{"id":7209,"date":"2020-11-23T19:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:27","slug":"jazz-khai-bynum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/23\/jazz-khai-bynum\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Khai Bynum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-clpid=\"SHC2pgv-X7dKVknF4j\">\n<h2><strong>Jazz Khai Bynum<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Ballet West II (2019-2021)<\/strong><br \/>\nBallet West: Corps Artist (2021-present)<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7210 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10-800x1000.png 800w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10-830x1038.png 830w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10-230x288.png 230w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10-350x438.png 350w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10-480x600.png 480w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10-600x750.png 600w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-10.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Jazz Khai Bynum is from Germantown, Maryland.\u00a0 She joined the Ballet West Academy as a trainee in 2018 and joined Ballet West II in 2019.\u00a0 She was promoted to the main company in 2021.\u00a0 Jazz trained with Maryland Youth Ballet from 2004-2014 and with Dance Theater of Harlem\u2019s Residency Program at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC from 2004-2011. \u00a0She 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\u2019s\u00a0<em>Snow White,\u00a0<\/em>Sklute\u2019s\u00a0<em>Giselle,\u00a0<\/em>Christensen\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Nutcracker,\u00a0<\/em>and Stevenson\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dracula<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OM24Wp9HV1A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div data-clpid=\"SHC2pgv-X7dKVknF4j\">\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.balletwest.org\/dancers\/detail\/jazz-khai-bynum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jazz Khai Bynum, Ballet West<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/balletwest.org\/news\/promotions-retirements-announced-for-2122-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roster for 21\/22 Season Announced, Ballet West<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/artsliving\/2021\/02\/21\/utah-black-ballerinas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Utah ballerinas help shape new policies to welcome dancers of color into the \u2018white ballet world\u2019, Salt Lake Tribune<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuer.org\/arts-culture-religion\/2020-11-03\/balletwest-revamps-policies-to-make-it-more-equitable-for-black-and-brown-dancers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BalletWest Revamps Policies To Make It More Equitable For Black And Brown Dancers, KUER<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OM24Wp9HV1A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jazz Bynum &#8211; Dance Student Profile (Boston Conservatory at Berklee)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yz-6dBQs_FQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Classical Variation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WQaGnbKp1zY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contemporary Classical (Variations)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/_theresilientballerina_\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@_theresilientballerina_<\/a><br \/>\nLinkedIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jazz-bynum-b0672b103\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jazz Bynum<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz Khai Bynum Ballet West II (2019-2021) Ballet West: Corps Artist (2021-present) Jazz Khai Bynum is from Germantown, Maryland.\u00a0 She joined the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19486,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions\/19486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}