Taylor Academy of Dance

Taylor Academy of Dance is a dance studio in Wake Forest, North Carolina. It is a non-competition studio that has been teaching dance for over twenty years, offering more than a dozen classes across styles including ballet, modern, tap, and jazz, along with master classes and private lessons. The studio's stated mission is to develop technically beautiful dancers with the skills to become future artists. Its dancers have gone on to train at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, Mercyhurst University, Western Kentucky University, and Elevate Performance and Production Company, and the studio annually sends dancers to summer training with Joffrey Ballet School, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, and university intensives. It is also home to The Jill M. Taylor Dance Company, Wake Forest's performance company. The studio holds a rating of 4.70 from the customers who have reviewed it.

Instruction is led by Jill Taylor, who has been teaching for over twenty years. She holds a B.F.A. from Butler University, where she received High Honors in Dance Performance, and an M.F.A. in Dance from The Boston Conservatory. She danced professionally with Jose Mateo's Ballet Theatre of Boston and The Boston Dance Company, and appeared as a guest artist for Ballet South in New Jersey, performing the title role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker. The studio's work is adjudicated by North Carolina School of the Arts.

The studio is located in Wake Forest Business Park, about a tenth of a mile from Durham Road and Capital Boulevard. A post office and North Wake Academy are each roughly a third of a mile away.

Families in Wake Forest looking for a non-competition studio with a long teaching history and a record of placing dancers into summer intensives and college programs will find that combination at Taylor Academy of Dance.