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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easy Street from Joffrey Ballet School Spring Concert 2016

Easy Street

Joffrey Ballet School Spring Dance Concert 2016
One of my FAVES!!!!

Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Enjoy!

A Dream Deferred & Afro Blue Matinee Performance

A Dream Deferred & Afro Blue

Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Joffrey Ballet School Jazz & Contemporary Department Spring Concert 2016
Matinee Performance

Cool Like Dat and Fever JBS Matinee

Cool Like Dat and Fever…. 

Trying to capture the New York spoken word and jazz scene I saw in the 90’s for the kiddies when I first came to NYC.

Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin,
Rogerst Charles on Alto Sax (Courtesy of Jazz Ain’t Dead®)

Joffrey Ballet School Jazz & Contemporary Spring Dance Concert 2016

Summertime Interlude Adagio Jazz Ain't Dead

Summertime Interlude
Adagio
Jazz Ain't Dead(R)
Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin

EPK

Candice Michelle Franklin

EPK
EPK includes Music Videos and Live Concert Footage of Jazz Ain't Dead®, plus samples of Street Jazz, Corporate Industrial,
Contemporary Concert Dance, Bollywood, Fashion, Master Class combos & Student Performance.

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Candice Michelle Franklin
Creator of JAZZ AIN'T DEAD® Live Music and Dance Production

Choreographer/Dancer/Producer/Creative Director of Live Stage Shows in Music, Dance and Theatre and Master Teacher in Jazz Dance Studies

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.  Coming up next year, her production, Jazz Ain't Dead® will be featured as one of the resident performance groups for the upcoming Nashville Jazz Festival slated for the Summer 2015.  Miss Franklin is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and is represented by DDO Artists New York City.

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®

 

Contact Information: Email Candice Michelle Franklin  Phone:  212-426-1305 Company Website:  www.JazzAintDead.com Non-Profit Organization:  www.iDANZToday.com LinkedIN:  http://www.Linkedin.com/in/candicefranklin Facebook:  www.Facebook.com/candicegetsdown Twitter:  www.Twitter.com/candicegetsdown Instagram:  www.instagram.com/candicegetsdown

 

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All Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin

Music Videos

Back-up Dancers/Street Jazz

 

Jazz Ain't Dead®

CEG Live -Entertainment Event Company

 

Bollywood

Modern/Jazz Concert Dance

 

 

 

Joffrey Students in Performance

Joffrey Students In-Class Combos

 

In-Rehearsal for Jazz Ain't Dead®

 

Fashion Show

Cool Like Dat Fever 7pm Show

Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Cool Like Dat into Fever Medley
Joffrey Ballet School Jazz and Contemporary Students 2016

 

Easy Street Tech Rehearsal Joffrey Ballet School Students

 

 

“Easy Street”
Joffrey Ballet School Students
Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Enjoy!

Master Class Schedule Summer 2016

 

Candice Michelle Franklin Summer 2016 TEACHING TOUR
Master Class Schedule for Candice Michelle Franklin Summer 2016.

 

Date	Venue	City
July 25 – August 12, 2016	Joffrey Ballet School Jazz & Contemporary Summer Dance Intensive 2016	New York, NY
August 15 – 19, 2016	Center for Performing Arts, Methuen, Summer Dance Intensive	Boston, MA
August 20 – 21, 2016	Dance Prodigy Booking Dance Workshop	Ferndale, WA
August 22 - 26, 2016	Pro Arte Dance Summer Dance Intensive & Commissioned Work	Vancouver, B.C. Canada
August 29, 2016	Jovan Miller Dance Productions	Seattle, WA
August 30, 2016	Pinx Dance Academy	St. Louis, MO
September 3, 2016	Together We Dance	St. Louis, MO

Schools

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 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 Calgary, Canada Calgary, Canada Fargo, ND Agoura, CA

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Bucket Dance Saturday Night 7pm Performance

Bucket Dance @Union Square
Joffrey Ballet School End of Year Recital 2016
Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Courtesy of Jazz Ain't Dead(R)

Music by Candice Michelle Franklin & Chris Rob
Lyrics by Candice Michelle Franklin
Bucket Drums by Osiris

Kenyetta Coffee, Vocals
Rogerst Charles, Sax

BBTT Sunday Performance 2016 For All We Know

For All We Know
Tiny Starr Productions "Best Be the Tide"
Mother's Day Show 2016
Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin

Dancers:  Shakirah Stewart, Jerome Melsaun Warren, Brandon Joshua Jones, & Victor Reddick

BBTD Sunday Performance 2016 Change is Gonna Come

A Change is Gonna Come
Tiny Starr Production of "Blest Be the Tide"
Mother's Day Production 2016

Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Beautifully Danced by Brandon Joshua Jones

Worst Day Ever..........

I'm so sad today...  Prince is my music idol.  Rest in Peace....  4/21/2016

This is my favorite Prince song ever.  Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin originally performed for the Prince Tribute show DMSR. directed by Reuben Edwards 

Coming Home to Christmas 2015 Videos

 

Mary, Did You Know Sunday Performance 2015

There is No Failure Friday Performance 2015

 

Patience Monologue & Funeral
Friday Performance 2015

The Eyes of All -Angel Scene

 

Mary, Did You Know with Coffee Table
Friday Performance 2015

 

Club Scene Friday Performance 2015

 

Hospital Scene Friday Performance 2015

Opening Scene Sunday Performance 2015

There is No Failure Sunday Performance Side View

 

Church Scene Sunday 2015

The Eyes of All Sunday Performance 2015

 

Hospital Scene Sunday Performance 2015

 

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Master Class and Audition Tour Winter 2016

 

Master Class and Joffrey Ballet School Adjudication schedule for Candice Michelle Franklin Winter 2016.

Date	Venue	City
Sunday, January 10, 2016	Center for Performing Arts, Metheun	Boston, MA
Sunday, January 17, 2016	Carolina Dance Center	Raleigh, NC
Thursday, January 21, 2016	IABD Denver	Denver, CO
Friday, January 22, 2016	Dance Prodigy Booking Closed Master Class	Ferndale, WA
Saturday, January 23, 2016	Dance Prodigy Booking @The Majestic	Bellingham, WA
Sunday, January 24, 2016	Kansas City Ballet School	Kansas City, KS
Saturday, January 30, 2016	Hubbard Street Dance Chicago	Chicago, IL
Saturday, January 30, 2016	Pro Arte Centre Master Class TBD	Vancouver, Canada
Sunday, January 31, 2016	Pro Arte Centre	Vancouver, Canada
Saturday, February 6, 2016	Arkansas Academy of Dance	Little Rock, AR
Saturday, February 13, 2016	Eisenhower Dance	Rochester, MI
Saturday, February 20, 2016	Elevation Dance Company	Billings, MT
Sunday, February 21, 2016	Kent State University	Kent, OH
Saturday, March 5, 2016	Classical Ballet Academy	Portland, OR
Saturday, March 12, 2016	Venue TBD	Baltimore, MD

Pro Arte Performs New Work by Candice Michelle Franklin

Teen dance company from Pro Arte Dance Center in Vancouver, Canada performs beautifully a new work by Candice Michelle Franklin.  Director is Astrid Sherman.  Check it out!

Nature Boy

Music by Kurt Elling

Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Courtesy of Jazz Ain't Dead

More Cowbell–Master Class with Candice Michelle Franklin

Give me an hour and one dance combination
and you get this…

”More Cowbell!”
Master Class with Candice Michelle Franklin
Advanced Intermediate Jazz at Pro Arte Dance,
Vancouver, Canada

Dancing in the Dark today

Hey, the tune is called Dark Horse,
so, of course, we’re dancing in the dark today!
”Dark Horse”
Music sung and re-interpreted by Alexa Ford

Class Combination Choreography by Candice Michelle Franklin
Advanced Intermediate Master Class at Pro Arte Dance Center, Vancouver, Canada

Master Class Schedule Summer 2015

 

Candice Michelle Franklin Summer 2015 TEACHING TOUR
Master Class Schedule for Candice Michelle Franklin Summer 2015.

 

Date	Venue	City
July 27 – August 14, 2015	Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensive 2015	New York, NY
August 17 – 21, 2015	Center for Performing Arts, Metheun, Summer Dance Intensive	Boston, MA
August 22 – 24, 2015	Dance Prodigy Booking Dance Workshop	Ferndale, WA
August 24 – 29, 2015	Pro Arte Dance Summer Dance Intensive & Commissioned Work	Vancouver, B.C. Canada
August 31 – September 5, 2015	Mauro Youth Ballet	San Juan, Puerto Rico
September 3 – 4, 2015	Andanza Contemporary Dance	San Juan, Puerto Rico

Last Class of the Spring Semester 2015

Today was my last class with my students at the Joffrey Ballet School ending Spring Semester 2015!  It was a fantastic year…  Miss you already guys! 
Muah, Muah, Muah!!!

Joffrey Ballet School Jazz Class with Candice Michelle Franklin
May 28, 2015

Amy Schumer Babies and Bustiers

Hey, Fam,

See if you can spot your gal in this funny clip!  I’m playing a pageant mom.   I was in three other scenes (One backstage with character daughter, one in the lobby rehearsing dance steps with daughter, and one sitting in a row with other pageant mom;s being judgmental to Amy’s character, but they were all cut from this clip…  Probably to long…….  Booooooo.  But a fun day anyway!!!!!

Enjoy!

Bio

Candice Michelle Franklin

Dance Artist/Choreographer/Producer

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®

Born and bred into Jazz music and dance, Candice Michelle Franklin is the creator and choreographer of the music and dance live stage production, "Jazz Ain't Dead®" and a national touring master instructor in Jazz dance studies to academy, collegiate, and conservatory-trained students across the country.  Originally from St. Louis, MO, she is now a New York based professional dancer, choreographer, and producer who has been seen in numerous film, TV shows, music videos, industrials, and, on the live stage performing in plays and dance companies.  While in St. Louis, she trained at her cousin's studio, Pelagie Green Wren Academy of Dance, Ray Parks Academy of Dance, Geri Stretz Academy, and Missouri Concert Ballet.  Later, she received her in B.A. in dance on a four-year dance scholarship. While in New York she received her formal training at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center as well as studied on scholarship at Steps on Broadway.  Since then, she performed in New York City with the Dunham-based dance company, Joan Peters Dance Company and modern-based company, Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance, and performed as principal dancer with Nommo Contemporary Dance Company, Phoenix Rising Dance Company, the Underground Dance Project, Vissi Dance Theater, and the Graham-based dance company, Avodah Dance Ensemble.                                         

Since 2001, she has owned 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 Kumble Theater, Syracuse Oncenter, Odeum Expo Center, Broad Street Ballroom, Capitale, 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 the Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, the Borgata, Turning Stone, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Tropicana, and Caesar’s.

Currently, Miss Franklin performs live with legendary Jazz Pianist, Onaje Allan Gumbs II's New Vintage, works as an Advance Jazz Instructor and adjudicator for the Joffrey Ballet School in the Jazz and Contemporary department and instructs on the Joffrey Ballet School's Master Teacher National Tour, serves as the Head Choreographer for CEG Productions, a high-end exclusive event production company choreographing singers and dancers, background singers, and actors for live stage shows, and produces and choreographs, Jazz Ain't Dead®, a live band and dance production group performing for Jazz festivals.  Miss Franklin is a founding member of iDANZ, Inc., a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, and is represented by DDO Artists New York City

Photo:  Members of the JAD team pictured with Candice (second from left).

Recent Choreography Credits:

·          WEBBY-nominated music video for the rock band Black Taxi called “Shoeshine,”

·          Music video for rapper, BRASCO called “So Fresh”

·          Holiday stage play, "Coming Home to Christmas," at Theater of the Riverside Church

·          Gospel stage play, Blest Be the Tide, performed at Aaron Davis Hall in New York City

·          MTV’s “Listen to the Beat” Live in Concert

Additional Chorography Credits:

·         The Live Concert Grammy Award winning recording artist, MACY GRAY

·         80′s Girl Group, BUFFALO STANCE

·         R&B Hip Hop recording artists including NATIAH

·         Internationally celebrated Bollywood Hip hop artist, SHAKTI  

Current Positions:

·         Performs with the legendary master Jazz pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs II's New Vintage

·         Advanced Jazz instructor and adjudicator for The Joffrey Ballet School in the Jazz and Contemporary department to their summer intensive and elite professional bound trainee programs, and instructs in Joffrey's Master Teacher National Tour.

·         Head Choreographer for CEG Productions, a high-end exclusive event production company, choreographing dancers and singers, background singers, and actors for live stage shows

·         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. 

Upcoming:

JAD (Jazz Ain’t Dead), Candice’s production company, will be featured as one of the resident performance groups for the upcoming NASHVILLE JAZZ FESTIVAL slated for the Summer 2015!


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

Contact Info: 
Candice Franklin, New York, NY  ♦ (212) 426-1305  ♦ Email: candicegetsdown@gmail.com  

♦ Website: www.JazzAintDead.com