This chapter presents a perspective on how embodied practices situated in performance environments such as sports and the performing arts (i.e., music and dance) can support perception-action links. Drawing on literature on embodied cognition, ecological psychology, and recent research that applies motion capture technology, we outline how performance competencies can be grounded on the capacities of the human body, with a particular emphasis on sensorimotor skills. We argue that the coupling of action and perception is fundamentally established in ecologically valid performance contexts. Action-perception relationships can be optimally investigated in performance domains where sensorimotor skills unfold naturally (e.g., in development and learning) and are manifested at their best (e.g., in expert performance). The contribution of such an approach is to uncover the mechanisms upon which social cognition is established, and how body-environment interactions can be implemented for the training of performing individuals.