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A performance, in performing arts, is generally an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people.

Performance may also refer to:

Arts and media

• Performance art, art work presented within a fine art context
• Performing arts, in which artists use their voices or bodies for artistic expression

Film and television

• Performance (film), a 1970 film starring James Fox and Mick Jagger
• Performance (TV series), British television series
• A Late Quartet, a 2012 film released in Australia under the name Performance
• Performance Channel, a former UK cable and satellite channel

Music

• Performance (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the 1970 film, or the title song by Bernie Krause and Merry Clayton
• Performance (Eloy album), 1983
• Performance (Marti Webb album), 1989
• Performance (Spacemen 3 album), 1988
• Performance (White Denim album) or the title song, 2018
• The Performance, an album by Shirley Bassey, 2009
• Performance (EP), by Kylie Minogue, 2010
• Rising (Donovan album), 1990; re-released as Performance, 1997
• "Performance", a song by Priestess from Hello Master, 2005
• "Performance", a song by the xx from I See You, 2017
• "Performance", a concert tour in 1991 by the English duo The Pet Shop Boys

Other media

• Performance!, a 2000 book of photographs by Clive Barda

Business processes

• Job performance, a measure of the effectiveness of an employee
• Performance engineering
• Performance improvement
• Performance management
• Performance measurement

Computing

• Computer performance
  • Performance analysis
  • Performance tuning
  • Software performance testing
• Network performance

Humanities and social sciences

• Linguistic performance, the act of producing an utterance
• The performative turn, a paradigmatic shift in the humanities and social sciences
  • Performative text, in philosophy of language
• Performance of a contract, in law
  • Specific performance, a legal remedy
• A ritual in a religious or occult setting

Other uses

• Performance (textiles), capacity of textiles to withstand certain conditions
• The execution of an experiment in science