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?]
(..) Once made a joke at my expense. Got a big laugh out of it. What was it? How may I help you? The door to the right, please. That was quite a performance. The little shit should know better than to play politics with me. I know I got in front of you, old friend. I did what I thought was best. (..)2006 The Da Vinci Code