Live Appearances
Brendan Cole Live and Unjudged Dance Tour 2012
Izabela is partnering Strictly Come Dancing's "bad boy of Ballroom", Brendan Cole in Ballroom and his brother Scott Cole in Latin-American dances in the Live and Unjudged Dance Tour 2012.
In its fourth and final UK tour, Brendan Cole Live and Unjudged is set to return to theatres once again in 2012. Very different to the arena style Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour, this intimate show is bursting with all your Ballroom and Latin favourites.
The audience gets to see every style of ballroom and Latin dance performed to music and songs of some of the greatest legends and contemporary artistes ...Robert Palmer, Michael Jackson, Prince, Jennifer Lopez, Gloria Estefan, Natalie Cole, Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, Michael Buble, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder, Robbie Williams all delivered by an amazing band.
In its fourth and final UK tour, Brendan Cole Live and Unjudged is set to return to theatres once again in 2012. Very different to the arena style Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour, this intimate show is bursting with all your Ballroom and Latin favourites.
The audience gets to see every style of ballroom and Latin dance performed to music and songs of some of the greatest legends and contemporary artistes ...Robert Palmer, Michael Jackson, Prince, Jennifer Lopez, Gloria Estefan, Natalie Cole, Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, Michael Buble, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder, Robbie Williams all delivered by an amazing band.
Pictures from the Brendan Cole Live and Unjudged Dance Tour 2010 - 2011
Please click on thumbnails above to view larger images.
Video footage
Brendan Cole Live and Unjudged Dance Tour
Please click on the video to play.
Brendan Cole Live and Unjudged - Evening Standard Review
There is no doubt about it, there is more to Brendan Cole than television’s Strictly Saturday night orange face and wriggling bottom. There is something serious about the Bad Boy of Ballroom. In his six-man show he rarely leaves the stage. When not dancing he comperes, mic in hand, cracking bad jokes, swapping banter with elder brother Scott and trying his best, with that most elusive and dangerous of theatrical pastimes, ad libbing with the audience. What makes him more successful than he should be is attitude. Or rather, lack of it. This man is yet to believe his own publicity, he knows he has a lot to learn – how refreshing in the age of almost universal belief in: “I deserve it.”
He and his dancers sit well in the intimate setting he has chosen, band and singers centre stage with what appears to be a crippling lack of dance space down front.
Cole surprisingly risks keeping the traditional ballroom numbers for the second act instead of devaluing them as a hasty opener. Not only does this give the blue rinse brigade in the audience a warm glow of anticipation, it smacks of respect for the genre which nurtured his current success.
Yet the frantic cloak-twirling introduction, to ear-splitting Carmina Burana, proved how focused the staging was and how easy on the eye, with the dancers as free and flexible as in any Blackpool Tower Ballroom.
The line-up includes Cole and Izabela Hannah, Nicole Cutler, Andrew Cuerden, Hanna Haarala and Scott Cole and they thrash through tango and cha cha, Purple Rain and Addicted To Love, flowing in and out of every inch of space.
Before the interval we were dancing the salsa in the aisles and later the three men face an audience Q&A, which was not as smutty as you might think.
Jeffery Taylor
Evening Standard
He and his dancers sit well in the intimate setting he has chosen, band and singers centre stage with what appears to be a crippling lack of dance space down front.
Cole surprisingly risks keeping the traditional ballroom numbers for the second act instead of devaluing them as a hasty opener. Not only does this give the blue rinse brigade in the audience a warm glow of anticipation, it smacks of respect for the genre which nurtured his current success.
Yet the frantic cloak-twirling introduction, to ear-splitting Carmina Burana, proved how focused the staging was and how easy on the eye, with the dancers as free and flexible as in any Blackpool Tower Ballroom.
The line-up includes Cole and Izabela Hannah, Nicole Cutler, Andrew Cuerden, Hanna Haarala and Scott Cole and they thrash through tango and cha cha, Purple Rain and Addicted To Love, flowing in and out of every inch of space.
Before the interval we were dancing the salsa in the aisles and later the three men face an audience Q&A, which was not as smutty as you might think.
Jeffery Taylor
Evening Standard
