Following the Way: Worlding Performance in Contemporary Cambodia is an ethnographic study and performance analysis of contemporary Cambodian music, dance, and performance art. Examining the tensions of tradition and contemporary, the project assesses how contemporary Cambodian performance reflects a confluence of temporalities inclusive of court and classical practices alongside diasporic, cosmopolitan, queer, and feminist styles, practices, and influences. Thinking about what is contemporary engages histories of war, genocide, imperialism, and displacement that have impacted Cambodia and its peoples, and envisions a transnationally and globally situated Cambodia. Intervention through the idea of following as theory and method is informed by time studying Khmer classical music and dance as well as involvement with production for the queer artist collective Amogkhabas - The Next Generation. Following as a social, embodied, and ethnographic practice considers the limits of mimetic transfer while imagining and expressing citational, revisionist, and reparative connections. Ultimately, Following the Way unmoors and reorients contemporary Cambodian subjectivities from nationalist narratives, worlding contemporary Cambodia towards new possibilities.