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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
