Mallory is from Louisville, Colorado where she studied the Russian method of ballet for eight years under the direction of Elizabeth Ross. When she was fourteen, Mallory studied in New York with Iliya Gaft, director of the New York Ballet Institute. At fifteen, she began studying other forms of dance including modern, jazz, and lyrical. In 2009, she graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Performing Arts with a concentration in Dance. In 2012, she received the first ever certification awarded for the pedagogy of the first year syllabus of the Russian method through the Dance Teachers Institute, headed by Carol Roderick at Colorado State University. In the summers of 2015 and 2016, she studied in New York City with instructors from the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia such as Ekaterina Shchelkanova, Ludmila Safronova, Irina Kolpakova, Elena Sherstneva, Vladilen Semenov, and many others.

While attending Colorado State University, Mallory had the privilege of working with instructors and choreographers such as Carol Roderick, Chung-Fu Chang, Kim Neal Nofsinger, David Taylor, Hannah Kahn, Hubbard Street 2, Katie Elliot, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company, Gabe Masson, and Jacques Heim of the acclaimed Diavolo Dance Theater. It was her experience with these artists that inspired her choreographic style, and it was her work with Carol Roderick that inspired her to study and teach the Russian method in her own classroom. Mallory worked as an adjunct professor at the University as a ballet instructor in the fall of 2015.

In addition to her well-rounded education, Mallory also has a rich performance history. She performed in Boulder Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty. She has performed other variations from Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Paquita, and Les Sylphides. She was a member of the CSU Tour Dance Company traveling and performing throughout Colorado during 2007-2008. In March 2009, she performed at the American College Dance Festival at Middle Tennessee State University. Mallory has also performed in the university productions of various Student Dance Concerts, Spring and Fall Dance Concerts, Senior Dance Concerts, and Faculty Shows. From 2007 to 2014, she traveled throughout the United States, to Italy, and to Paris, France performing with the Silver Screen Saloon Show as the cancan troupe leader, Sophie Darling!