[Nicolai P. Zwar]

It’s perhaps just how we would use the two terms, and how I interpreted what you say, or perhaps we use or understand the terms differently.
So if someone told me “if I want to experience HAMLET, I’ll reach for the 1948 Laurence Olivier film over and over again, rather than watching any other interpretation regularly”, I would call that “performance-centric” rather than “work-centric”. And those were basically your words, I just now specified it with “Hamlet” and “Laurence Olivier”, but you can insert any other written score/play and performance/interpretation. Which is fine of course, nothing wrong with preferring or elevating or returning to one performance above all others. However, that is what I would call “performance-centric” rather than “work-centric”. Because there’s then basically one interpretation/performance of a work that’s at the center of the approach, rather than the work itself, whereas a “work-centric” approach to HAMLET would probably consider, ironically, many different performances of the work, and not rely on one single performance. That’s just how I would use the terms.