The phrase "cinematic performance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a performance that evokes the aesthetic of a movie, such as a live theatre production or a particularly vivid speech. For example: "His speech had a truly cinematic performance, with broad gestures and pauses for dramatic effect."
For all the cosmetics and the costumes, the scripts and the sets, that adorn movies with their air of artifice, cinematic performance is essentially documentary.
"Personally, I think Gary gave the absolute definition of a cinematic performance: he does almost nothing, yet is the most compelling person on the screen.
Her magnificent Act III invocation "Lord, to Thee each Night and Day," as seen on a tape released by Kultur, has the visionary quality of Falconetti as St. Joan in Carl Dreyer's silent movie "The Passion of Joan of Arc," which many film buffs regard as the ultimate cinematic performance.
But one of my best friends showed me that Grand Theft Auto V includes a wealth of surreal post-game "cinematic performance art pieces" that he calls "dreams".
Author Thomas Doherty wrote in his 2002 book Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenalization of American Movies in the 1950s: "In Jailhouse Rock, the treatment of rock 'n' roll music, both as narrative content and as cinematic performance is knowing and respectful .
In the early 1990's he created a series of cinematic performance-based pictures of nude models lying, as if asleep or dead, in desolate landscapes.
As with many great cinematic performances, it is all in the eyes.
Previously, such virtual cinematic performances with live audience interaction were confined to research labs equipped with powerful computers.
Neal's art reflects a stunning collection of cinematic performances from an actress who also conquered the stage and overcame a series of debilitating strokes and tragic losses.
Most importantly, his insane, overblown preparations seem to work, because they've allowed him to turn in some of the most intense, dynamic, and brilliant cinematic performances of the last 30 years.
Van Hove's great trick is to balance detailed, low-key and almost cinematic naturalistic performances within a non-naturalistic framework and let them bounce off each other in a series of dazzling reflections that enable us to see Miller's play anew.
