The phrase "and started the performance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the initiation of a show, play, concert, or any type of performance event.
Example: "The audience settled into their seats, and started the performance with a dramatic opening scene."
Alternatives: "and commenced the performance" or "and began the performance."
In August, the couple attended the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, at which Beyoncé performed "Love on Top" and started the performance saying "Tonight I want you to stand up on your feet, I want you to feel the love that's growing inside of me".
At 5, the 99 percussionists filed into the field, retrieved the smaller instruments and started the performance with gentle windlike sounds.
Taking a moment to ask the audience how they are feeling, Madonna declared, "I was never elected homecoming queen, but I sure feel like one now," and started the performance of "Into the Groove", playing a tambourine.
So once this sight of me with a cabbage on a leash was habituated, that's when we decided to act and start the performance and walk the cabbage.
The performance was a re-enactment of the music video and Minogue started the performance standing atop a pyramid of underwear-clad dancers.
YU CHEN, New York, posted on nytimes.com MANDY PATINKIN I attended Mandy Patinkin's 2002 performance of "Celebrating Sondheim," and he stopped the show 20 minutes in and started the entire performance over.
It is both a floor for the dancers and a projection screen for the lightning-fast spirals, vectors, pulsating waves and rippling computer graphics that start the performance, exploding to a sharp, rat-a-tat beat as if generated by the sound.
An Italian coalition?" Giuliani stepped forward and also hugged Steinbrenner and started dissecting the performance of Luis Sojo, who drove in the winning run.
In order to increase the efficiency of the solar air collector and to improve their thermal efficiency in terms of operating time, hot outlet air temperature and starting operation time, the performance of a compact phase change material solar air heater collector based on latent heat storage energy was investigated.
Molecular Imprinted Materials (MIM) has proved to be an interesting methodology for protein analysis however further studies of the effect of the experimental parameters and starting materials in the performance of the MIM are still required.
