Performance Studies in Motion offers multiple perspectives on the current field of performance studies and suggests its future directions‎.‎ Featuring new essays by pioneers Richard Schechner and Barbara Kirshenblatt‎-Gimblett‎,‎ and by international scholars and practitioners‎,‎ it shows how performance can offer a new way of seeing the world‎,‎ and testifies to the dynamism of this discipline‎.‎ Beginning with an overview of the development of performance studies‎,‎ the essays offer new insights into‎:‎ contemporary experimental and postdramatic theatre‎;‎ participatory performance and museum exhibitions‎;‎ the performance of politicians‎,‎ political institutions and grassroots protest movements‎;‎ theatricality at war and in contemporary religious rituals‎,‎ and performative practices in therapy‎,‎ education and life sciences‎.‎ Employing original reflexive approaches to concrete case studies and situations‎,‎ contributors introduce a variety of applications of performance studies methodologies to contemporary culture‎,‎ art and society‎,‎ creating new interdisciplinary links between the arts‎,‎ humanities‎,‎ and social and natural sciences‎.‎ With studies from and about places as diverse as Austria‎,‎ Belgium‎,‎ China‎,‎ France‎,‎ Germany‎,‎ Israel‎,‎ Korea‎,‎ Palestine‎,‎ the Philippines‎,‎ Poland‎,‎ Rwanda and the USA‎,‎ Performance Studies in Motion showcases the vitality and breadth of the field today‎.‎