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What I was trying to say was that "giving a performance" (in the sense of performing on stage) is not deliberate practice. Performing a piece of your skill (in the sense of actually doing it) may be--if you are monitoring your how well you do and trying to figure out how to do it better.

To use the example of a magic trick that one of the commenters uses above:

Performing a magic show is not deliberate practice. Neither is doing the trick for a friend.
Deliberate practice would be standing in front of a mirror and doing one piece of the trick, while watching to see if the palmed card is visible. So would doing the whole trick to practice moving smoothly from one step to the next. (You can say that's "performing the trick," but it isn't giving a performance of it.)

I hope that makes it clearer.

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