Smith decided to start ballet at age 9, after seeing a performance, and was offered free tuition from the Robyn Hick School of Dancing.
His repertoire includes full-length classics, works by Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan and George Balanchine, and he created roles with choreographers such as Helgi Tómasson and Christopher Wheeldon.
[4][5] As a guest artist, he had performed in the US, Australia, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Germany.
[2] In 2014, Smith left the San Francisco Ballet after the company's appearance in Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.
He appeared as a guest artist with The Australian Ballet to dance Wheeldon's After the Rain pas de deux with Robyn Hendricks.