Performance
A performance is an event in which generally one group of people (the performer or performers) behave in a particular way for the benefit of another group of people (the viewer or viewers, or audience). Sometimes the dividing line between performer and audience is blurred, as in the example of "participatory theatre" where audience members might be involved in the theatrical event.Examples of perfomance genres include:
Performances might take place daily, or at some other regular interval.Similar activties can take place in a religious or occult setting whereby the performance becomes a ritual. In a scientific setting, the carrying out of predetermined actions in a controlled environment is the performance of an experiment.
A music performance is called a concert or a recital. It may be indoors in a concert hall or outdoors in a field, and people may be required to be very quiet, or they may be able to sing and dance along with the music. In a street concert by one or more street musicians, often the public consists of people who happen to pass by; paying is not compulsory, but welcomed.
Similarly street performances are carried out by other street artists, e.g. performing acrobatics. The same applies in other public places.
The word is also used to describe the 'performance' of an actor(ess), or artiste in such a production. Or in a solo capacity; such as a mime artist, comedian, conjurer, etc.
See also Performance art.
Some special concerts:
- Concert For George
- Concert for Bangladesh
- Vienna New Year's Concert
- The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
- Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert
- Concert in Central Park by Simon and Garfunkel
Performance, in a business context, refers to the activity of a unit (be it individual, team, department, or division) of an organization intended to accomplish some desired result.
