The phrase "a knack for performance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who has a natural talent or skill for performing, whether in arts, sports, or other activities.
Example: "She has always had a knack for performance, captivating audiences with her stage presence."
Alternatives: "a talent for performance" or "an aptitude for performance."
In "Magic Mike, Soderberghh clearly delineates his view of the two sides of entertainment: there's Mike's world, in which the protagonist (Channing Tatum) finds that he has a knack for performance, devotes himself to it honestly and hard-workingly, but instrumentalizes it — and, when he has gotten out of it all he can, he quits and devotes himself to the modest craft of furniture-making.
To survive in a job market where openings for full-time orchestral positions are increasingly scarce, younger musicians need to demonstrate not only a mastery of the canon but also a knack for historically informed performance practice, the techniques of the avant-garde and the vernacular of jazz and pop.
He has a knack for focusing on performance metrics that hold hospitals accountable.
Kenny Wheeler, "What Now?" (CAM Jazz): The Canadian brassman Wheeler, here concentrating on the flugelhorn, has a knack for eliciting vital performances from his sidemen.
Anna Shapiro, who was recently named the new artistic director of Steppenwolf, has a knack for bringing out great performances.
But Ms. DuVall, who attracted some notice as one of Winona Ryder's fellow patients in "Girl, Interrupted," has a knack for understatement that makes her performance believable and affecting.
With the modest ukulele and a knack for storytelling, Shimabukuro's March 24 performance evoked a wide range of emotions.
THE performance artist Nao Bustamante has a knack for using her body.
THE choreographer and performance artist Ann Carlson has a knack for astonishing audiences with simplicity.
Some people are good storytellers because they have a knack for describing details in words and the narrator adds his or her own unique performance to the telling.
