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DATE: 10/27/04
DESK: METRO
SLUG: CAYNE

DATE: 10/27/04
DESK: METRO
SLUG: CAYNE

Performer Candis Cayne, center, rehearses for two hours in a rented room at Dick Shea Studios in Manhattan with two professional dancers who she hired for a club performance at a party for trans people and their admirers (some of whom Cayne calls "trannie chasers"); Cayne, J.D., right, and Mahi Kekumu, left, choreographed dance moves to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and a dance version of "Fever."

A trained dancer, Candis has done off-Broadway work and her own show; she says she did not feel confident about auditioning for female roles during her gender transition, a gradual process begun in 1995, but she is open to such roles now. "It's been a difficult transition as far as my career's concerned," she says. "I would really love to do Broadway but I really don't know how to break into it; it's always a Catch 22- you have to have years of Broadway to get those gorgeous lead parts...I always fit in. I could always pass. It was a matter of me having the confidence in that community."

photo by Angela JImenez for The New York Times
photographer contact 917-586-0916

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2004-11-Candis Cayne
DATE: 10/27/04<br /> DESK: METRO<br /> SLUG: CAYNE<br /> <br /> DATE: 10/27/04<br /> DESK: METRO<br /> SLUG: CAYNE<br /> <br /> Performer Candis Cayne, center, rehearses for two hours in a rented room at Dick Shea Studios in Manhattan with two professional dancers who she hired for a club performance at a party for trans people and their admirers (some of whom Cayne calls "trannie chasers"); Cayne, J.D., right, and Mahi Kekumu, left, choreographed dance moves to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and a dance version of "Fever." <br /> <br /> A trained dancer, Candis has done off-Broadway work and her own show; she says she did not feel confident about auditioning for female roles during her gender transition, a gradual process begun in 1995, but she is open to such roles now. "It's been a difficult transition as far as my career's concerned," she says. "I would really love to do Broadway but I really don't know how to break into it; it's always a Catch 22- you have to have years of Broadway to get those gorgeous lead parts...I always fit in. I could always pass. It was a matter of me having the confidence in that community." <br /> <br /> photo by Angela JImenez for The New York Times<br /> photographer contact 917-586-0916