Graduate Spotlight: Dancer Taylor Sieve

Taylor Sieve, who graduated from Maple Grove Senior High School (MGSH) in 2016, has always let her passion and commitment drive her in her career as a professional dancer. 

Sieve attended Cedar Island and Oak View elementary schools as well as Maple Grove Junior High School before attending MGSH. In high school, she loved math and science and remembers really appreciating her teacher Mr. Lee’s chemistry class. She also remembers Principal Becker and how encouraging he was during their meetings and chats. 

“He was really supportive of my dance journey,” Sieve said. “He was kind of monumental in helping me pursue those dreams, even when I had to miss school for dance or events.”

Sieve was not only supported by her teachers and principal but by her classmates around her as well. She was always inspired to put her all into whatever she was doing and fully commit, whether it was academics, dance or friendships, by her classmates and friends.

“We had so many incredible people in our class, and it is so crazy that we are coming up on ten years since graduation. I was always motivated to try my best and hardest by the people around me. It was a really good group of people in my class,” Sieve said. 

Shortly after graduating from high school, Sieve moved out to Los Angeles, where she had a callback for a dance company but didn’t get it. She then started a job that took her around the country and to Canada and Mexico, traveling and teaching for a dance convention, which she is still a part of now. 

Some of Sieve’s dance accomplishments include earning third place on season 14 of “So You Think You Can Dance” and performing in Taylor Swift’s recent music video “Fate of Ophelia.” She feels her two greatest accomplishments include being a part of the Shaping Sound dance touring company in 2018, which she had dreamt of ever since she was a kid, and her work with Alanis Morissette on her Las Vegas residency this past fall and winter. 

Sieve’s favorite thing about her career is creating something from start to finish and collaborating with people to be a part of the creative process, whether it is for stage, an artist, a film or TV show.

“If I had a piece of advice for seniors graduating and pursuing their dreams, it would be that you never know until you try. If you have any kind of itch or inkling to try something, you just have to do it and trust that if you want something bad enough, it can happen for you,” Sieve said. 

In her free time, Sieve enjoys going to the movie theater and watching movies. She is also currently enjoying learning how to surf and play tennis.