About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different performance artists from England and abroad collected from 1979 to 1983, amongst them: Tibor Hajas (Hungary), Rasa Todosijevic (Yugoslavia), Iain Robertson (Scotland), Zbigniew Warpechowski (Poland), Milan Knizak (Czechoslovakia), Natalia LL (Poland), Ewa Partum (Poland), Jan Mlcoch (Czechoslovakia), Sonia Knox (Northern Ireland), Jerzy Beres (Poland) and Stuart Brisley (England). The film also records the Haxey Hood and Padstow Hobbyhorse folk dances from Lincolnshire and Cornwall respectively.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| TTibor HajasHimself (archive footage) | Himself (archive footage) |
| DDragoljub 'Raša' TodosijevićHimself (archive footage) | Himself (archive footage) |
 Iain RobertsonHimself (archive footage) | Himself (archive footage) |
| ZZbigniew WarpechowskiHimself (archive footage) | Himself (archive footage) |
| MMilan KnížákHimself (archive footage) | Himself (archive footage) |
| EEwa PartumHerself (archive footage) | Herself (archive footage) |
| JJan MlcochHimself (archive footage) | Himself (archive footage) |
| SSonia KnoxHerself (archive footage) | Herself (archive footage) |
| JJerzy BeresHimself (archive footage) | Himself (archive footage) |