A performance, in performing arts, is generally an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people. Performance may also refer to: Arts and media Performance art, art work presented within a fine art context Performing arts, in which artists use their voices or bodies for artistic expression Film and television Performance (film), a 1970 film starring James Fox and Mick Jagger Performance (TV series), British television series A Late Quartet, a 2012 film released in Australia under the name Performance Performance Channel, a former UK cable and satellite channel Music Performance (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the 1970 film, or the title song by Bernie Krause and Merry Clayton Performance (Eloy album), 1983 Performance (Marti Webb album), 1989 Performance (Spacemen 3 album), 1988 Performance (White Denim album) or the title song, 2018 The Performance, an album by Shirley Bassey, 2009 Performance (EP), by Kylie Minogue, 2010 Rising (Donovan album), 1990; re-released as Performance, 1997 "Performance", a song by Priestess from Hello Master, 2005 "Performance", a song by the xx from I See You, 2017 "Performance", a concert tour in 1991 by the English duo The Pet Shop Boys Other media Performance!, a 2000 book of photographs by Clive Barda Business processes Job performance, a measure of the effectiveness of an employee Performance engineering Performance improvement Performance management Performance measurement Computing Computer performance Performance analysis Performance tuning Software performance testing Network performance Humanities and social sciences Linguistic performance, the act of producing an utterance The performative turn, a paradigmatic shift in the humanities and social sciences Performative text, in philosophy of language Performance of a contract, in law A ritual in a religious or occult setting Other uses Performance (textiles), capacity of textiles to withstand certain conditions The execution of an experiment in science Aircraft performance, including landing performance See also Performance testing (disambiguation)