"demanding performance" is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used to describe a situation in which a high level of effort and skill is expected from someone. Example: The CEO of the company gave a speech demanding performance from all employees in order to reach their quarterly goals.
These 7200 RPM SATA drives are designed for the more demanding user and are optimized for "demanding performance, power consumption, and durability requirements".
The new chief executive has been relentless in demanding performance from individual facilities, one-fifth of which he identified as poor performers in early 2001.
I didn't enjoy all of Jenkinson's sometimes demanding performance, but I appreciated all of it.
Robin Hood's successful needle-exchange programme is run by a former addict.The new philanthropists are not shy about demanding performance.
Do not distract those who work in the core Box 1 business from their demanding performance goals.
After a string of perky, cornbread roles over the past two decades, Bullock can also claim to have substantially reinvented herself with this grim-faced, physically demanding performance.
In Philadelphia, the school board is also demanding performance-based merit pay, adding 75 minutes to each school day, adding five days to each school year, and getting rid of some of the seniority preferences that base school staffing not on what a principal thinks is best, but on how much seniority a teacher has.
Following Whiplash, Miles Teller continues his run of physically committed, brutally demanding performances.
In addition, as in "Stop, Repair, Prepare," these two works present demanding performances carried out under compromised conditions, in this case idiosyncratic gym equipment.
Their development is driven by highly demanding performances of the vertex detector foreseen at the future linear collider.
I'm in awe of Brooke and the other dancers, as they manage to deliver such commanding and physically demanding performances while exuding femininity and glamour.
