Azizi Cole

Born and raised in Handsworth, Birmingham, Azizi has been a performing artist from as young as four years old.  Before music, he starting his dance training with Gail and Ian Parmel at ACE Youth he was nurtured through his formative years developing key skills and life lessons that have been fundamental in his professional career. As a musician he has toured with many singers and bands as well as accompanying, composing and recording music for contemporary dance. Some of his most recent collaborations have been with artists such as Linden Dance Company, Alesandra Seutin, HumanHood, Akeim Toussaint-Buck. In the past two years he has been developing a creative practice that encompasses both his dance and musical backgrounds with a heavy emphasis on musicality within movement. This practice is both performance and education driven having taught workshops to both students and professionals.