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None of us follows a single vision; instead, our very visions are products of growth and adaptation, not fixed but emergent. - · Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life The editors of Teaching Performance Studies launch their introduction with a provocative statement: Beginning a book with the words performance studies announces at the outset 'turbulence ahead.' Other authors in the collection make use of writing as performance and as another dimension of embodiment, as Craig Gingrich-Philbrook details in "The Queer Performance That Will Have Been; Student-Teachers in the Archive," and Michael S. Bowman and Ruth Laurion Bowman describe in "Performing the Mystory: A Textshop in Autoperformance.\n Teaching Performance Studies, as I stated earlier, is wide-ranging and its eighteen essays address many other aspects of performance pedagogy from theories and practices of acting (Phillip B. Zarilli, "Action, Structure, Task, and Emotion") to employing performance studies outside the academy Cynthia Wimmer, "?