Performance vs Ballet - What's the difference?
performance | ballet | Synonyms |
The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
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That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
A live show or concert.
(computer science) The amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system compared to the time and resources used.
A classical form of dance.
A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
The company of persons who perform this dance.
(music) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa-la burden or chorus, most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
(heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.
(Webster 1913)