LAST year it was anarchic mountain bikers turning somersaults and staging mock battles around the roof of a honking Renault 5.
This year it is a menage-a-trois on a couch in front of a 1950s television set, with the two women and lucky man swinging from elastic cords, dancing and jumping together in a satire of Fred Astaire.
Archaos, the crazy French circus performers who came to the 1994 festival bearing chainsaws and blow torches, were so popular among the Hong Kong audiences that the organisers invited what could be an even crazier, even more unusual, group for next year's festival.
Philippe Decoufle's Petites Pieces Montees (as one American critic pointed out, it was unclear whether the name means 'little assembled pieces' or 'short theatrical works that go zoom') will be the circus highlight of the Arts Festival.
This is the first piece that Decoufle choreographed since his specially-created show was an unmitigated success at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville.
The extraordinary images of airborne acrobats bouncing on giant bungee ropes, dancers on tall stilts and crazy flying contraptions gave Decoufle instant worldwide recognition and led him to be dubbed France's leading choreographer: he was only 30 at the time.