Virtual C.V.

Candice Michelle Franklin



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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Virtual C.V.

Candice Michelle Franklin



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

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

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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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JAD Videos

Jazz Ain’t Dead® Videos

Concert footage, music videos, promotional videos, and behind the scene footage of the
dancers and musicians of Jazz Ain’t Dead®.

Highlights from New York Joyce SoHo Spring 2011 Season

Summertime House from Jazz Ain’t Dead Celebrates the Legacy of George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin

My Funny Valentine Music Arrangement by Chris Rob for Jazz Ain’t Dead®

Portuguese Love Tribute to Teena Marie Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

I Know You Know by Esperanza Spalding Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

Highlights from Jazz Ain’t Dead Celebrates the Legacy of George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess Choreography by Candice Midhelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

It Ain’t Necessarily So Music Arrangement by Chris Rob, Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

I Got Plenty of Nuttin’ Featuring Maurice Chestnut Improvised Jam with the cats of Jazz Ain’t Dead®

My Man’s Gone Now Music Arrangement by Chris Rob, Live Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

Red-Headed Woman Original Composition by George Gershwin, Music Arrangement by Donald Hayes for Jazz Ain’t Dead, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr., Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Vocal Performance by Billy Davis

Bess, You is My Woman Now Music Direction and Arrangement by Lafayette Harris, Jr., Vocal Performance by Billy Davis & Daphne Shawn

Whatever Lola Wants JAD Style Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr., Music Arrangement by Marcus Bell/Bellringer Production/ Global Soul Productions

Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean -JAD Style Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr. Performed by Chelsea Arce & Jerome Melsaun Warren, Vocals by Billy Davis

Fall In, Music by Esperanza Spalding Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr.

Summertime Interlude Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin, Music Direction by Lafayette Harris, Jr. Performed by Chelsea Arce & Jerome Melsaun Warren, Trumpet by Travis Antoine

Summertime House JAD Style Joyce SoHo, March 27, 2011 Music jam led by Axel Tosca and the Jazz Ain’t Dead Band, Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin

Summertime House JAD Style at DNA, New York City APAP Here is raw footage of Jazz Ain’t Dead "caught on tape" at Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) by our wardrobe mistress, Ms. Cynthia Bowen, performing the final number of our music set, "Jazz Ain’t Dead- Celebrating the Legacy of Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess."

All musical arrangements are by Jazz Ain’t Dead, choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin.

 

 

 

 

Together We Dance December 2016

Had a Blast Teaching in St. Louis again!  These girls worked so hard in their 3-Hour Master Class Workshop.
Thanks so much, Chaz, and Together We Dance! 
See you again in the New Year…….

Bankole and Candice Together Again at The Players Club

 

At the first play reading at the beautiful The Players Club in Gramercy Park in New York City.  In these photos, I’m setting up the backstory for the dance scene in "Painted Virgin!" Shout out to my beautiful dancers, Starr Dee portraying Madonna and Johnny Chatman II portraying Jean Michel Basquiat through the art of movement!!!!  Thank you, Director Bon Bankole, for having me join you on a project again!

Afro Blue at Harlem Arts Festival

I love this piece!!!
I love my Joffrey Ballet School Students!!!
I love Rajdulari Barnes!!!!
I love Jazz Ain’t Dead®!!!!

Enjoy…

Overjoyed with Maria and Gierre at the Harlem Arts Festival Summer 2016

Proud Mama moment…. 

OVERJOYED

My piece I’ve performed many a time over the past few years, and now performing this past summer at the Harlem Arts Festival is my GORGEOUS former student from the Joffrey Ballet School Jazz and Contemporary, Maria Rodriguez, who is now Killing IT with one of my favorite partners and veteran dancer’s of all time of Jazz Ain’t Dead, Gierre Godley.

I love you guys so much.   And, I’m going to miss Rajdulari Barnes singing for me as she goes on to her new adventure in Denver, Colorado.

Samba version of Stevie Wonder’s Overjoyed performed by Jazz Ain’t Dead featuring Maria Rodriguez and Gierre Godley and vocals by Rajdulari Barnes and Billy Davis, Jr.

Enjoy!

Afro Blue and Dream Deferred Cast A Tech Rehearsal 2 Joffrey Ballet School

I LOVE my students at Joffrey Ballet School Jazz and Contemporary Department!
Interlude A Dream Deferred

Afro Blue
Music by Rajdulari Barnes
All Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Courtesy of Jazz Ain't Dead (R)

 

Fun Day on a Television Series

Had a BLAST teaching on set today. Look who played a 1980's Aerobics Instructor for a TV series today! ha, ha, ha ........AND 5, 6, 7 and punch it out......... LOL

 

Harlem Arts Festival Recap Video

 

Yay!!!!  We made it into the Harlem Arts Festival Recap Video!

JAZZ AIN’T DEAD

Enjoy!

Pro Arte Summer Dance Commission 2016

 

Love my Pro Arte Dance Company Students!

Here’s a little Charles Mingus.  Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Enjoy!

Summer fun with Joffrey Jazz & Contemporary

 

Hey, Guys,

I was honored to open the show again this Summer for the Joffrey Jazz & Contemporary New York Summer Dance Intensive 2016!

I got some help this year from my Jazz Ain’t Dead family.  Big shout out to them…….  Music by Chris Rob and Candice Michelle Franklin.  Vocals by Kenyetta Coffee.  Alto Sax by Rogerst Charles.  Bucket Drums by Osiris.  Everyone was awesome!!!!  Thank you sooooo much……

Jazz Ain't Dead at Harlem Arts Festival

Hey Everybody,

If you missed it, here's the show we did at Harlem Arts Festival, Saturday, June 25 for Jazz Ain't Dead!  Special thanks to the students of Joffrey Ballet School and all my special guest dancers and musicians.

Enjoy!