Performance (disambiguation)

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 (British TV series), British television series
• A Late Quartet, a 2012 film released in Australia under the name Performance

Music

• Performance (soundtrack), the soundtrack album to the 1970 film
• Performance (Eloy album), 1983
• Performance (Spacemen 3 album), 1988
• Performance (White Denim album), 2018
• The Performance, a 2009 album by Shirley Bassey
• "Performance", a song by Priestess from the album Hello Master

Other media

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

Other uses in arts and media

• Performance Channel, a former UK Cable and Satellite channel

Business processes

• Job performance, a measure of the effectiveness of an employee
• Performance engineering
• Performance improvement
• Performance management
• Performance measurement
• Performance problem (organizational development)

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
• A ritual in a religious or occult setting

Other uses

• The execution of an experiment in science
• Landing performance of a fixed-wing aircraft

See also

• Performance testing (disambiguation)