Performance art is like a dragonfly: an awkwardly beautiful creature that only lives in the current of a moment, soon to be just a memory. This book opens a path to a realm of performance art guided by experienced artist-educators, who write about their passions as artists and practices as teachers in Finnish universities. These essays are a profound collection of views to aid understanding performance art as a cultural phenomenon and a creative tool. The writers Tuomas Laitinen, Annette Arlander, Tero Nauha, Eero Yli-Vakkuri, Leena Kela, Pilvi Porkola, Jussi Matilainen and Pia Lindy, with the editor Aapo Korkeaoja, all approach performance art and pedagogy from different angles. Several methods on how to engage and understand body, concentration, human presence, identity, vocabulary, culture, politics, art history and activism are introduced. Inventive feedback and dialogue cultures are shared with the readers, as well as a range of personal experiences in various situations at workshops and performance grounds. The book also introduces vocabulary and concepts that have grown in relation to performance art - an art that eventually escapes all definitions.