibrahim Sissoko, has revolutionized hip-hop dance with their original and dynamic technique of incorporating elements of theatre dance techniques, African dance and the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira. The distinct creative spirit of the company has become its trademark, as they perform with utter precision, sensibility and energy.