PERFORMANCE

[noun] [C]A performance is the action of entertaining other people by dancing, singing, acting or playing music.They gave a superb performance of Arthur Miller's play 'The Crucible'.(esp. UK informal disapproving) If you describe a person's behaviour as a performance, you mean that they are behaving badly, usually because they are angry or upset.What a performance! Please stop shouting!(UK) If something that you do is a performance, it involves a lot of work and takes a long time to do.Cleaning the oven is such a performance.A repeat performance is when an event or a situation happens again.The police hope to avoid a repeat performance of last year, when the festivities turned into rioting.Performance art is a type of theatrical entertainment in which the artist's personality and creative processes form part of the show.