Friday, December 1, 2017

Master Class and Audition Tour Winter 2018



Candice Michelle Franklin 
Winter 2018 TEACHING TOUR


Date

Venue

City

January 7, 2018

Center for Performing Arts - Methuen

Methuen, MA

January 13, 2018

Elite Dance Studio

Portland, OR 

January 19 - 20, 2018

The Majestic

Bellingham, WA

February 2 – 3, 2018

Pro Arte Centre/Pro Merita Academy

North Vancouver, BC
Canada

February 4, 2018

School of Alberta Ballet

Calgary, Aberta Canada

February 7, 2018

Webster University

St. Louis, MO

February 11, 2018

Kansas City Ballet

Kansas City, MO

February 24, 2018

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School

Pittsburgh, PA

February 25, 2018

Pennsylvania School of the Performing Arts

Newtown, PA

March 3, 2018

Jody Phillips Dance Company

Overland Park, KS

March 4, 2018

School of Nashville Ballet

Nashville, TN




Monday, September 11, 2017

Ain’t No Sunshine – Video

When you have beautiful talent in front of you…  Why not just create a new solo just because???

”Ain’t No Sunshine”
Music by Bill Withers

Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Danced by Alisha Ahmadi

Pro Arte Dance Centre
Vancouver, B.C.  Canada


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Saturday, September 2, 2017

A Little Note of Surprise

Amberlie and Candice

To one of my favorite private solo dance students:
…A Wonderful little flower who's a talented FIGHTER, a PASSIONATE dancer,
with even a bigger HEART!
Thanks sooooo much for my gift! I finally had that yummy hot cocoa... Good luck, Amberlie!
MUAH!!!!

Amberlie's letter


Pictured here with dance assistant, Kylie  (left) ,and young solo dancer, Amberlie (right), at Infinity Dance Company in Lynden, WA.

Friday, September 1, 2017

My Favorite Things with Pro Arte

Ready for the Holidays in August!
One of my favorite dance schools to choreograph on Pro Arte in Vancouver, Canada
and their teen ballet company, CatchingArt!

”My Favorite Things”
Sung by Michelle Coltrane
Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin



Enjoy!

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Joffrey Ballet School Summer Dance Intensive 2017

Joffrey Ballet School Summer Dance Intensive 2017
is in the books!!!!   

Go TEAM SILVER!

Let's Go Crazy 
 2017 Opening Number

Music by Prince Rogers Nelson

Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Music Track Arrangement by Chris Rob
Jerome Jordan, Lead Guitar & Vocals
Derek Ferguson, Vocals

Dancers: Team Silver
Tevin, Raul, Giovanni, Paige, Payton, Bianca, Maya D., Mya B.,
Olivia, Caitlin, Rebeca, Shelby, Alyssa

You Guys Rock!  Thanks soooooo much.............




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Friday, August 18, 2017

Center for Performing Arts - Methuen

Center for Performing Arts – Methuen of Boston, Massachusetts

You Guys Rock!

You Betta WERK That Shrek Musical!!!!

Thanks Michelle Michitson for having me once again at your beautiful school.

I hope to come back and see What’s up in Dulac…..
Good luck guys….  I Love you………


Center for Performing Arts Methuen 2017



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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Mingus in My Cup Performance Video


“Mingus in My Cup”
Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin

Music by Charles Mingus
Finally, here’s the video of now one of my favorite pieces ever!!!
Performed by the company students of Pro Arte Dance Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

CatchingART Contemporary Ballet Theatre

Miss Astrid Sherman, Director


Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Candice Michelle Franklin –Choreographer, Dance Artist, Master Teacher in Jazz Dance Studies

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Candice Michelle FranklinCreator of JAZZ AIN'T DEAD® Live Music and Dance Production
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Dance Artist/Choreographer/Master Instructor in Jazz Dance Studies:
 

Traditional Jazz Technique, Contemporary Jazz Soul, Lyrical, Theater Jazz, Afro-Fusion Jazz,
Latin Jazz Styles, Commercial Jazz, Street Jazz for Young Dancers, Studies in Jazz Rhythms for Dancers,
Concert Jazz & Repertory from Jazz Ain't Dead®


Biography


Originally from St. Louis, MO, born and bred into Jazz dance and influenced greatly by the Jazz music scene, Candice Michelle Franklin is a New York based professional dancer, choreographer, and producer who has been seen in numerous film, TV shows, music videos, industrials, and, of course, on the live stage performing in plays and dance companies.  She has a B.A. in Fine Arts majoring in Dance on four-year scholarship, studied on scholarship at Steps on Broadway, trained in St. Louis at Missouri Concert Ballet, and, upon invitation to New York, received her conservatory training at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.  She owns Dance Industrial Professionals, Inc./The Pro DANZ Group in which she oversees the dance and creative direction of several performance groups, recording artists, industrials, and stage shows.  Her work has been performed in a host of New York venues including Jacob Javitz Convention Center, The Syracuse OnCenter, Capitale, Odeum Expo Center, Broad Street Ballroom, The Kumble Theater, Symphony Space, Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAM Cafe, Webster Hall, The SPACE at Westbury/Westbury Theater, Stage 48, the Oheka Castle, The Theater of Riverside Church, The Sage Theater, American Theater of Actors, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and Joyce SoHo, as well as numerous casinos on the east coast such as Turning Stone, the Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Trump Taj Mahal, Tropicana, Borgata, and Caesar’s. 


Most recently, her choreography work has been seen in the WEBBY-nominated music video for the rock band Black Taxi called “Shoeshine,” in the holiday stage play, "Coming Home to Christmas," and in the gospel stage play, Blest Be the Tide, performed at Aaron Davis Hall in New York City.  In addition, she is Head Choreographer for CEG Productions LLC, is choreographer for the 80′s Girl Group, Buffalo Stance, and serves as choreographer for a number of recording artists including Natiah, internationally celebrated Bollywood Hip hop artist, SHAKTI, the rapper BRASCO, and Grammy award winning recording artist, Macy Gray. 

Currently, she performs with the legendary master jazz pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs II's New Vintage, works as an Advanced Jazz instructor and adjudicator for The Joffrey Ballet School in the Jazz and Contemporary department for their summer intensive and elite professional bound trainee programs, instructs in Joffrey's Master Teacher National tour, and works as the producer and choreographer for Jazz Ain’t Dead®, a live band and dance production group performing at Jazz Festivals and Jazz concert series' such as Jazzmobile, the Harlem Shrines, and the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival.  Miss Franklin is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and a founding member of the not-for-profit 501(c)3 dance advocacy foundation, iDANZ®, Inc.






Candice Michelle Franklin
Master Teacher in Jazz and Jazz Dance Studies

Master Class List
Dance Conservatories/Colleges/Academies
Joffrey Ballet School                                                             
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago                                              Vancouver School of Arts and Academics                               
Pro Arte Centre/Pro Merita Academy      
Mauro Youth Ballet                             

Andanza Contemporary Dance
Pacific Northwest Ballet                                                         

IABD/Dallas Black Dance Theatre                                           Boston Ballet                                                                    University of Hartford/The Hart SchoolColorado Ballet                          
East Coast Ballet                                                             
Detroit Music Hall Center for Performing Arts                        
University of Utah/Marriott Center for Dance                         
IABD/Joy for Motion Dance Center                                        
Bravo Dance Center                                                               
Maria Verdeja School of the Arts                                            
Freddy Jet Art House and Dance Conservatory                     
The Ballet School of Stamford                                                 
Walnut Hill School for the Arts                                              NOCCA -New Orleans Center for Creative Arts                       Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts     Young Dance Academy                                                            
Joffrey Ballet School/Miami -New World School of the Arts     
University of Kansas Department of Dance                             
Uptown Dance Academy                                                           Ballet Hispanico                                                                         Pittsburgh Ballet TheatreWycoff School of Dance                                                           
Cycely Tyson High School of the Performing Arts                   
Next Step Dance Studio                                                            Expressions Dance Studio                                                        
Ballet Nova                                                                     Albemarle Ballet Theatre                                                           Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center                                           Angela Floyd Schools                                                                N'Ferno Performing Arts Center                                   Kansas City Ballet  Center for Performing Arts Methuen                                        
Carolina Dance Center                                              IABD/Cleveland Dance Movement                                          
Infinity Dance Company                                                           
Westside Dance Academy
Together We Dance
PINX Dance Academy
Jovan Miller Dance Productions

IABD/Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Kent State University
The Majestic/Dance Prodigy Booking
Suzanne’s Main Street Dance Centre
Classical Ballet Academy
Arkansas Academy of Dance
Eisenhower Dance
School of Alberta Ballet
Edge School for Athletes
Hovi Strauss – Dance Etc.!
California Dance Theater
State/LocationNew York, NY
Chicago, IL
Vancouver, WA
Vancouver, Canada
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Seattle, WA

Dallas, TX
Boston, MA
Hartford, CTDenver, CO
Jacksonville, FL
Detroit, MI
Salt Lake City, UT
Washington, D.C.
Warminster, PACoral Gables, FL
Oxford, AL
Stamford, CT
Natick, MA
New Orleans, LA
Dallas, TX
Milwaukee, WI
Miami, Florida
Lawrence, KS
New York, NY
New York, NY
Pittsburgh, PA
Wycoff, NJ
East Orange, NJ
Milwaukee, WI
West Union, IA
Falls Church, VA
Crozet, VA
Bronx, NY
Knoxville, TN
Randallstown, MD
Kansas City, MO
Methuen, MA
Raleigh, NC
Cleveland, OH
Lyndon, WA
Waukee, IA
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis, MO
Seattle, WA
Denver, CO
Kent, OH
Bellingham, WA
Detroit, MI
Portland, OR
Little Rock, AK
Rochester, MI
Calgary, Canada
Calgary, Canada
Fargo, ND
Agoura, CA
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Click here for choreography recommendation letters:

Randy Thomas, Universal Music Group (Jazz & Contemporary Music Label Executive)
Beverly Fish, CEG Productions, LLC (Live Music and Dance Event Corporation)

Adam Hootnick, Resonance Interactive (Music Video Film Director/Film Production Company)

Lafayette Harris, Jr., Pianist (Major Jazz Recording Artist and Music Director of Bring in Da’ Noise/Funk)

SHAKTI, Internationally Celebrated Bollywood Hip Hop Recording Artist

Michael Blake, Director of Jazz and Contemporary at Joffrey Ballet School (Testimonial of Choreography/Instruction)

PS 87, Testimonial of Student Lecture Demonstration

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Master Class and Audition Schedule Winter 2017 for Candice Michelle Franklin

 

Master Class and Audition Schedule Winter 2017
for Candice Michelle Franklin

Date Studio Location
1/8/2017 Edge School for Athletics Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1/14/2017 Elite Dance Studio Portland, Oregon
1/15/2017 Pro Arte Centre/Pro Merita North Vancouver, B.C. Canada
1/21/2017 Dance Prodigy Booking Bellingham, Washington
1/22/2017 California Dance Theater Agoura Hill, CA
1/25/2017- 1/27/2017 IABD 29th International Annual Conference 
Hosted by Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
1/28/2017 Hovi Strauss – Dance, Etc.! Grand Forks, ND
2/12/2017 Kansas City Ballet Kansas City, MO
2/25/2017 School of Alberta Ballet Calgary, Alberta, Canada

 

 

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Virtual C.V.


Candice Michelle Franklin


Candice Franklin Low Resolution

Director/Owner of Pro DANZ® Group, Inc.
Master Teacher in Jazz for Joffrey Ballet School
Joffrey Ballet School Jazz & Contemporary Audition Instructor/Scholarship Adjudicator
Head Choreographer for CEG Live Productions
Artistic Producer/Choreographer for Jazz Ain’t Dead®
www.JazzAintDead.com
www.CandiceFranklin.com


Contact:
212-426-1305
candicegetsdown@hotmail.com
www.facebook.com/candicegetsdown

 
 
 
Biography

Originally from St. Louis, MO, born and bred into Jazz dance and influenced greatly by the Jazz music scene, Candice Michelle Franklin is a New York based professional dancer, choreographer, and producer who has been seen in numerous film, TV shows, music videos, industrials, and, of course, on the live stage performing in plays and dance companies.  She
has a B.A. in Fine Arts majoring in Dance on four-year scholarship, studied on scholarship at Steps on Broadway, trained in St. Louis at Missouri Concert Ballet, and, upon invitation to New York, received her conservatory training at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.  She owns Dance Industrial Professionals, Inc./The Pro DANZ Group in which she oversees the dance and creative direction of several performance groups, recording artists, industrials, and stage shows.
 
Her choreography has been performed in a host of New York venues including Jacob Javitz Convention Center, The Syracuse OnCenter, Capitale, Odeum Expo Center,  Highline Ballroom, Broad Street Ballroom, The Kumble Theater, Symphony Space, Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAM Cafe, Webster Hall, The SPACE at Westbury/Westbury Theater, Stage 48, the Oheka Castle, The Theater of Riverside Church, Marcus Garvey Park Amphitheater, The Sage Theater, American Theater of Actors, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and Joyce SoHo, as well as numerous casinos on the east coast such as Turning Stone, the Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Trump Taj Mahal, Tropicana, Borgata, and Caesar’s.  In addition, she serves as choreographer for a number of recording artists including internationally celebrated Bollywood Hip hop artist, SHAKTI, and Grammy award winning recording artist, Macy Gray.  Most recently, her choreography work has been commissioned by Pro Arte Dance for continued performances at the Kay Meek Center in Vancouver, Canada, and Tiny Starr Productions at the National Black Theater and Symphony Space. 

Currently, she is Head Choreographer for CEG Productions LLC, she performs with the legendary master jazz pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs II's New Vintage,
and works as the producer and choreographer for Jazz Ain’t Dead®, a live band and dance production group
Miss Franklin is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.
 

 

Candice Michelle Franklin
Master Teacher in Jazz and Jazz Dance Studies

Master Class List

Dance Conservatories/Colleges/Academies
Joffrey Ballet School                                                             
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago                                             
Vancouver School of Arts and Academics                               
Pro Arte Centre/Pro Merita Academy      
Mauro Youth Ballet                             
Andanza Contemporary Dance
Pacific Northwest Ballet                                                         
IABD/Dallas Black Dance Theatre                                          
Boston Ballet                                                                   
University of Hartford/The Hart School
Colorado Ballet                          
East Coast Ballet                                                             
Detroit Music Hall Center for Performing Arts                        
University of Utah/Marriott Center for Dance                         
IABD/Joy for Motion Dance Center                                        
Bravo Dance Center                                                               
Maria Verdeja School of the Arts                                            
Freddy Jet Art House and Dance Conservatory                     
The Ballet School of Stamford                                                 
Walnut Hill School for the Arts                                             
NOCCA -New Orleans Center for Creative Arts                      
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts    
Young Dance Academy                                                            
Joffrey Ballet School/Miami -New World School of the Arts     
University of Kansas Department of Dance                             
Uptown Dance Academy                                                          
Ballet Hispanico                                                                        
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Wycoff School of Dance                                                           
Cycely Tyson High School of the Performing Arts                   
Next Step Dance Studio                                                           
Expressions Dance Studio                                                        
Ballet Nova                                                                    
Albemarle Ballet Theatre                                                          
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center                                          
Angela Floyd Schools                                                               
N'Ferno Performing Arts Center                                  
Kansas City Ballet 
Center for Performing Arts Methuen                                        
Carolina Dance Center                                             
IABD/Cleveland Dance Movement                                          
Infinity Dance Company                                                           
Westside Dance Academy
Together We Dance
PINX Dance Academy
Jovan Miller Dance Productions

IABD/Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Kent State University
The Majestic/Dance Prodigy Booking
Suzanne’s Main Street Dance Centre
Classical Ballet Academy
Arkansas Academy of Dance
Eisenhower Dance
The Majestic
School of Alberta Ballet
Edge School for Athletes
Hovi Strauss – Dance Etc.!
California Dance Theater
                                                      

State/Location
New York, NY
Chicago, IL
Vancouver, WA
Vancouver, Canada
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Seattle, WA
Dallas, TX
Boston, MA
Hartford, CT
Denver, CO
Jacksonville, FL
Detroit, MI
Salt Lake City, UT
Washington, D.C.
Warminster, PA
Coral Gables, FL
Oxford, AL

Stamford, CT
Natick, MA
New Orleans, LA
Dallas, TX
Milwaukee, WI
Miami, Florida
Lawrence, KS
New York, NY
New York, NY
Pittsburgh, PA
Wycoff, NJ
East Orange, NJ
Milwaukee, WI
West Union, IA
Falls Church, VA
Crozet, VA
Bronx, NY
Knoxville, TN
Randallstown, MD
Kansas City, MO
Methuen, MA
Raleigh, NC
Cleveland, OH
Lyndon, WA
Waukee, IA
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis, MO
Seattle, WA
Denver, CO
Kent, OH
Bellingham, WA
Detroit, MI
Portland, OR
Little Rock, AK
Rochester, MI
Bellingham, WA
Calgary, Canada
Calgary, Canada
Fargo, ND
Agoura, CA

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Video Samples
All Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin


1. Style - Traditional Concert Jazz
Mingus in My Cup

Pro Arte Dance Centre Student Ballet Company CatchingArt

 

2.  Style – Neo-Afro Contemporary Concert Jazz
Afro Blue

Joffrey Jazz & Contemporary Students with Jazz Ain’t Dead® at Harlem Arts Festival

 

3.  Style - Jazz
Golden
Joffrey Jazz & Contemporary Summer Intensive Students Class Combos

 

4.  Style – Latin Inspired/Traditional Concert Jazz
Overjoyed
Joffrey Trainee performs duet live with Jazz Ain’t Dead®




5. Style – Contemporary Jazz/Lyrical
Ain’t No Sunshine
Solo Choreography – Classroom Exercise
Choreography Courtesy of Jazz Ain’t Dead®

 

6. Style – “Candice” Jazz
People in the City
The Bucket Dance of Union Square

Students of the Joffrey Ballet School Jazz & Contemporary Summer Dance Intensive
Opening Number 2016
Guest Performers Courtesy of Jazz Ain’t Dead®




7. Style – “Candice” Jazz
Let’s Go Crazy
Joffrey Ballet School Jazz & Contemporary Summer Dance Intensive
Opening Number 2017
Guest Performers Courtesy of Jazz Ain’t Dead®




8. Style – Contemporary

Billie Jean
Jazz Ain’t Dead® performs contemporary duet at Joyce SoHo




9. Style – Theater Jazz Inspired by Bob Fosse
Fever
Jazz Ain’t Dead® performs classic Jazz trio -Produced by Jazzmobile

 

10.  Style – Theatrical Commercial Pop Jazz
Alice in Wonderland Tea Party Revue
CEG Live Special Event Company New Year’s Eve Performance



11.  Style – Concert Jazz

Jazz Ain’t Dead® Montage
Montage of Jazz Ain’t Dead Show:  The JAD Lounge

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Click Here for C.V.

Click here for choreography recommendation letters:
Randy Thomas, Universal Music Group (Jazz & Contemporary Music Label Executive)
Beverly Fish, CEG Productions, LLC (Live Music and Dance Event Corporation)
Adam Hootnick, Resonance Interactive (Music Video Film Director/Film Production Company)
Lafayette Harris, Jr., Pianist (Major Jazz Recording Artist and Music Director of Bring in Da’ Noise/Funk)
SHAKTI, Internationally Celebrated Bollywood Hip Hop Recording Artist
Michael Blake, Director of Jazz and Contemporary at Joffrey Ballet School (Testimonial of Choreography/Instruction)

PS 87, Testimonial of Student Lecture Demonstration



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