The phrase "adept performance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a skillful or proficient execution of a task or activity.
Example: "The dancer's adept performance captivated the audience and earned her a standing ovation."
Alternatives: "skilled execution" or "proficient display".
Art as an adept performance: Hals's "Boy with a Lute" (circa 1625).
By Peter Schjeldahl Art as an adept performance: Hals's "Boy with a Lute" (circa 1625).
One aspect of Clinton's adept performance last night was that at every opportunity, she tried to change the subject from her Democratic opponents to the Republicans.
Frances McDormand contributes her usually adept performance as Miss Clavel, and a production team not known for treacle has given the film a spare visual sophistication.
Hals showed them how candid technique could serve the direct registration of people and things as they really appear: art as an adept performance, in a streaming present tense.
Annie, brought to life in an adept, naturalistic performance by Ms. Louttit, is a New York fixture: a young person who came to the city from out of town (Florida, in her case) and seems to be just floating anonymously in the urban universe.
The Bournemouth Symphony, in technically adept, bracing performances, plays like a top-notch orchestra.
In his review in Variety, Todd McCarthy called it "both sharp and fleet" and "a satisfying screen version of Stephen Sondheim's landmark 1979 theatrical musical... things have turned out uniformly right thanks to highly focused direction by Tim Burton, expert screw-tightening by scenarist John Logan, and haunted and musically adept lead performances from Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
More showman than shaman — he holds his followers in thrall with jokes, dinner-table toasts and bawdy songs — Dodd is so adept at the performance of sincerity that he may long ago have fooled himself into believing the bizarre doctrines he seems to pull out of thin air.
While some of the company members are indeed adept in conventional performance modes (a woman who plays the piano, a stilt walker, a pair of roughhouse comedians with crackerjack timing), much of what they do doesn't take us beyond the threshold of their interior worlds.
To judge from these technically adept and expressive performances (coached by the excellent Baroque violinist Robert Mealy), the early-music program is off to a strong start.
