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?]
(..) I realize… passions are high, but I must warn you, the penalty for taking deadly force against a office of the court in the performance of his duty is, you will be hung by the neck until you're dead. May I please remove the warrant from my pocket so you may examine it? – Gimmie. (..)2012 Django Unchained