REPRESENTATIVES from China, Taiwan and Hongkong sharing the same stage and what's more, getting along famously? It may not be the big breakthrough, but 3D, being presented tonight and tomorrow night at the Arts Centre's Shouson Theatre demonstrates that the world of dance has the edge on politics any day.
The title has a double meaning; not just the obvious, but three gifted dancer-choreographers who will each present two short works.
Sheng Pui-qi, trained in classical Chinese dance at the Beijing Dance Academy and currently a guest lecturer at the Academy for Performing Arts (APA), will perform The River of Tears and The Butterfly Lovers - both given awards by China's Ministry of Culture in 1988.
Ku Ming-shen, who received her BA in dance at the Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, and her master's in fine arts from the University of Illinois, will dance Memory Lost and I was a choreographer. Finally, Mui Cheuk-yin, former principal with the Hongkong Dance Company and winner of the 1992 Best Dancer of the Year award presented by the Hongkong Artists' Guild, will perform Awakening in a Dream and Forest Whisper.
THE posters show three grinning faces in a field. They belong to Jo Thones and brothers Markus and Simon Stockhausen, jointly known as Aparis.
The members of this hot new German jazz trio will make their Hongkong debut this weekend at the Cultural Centre Studio Theatre and the sounds - trumpets, flugelhorn, synthesisers, sax and drums - promise to be lively.
Aparis' aim, says its presenter, the Urban Council, is ''the harmonic interweaving of composed and improvised material embracing a wide range of styles''.