Illness forced Gauthier to halt giving performances in the late 1920s, but she would return to the stage in 1931, giving a concert in Havana, Cuba.
Justin Bieber halted a performance in Spain because his fans weren't clapping properly.
His halting, obdurate performance in a videotaped deposition proved to be a powerful tool for the government in court.
But the show has pulled itself together since its early previews, when performances would halt in mid-action so the backstage crew could fix technical problems with the flying stunts.
On Friday, in the midst of the debt limit battle, the government reported that economic growth nearly ground to a halt in the first quarter of 2011, a far worse performance than previously estimated.
Murdoch Snr – In reference to Rupert Murdoch's halting performance in front of the committee.
Olympia, an attempt to bring Manet's infamous 1863 painting to life, was also a direct challenge to Guy Cogeval, director of the Musee D'Orsay, after the gallery halted her 2014 performance, in which she held open her labia in front of Gustave Courbet's painting l'Origine du Monde.
Early on, Burden's work was performance, excruciatingly physical actions that came to a halt in 1974, when he spent forty-five hourstraightht lying under a sheet of plate glass.
Add to that Ed Miliband's halting performance in Liverpool this week and a speech peppered with the kind of politicians' phrasemongering that leaves voters cold.
In a halting performance, at times pausing, mumbling and mishearing, Murdoch said those culpable were "the people I hired and trusted, and perhaps then people who they hired and trusted".
