Taryn, a Utah native, is a freelance dancer, choreographer, cross-disciplinary design artist and co-founder/co-director of Austin's BLiPSWiTCH. Taryn's training began at the Cache Valley School of Ballet in Utah and she went on to study at the University of Alabama on scholarship— while there, she performed and choreographed for Dance Alabama and was a member of the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre. Before relocating to Austin in 2011, she danced and created work for Birmingham's Sanspointe Dance Company. She has had the opportunity to train in programs at the University of Wyoming, Ballet West, American Ballet Theatre, and abroad with Maria Campos and La Macana at La Caldera in Barcelona, Spain. In 2015, Taryn co-founded BLiPSWiTCH— a project-based dance company focused on collaboration and site-specific works as an avenue to community expansion— where she serves as co-director with Alex Miller, working in and out of the dance studio to conceive and produce original works. She is a current dancer with Allysen Hooks, Performa/Dance and TY&CO, and has worked with multimedia dance company ARCOS (2015-2022), Jennifer Sherburn (2016-2021), Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company, Collide Arts, L.O.L.A., SEAM Project, Ready/Set/Go! Dance, Blue Lapis Light, NunaMaana Immersive Dance Theatre and Sky Candy. In 2023 she was nominated for Best Choreographer/Dancer in The Austin Chronicle’s Best of Austin Awards Reader’s Poll. Taryn has a creative philosophy rooted in the belief that the way we gather and share in exposition is an extension of process, and she fuses her classical background with a desire to revitalize modern dance for broader audiences, extracting a new form of contemporary performance.