The phrase "a powerful performance by" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an impressive or impactful performance, typically in the context of theater, film, music, or other artistic expressions.
Example: "The audience was captivated by a powerful performance by the lead actor, who brought the character to life with incredible depth."
Alternatives: "an impressive performance from" or "a remarkable performance by".
(Isherwood) 'THE SKIN GAME' A powerful performance by James Gale propels the Mint Theater's revival of "The Skin Game".
A powerful performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which has a longstanding presence in Kansas City, was spottily attended on Wednesday evening.
The match at an unseasonably warm Rapid Solicitors Stadium was over as a contest at half-time after a powerful performance by Tautai, who scored the first two tries before laying on the next for Jon Molloy.
"Time of Favor" radiates outward from a powerful performance by Asi Dayan as a burly, charismatic rabbi who runs a yeshiva in an isolated Jewish settlement on the West Bank.
The evening opened with two dances so blandly generic — though one, "Cold Song," featured a powerful performance by Jason Jordan — that you wondered not where the real Mr. Luna was hiding, but if he indeed existed.
It's most notable in the various pas de deux for the wonderful Ms. Galeazzi and Mr. Pennefather; less successful is the danced treatment of Polyphemus, despite a powerful performance by Mr. Underwood.
Ensemble works with soloists were also hot items, and the festival could not have wanted a more inviting opening piece than George Perle's vigorous, at times surprisingly Beethovenian, Concertino for Piano, Winds and Timpani (1979), in a powerful performance conducted by Mr. Macelaru.
Russia produced a powerful performance as two goals by Alan Dzagoev helped dismantle Czech Republic in their opening Euro 2012 game.
An all-Balanchine program on Tuesday night, highlighted by a powerful performance of "Concerto Barocco," and this season's revival of the 1980 "Ballade" over the weekend at the New York State Theater again defined the distinctiveness of the City Ballet repertory.
Alongside some splendid comedy – the King teasing the unctuously fawning Mayor during an innovative golf game – the play, warmly glowing, became ultimately most affecting in Danny Boyle's production as it moved into a powerful performance of the Mysteries witnessed by the royal party.
The Carter, with its razor-sharp woodwind writing and its dramatic, harmonically thorny piano line, heard in an exquisitely powerful performance by Daan Vandewalle, was by far the more satisfying.
