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Jazz Khai Bynum

Sponsored by Shari H. and David Quinney

Ballet West Academy Summer Intensive: 2017
Ballet West Academy Trainee: 2018
Joined Ballet West II: 2019
Joined Ballet West: 2021

Jazz Khai Bynum is from Germantown, Maryland.  She joined the Ballet West Academy as a trainee in 2018 and joined Ballet West II in 2019.  She was promoted to the main company in 2021.  Jazz trained with Maryland Youth Ballet from 2004-2014 and with Dance Theater of Harlem’s Residency Program at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC from 2004-2011.  She graduated from The Boston Conservatory in 2018 with a B.F.A in Contemporary Performance with an emphasis in Ballet, Cum Laude. Jazz also earned her Wedding and Event planning License in 2021. With Ballet West, Jazz has performed roles in Robinson-Harris and Dolkas’s Snow White, Sklute’s Giselle, Christensen’s The Nutcracker, and Stevenson’s Dracula, among others.

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Click below to see Jazz’s roles.

2025-26 Season

  • Romeo & Juliet (Smuin) Juliet's Friend, Capulet Harlot
  • The Dream (Ashton) Peasblossom
  • Les Noces (Nijinska) Bride's Friends
  • The Nutrcracker (Christensen) Mirliton Soloist

2024-25 Season

  • Jekyll & Hyde (Caniparoli)
  • Serenade (Balanchine) Russian Demis
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)
  • Cinderella (Ashton)
  • The Rite of Spring (Fonte)
  • Andromeda (Addison), Elis (Lima), Mass Hysterical (Adams) Works from Within (Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City

CHOREOGRAPHY

  • With Feeling - Works from Within (Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City)

2023-24 Season

  • Dracula (Stevenson)
  • The Firebird (Christensen)
  • Fever Dream (Whitehead)
  • Stars & Stripes (Balanchine)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)
  • Swan Lake (Sklute, after Petipa and Ivanov)
  • Blake Works I (Forsythe)
  • The Green Table (Jooss)
  • Play on Impulse (Quan), Somewhere in Time (Fang) Choreographic Festival VI: Asian Voices (Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City)

ON TOUR

  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) - Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.

2022-23 Season

  • Onegin (Cranko)
  • Rodeo (DeMille)

2021-22 Season

  • Dracula (Stevenson)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)
  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin)
  • Glass Pieces (Robbins)

ON TOUR

  • Paquita (Kunikova, after Petipa) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin) – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah

2019-20 Season

  • Snow White (Robinson-Harris and Dolkas) The Vain Queen
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)
  • Giselle (Sklute, after Coralli and Perrot) Wilis, Peasant Woman

ON TOUR

  • Giselle (Sklute, after Coralli and Perrot) Wilis, Peasant Woman – The Soraya, Los Angeles, California