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?]
(..) John Doe, easy name to remember. He had a limp. - What was this job you did for him? - I've got a picture. One sweet piece, actually. I thought he was a performance artist. You know the sort of guy that... pisses in a cup on stage and then... drinks it. Performance art. Right. (..)1995 Se7en