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?]
(..) keep myself stinking drunk, and no one will be able to tell the difference. Have a little faith, sir. Now, would you favor us with a performance, Mr. Root? You'd drink, too, if you knew the world half as well as I do. Did you think you were unique? I've been Caesar, I've played Faust. (..)2006 The Prestige
(..) so can the blokes at the ends of rows three and four! You're wrong. It can't be. - Look at the man. - This is the trick. This is the performance. Right here. This is why no one can detect his method. Total devotion to his art. A lot of self-sacrifice. You know. (..)2006 The Prestige