  We discuss a new approach to strong coupling expansion and dual
representations for non-abelian lattice gauge theories. The Wilson gauge action
is decomposed into a sum over "abelian color cycles" (ACC), which are loops
around plaquettes visiting different colors at the corners. ACCs are complex
numbers and thus commute such that a dual representation of a non-abelian
theory can be obtained as in the abelian case. We apply the ACC approach to
SU(2) and SU(3) lattice gauge theory and exactly rewrite the two partition sums
in a strong coupling series where all gauge integrals are known in closed form.
