Jazz Khai Bynum
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.
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