1.   Although performance pieces vary widely, the art form has a common theme.

2.   And in an especially well-known performance piece, she scrubbed the floor with her own hair dipped in black dye, creating a kind of cleaning-day Pollock.

3.   Anita is played by Suzanne Weber, who created the character five years ago as a performance piece touring clubs across the country.

4.   At the University of North Carolina, studying Western civilization was hard, studying a performance piece was easy.

5.   Backstage, while signing autographs, Argerich was not so much basking in glory as fretting over her next performance piece, a Brahms piano quartet.

6.   Brad Owen is a Democratic state senator best known for creating a singing, dancing, anti-drug performance piece for kids.

7.   A group of late performance pieces involving husks or a cocoonlike apparatus suggests metamorphoses a la her Czech compatriot Franz Kafka.

8.   A one-man performance piece featuring Kevin Augustine.

9.   A long, thin gallery was devoted to photographs of performance pieces by the Chinese artist Zhang Haan.

10.   A performance piece directed by Ibrahim Quaraishi.