Event planners hope to avoid a 'repeat performance' of last year's problems. [=hope that last year's problems will not happen again this year]
a bicyclist who was disqualified for taking 'performance'-enhancing drugs [=drugs that improve your ability to do something]
How has the company's stock 'performance' been? [=has the value of the company's stock been increasing/decreasing?]
(..) on a tour and... Now the hostile vibrations have gone... Attendez! We are ready for your show. - Command performance! - Come on, Mama. We're on. Let's give 'em the old pizzazz. ' Ring-a dem bells ' Ring-a dem bells ' We is goin' (..)1957 Funny Face