Taylor began her dance training at age three in her hometown of LaGrange, Georgia at the LaGrange School of Ballet under the direction of Nancy Thuesen Gell and Amy Orr. She studied classical ballet, pointe, modern, contemporary, jazz, and tap, and completed an assistant and student teacher training program, and began instructing dance to young students.
She then went on to major in dance at Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi, where she graduated cum laude in 2015 with her BFA in dance with an emphasis in classical ballet. While at Belhaven, Taylor studied classical and contemporary ballet, modern, choreography, dance production, dance kinesiology, and dance pedagogy. She also had the opportunity to work with many skilled instructors and guest artists including Ravenna Tucker Wagnon and Henry Danton (The Royal Ballet), and Caleb Mitchell (Houston Ballet) and several others who still influence her dancing and teaching today. Throughout the years, she expanded her training at various summer intensives including Ballet Magnificat!, Nashville Ballet, The Rock School for Dance Education, and The American Ballet Theatre.
After graduating, Taylor moved back to Georgia to teach at the Statesboro Youth Ballet, the dance program under the umbrella of the Averitt Center for the Arts in Statesboro, Georgia. In 2017, she was promoted to Artistic Director of the program where she served until 2021. While at SYB, Taylor taught classes in Creative Movement, Classical and Contemporary Ballet, Pointe, Variations, Modern, Tap, Jazz, and Conditioning to students ages three to adult. In 2018, while continuing to direct and teach at SYB, Taylor moved to nearby Savannah, Georgia where she began teaching at The Habersham School, a private classical Christian school in historic downtown Savannah. There, she taught classical ballet as part of the P.E. requirements to students in grades Pre-K4 through eleventh grade. Between Statesboro Youth Ballet and The Habersham School, Taylor choreographed and directed several full length ballets including The Nutcracker (2017, 2019), Cinderella (2018), Snow White (2020), Alice in Wonderland (2018), and The Wizard of Oz (2021), and created four modern dance showcases, An Evening of Modern Dance, annually from 2018-2021.