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Wikipedia-Article "Performance"
A performance comprises an event in which generally one group of people (the performer or performers) behave in a particular way for another group of people (the viewer or viewers, or audience). Sometimes the dividing line between performer and audience may become blurred, as in the example of "participatory theatre" where audience members might get involved in the theatrical event.
Examples of performance genres include:
- musical genres:
- theatrical genres:
- other genres:
- circus acts
- performance art
Performances might take place daily, or at some other regular interval.
Similar activities 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 becomes the performance (execution) of an experiment.
A music performance (a concert or a recital) may take place indoors in a concert hall or outdoors in a field, and may require the audience to remain very quiet, or encourage them to sing and dance along with the music. In a street concert by one or more street musicians (or, in British English, buskers), often the public consists of people who happen to pass by. Such performers do not require payment, but do welcome it. See extended technique.
Similarly other street artists may carry out street performances, e.g. performing acrobatics. The same applies in other public places.
The word performance may also describe the way in which an actor(ess), or artiste in such a production performs. Or in a solo capacity; such as a mime artist, comedian, conjurer, etc.
Performance, as in What a performance! is also used sarcastically in reference to an individual's overwrought or excessive emotional outbursts.
In engineering, performance relates to measuring some output or behaviour. Techniques for monitoring performance include:
Computing performance provides a case in point for engineering performance - see:
Performance, in a business context, a sub-set of engineering performance, refers to the activity of a unit (be it individual, team, department, or division) of an organization intended to accomplish some desired result.
See also
Wikipedia-Article "Capacity"
Capacity may mean one of the following:
- Capacity, when used with the mathematics meaning, is another word for volume
- Legal capacity refers to the legal ability to engage in certain acts, such as making a contract
- Cranial capacity is a measure of the volume of the interior of the skull
- Carrying capacity, in ecology, is the ability of an environment to sustain a particular species
- Heat capacity, also called thermal capacity, is the ability of matter to store heat.
- Toxic capacity is the ability of an organism, organic system or ecosystem to sustain introduction of a toxin.
- A large capacity magazine is an ammunition feeding device for use in a firearm that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
- Analytic capacity is a mathematical function.
- Seating capacity refers to the number of people who can be seated in a venue, either in terms of the space available, or in terms of limitations set by law.
- Color rendering capacity, in photometry, is a measure of how broad a color space can be perceived under the illumination of a specific light.
- Capacity utilization is a term in economics referring to the relationship of actual to potential output of industries.
Other forms of capacity include: