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The phrase "are about to perform" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that an action is imminent or will happen very soon.
Example: "The musicians are about to perform their new song at the concert."
Alternatives: "are ready to perform" or "are set to perform".
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These amateurs are about to perform their first opera: Leonard Bernstein's Candide.
Koichi Hamada, Abe's special economics adviser, concedes the government and central bank are about to perform a tricky balancing act.
What, for example, should a hospital do if an emergency liver failure case comes in as doctors are about to perform an elective domino procedure?
During a quasi-holy ritual, he and his fellow Marines are anointed with oil and told they are about to perform "deeds that will echo throughout eternity".
When the curtain goes up, the aliens, in their spacecraft, have him spread-eagled inside a blue neon tube and are about to perform some sort of appalling surgery on him.
Look out any window at the half-hour call, and you stare right into the windows of dozens of other actors, all readying themselves for one of the three shows they are about to perform.
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ARE financial markets useful indicators of how an economy is about to perform?
Instead, there's London, where Rahman is about to perform for two weeks.
No less miraculous than those few bruises was the symphony Haydn was about to perform.
Philippe Petit is about to perform the greatest show of his life.
Like Sylvia Plath's Edge, it is a rare example of the writer recording the act she is about to perform.
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