Tara was born in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, where she began her training at the Richmond Academy of Dance and received scholarships such as the Vancouver Ballet Society's Memorial Scholarship presented by Karen Kain and Peggy Baker and to train at the Joffrey Ballet School, the National Ballet School of Canada and the Banff Centre of Performing Arts.  After graduating with distinction from the RAD program, she started her professional dance career with The Alberta Ballet in 2006. She performed principal roles such as Juliet in Jean Grande-Maître’s Romeo and Juliet, Carabosse in Kirk Peterson’s Sleeping Beauty and Choleric in Goerge Balanchine’s Four Temperaments. After 8 years at Alberta Ballet, she worked with Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, touring all across the world, with works by Cayetano Soto and Wen Wei Wang, to name a few. She then moved on to work with Ballet BC in Vancouver, having the privilege to dance under the  directorship of Emily Molnar, performing her works as well as choreographers Medhi Walerski, Jorma Elo, William Forsythe, Johan Inger, Jacopo Godani, Fernando Hernando Magadan, Stijn Celis and Sharon Eyal. After a wonderful and fulfilling career, she retired from Ballet BC in June 2016, and co-founded ballet and contemporary school "H/W School of Ballet" here in Calgary, AB, in partnership with principal dancers, Yukichi Hattori and Galien Johnston Hattori.  While managing a school, she still makes her way to the stage having guest performed with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Fluid Festival, Luminous Voices and various other solo projects.  Through dance, Tara continually learns to accept changes, frustrations and love through movement, for it transforms into a step forward in recognizing what needs improvement and care - and in that process, one learns a great deal about ones self.