Taryn is from New Hampshire, where she received her ballet training at the Londonderry Dance Academy under Barbara Mullen. She attended intensives at the American Academy of Ballet, Yorkshire Seminar, & Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. She was also a recipient of the Pittsburgh Ballet Guild scholarship. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Point Park University's Conservatory of Performing Arts in Pittsburgh, PA, and a M. A. in Movement and Dance Therapy from Lesley University in Cambridge MA.

Taryn joined SundanceX in 2013, and has performed in David Sun’s Meditation, Solscape, Viatore, Bach to Bach, Bach to Bach II, In Blue Orchids, Elephant Walk, Images, Torsades des Pointes, Etudes, Tango de Caprice, Caprice, and Passagio Serenata, most recently at the 2019 Dance for the World Festival by José Mateo’s Ballet Theatre in June, and in Integrarte’s 2019 Winter Showcase II in March 2019. Excerpts of the work were performed in City Ballet Boston’s fundraisers in March and April 2019.

Taryn has performed various classical & contemporary works. She has performed works by Gianni DiMarco and Tony Williams, and performed in Tony Williams' Urban Nutcracker in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018. She joined his City Ballet of Boston in its inaugural season Sept. 2018, and performed with it through the spring of 2019.

She was a faculty member of Koltun Ballet Boston for two years, amongst other local studios. For the past 17 years she has taught yoga in the States, Kenya, Tanzania, & Germany. She now resides in Berlin, Germany, where she is performing and teaching.