Originally from Houston, Texas, Jackson Bayhi is a corps de ballet dancer with Texas Ballet Theater. He started competitive ballroom dancing at age 8 and began his ballet training at age 16 at Uptown Dance Centre in Houston. In 2019, after attending summer intensives at Houston Ballet and Ellison Ballet in New York City, Bayhi studied at Texas Ballet Theater’s Studio Training Company for one year before getting hired into TBT’s professional company in 2022. Jackson enjoys performing soloist roles like Trepak and Lead Flower in Ben Stevenson’s The Nutcracker along with other Stevenson works such as Cinderella, Dracula, and Val Caniparoli’s Without Borders.