James Floyd studied on scholarship with The Rock School for Dance Education under the direction of Bojan & Stephanie Wolf Spassoff. James attended summers programs on full scholarship with The Rock School, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Austin, The Joffrey Ballet Chicago, and The Bolshoi Ballet Academy summer programs in New York City and in Moscow, Russia. As a Studio Company member with The Joffrey Ballet Chicago for the 2014–2015 season, James performed in numerous company productions such as George Balanchine’s Prodigal Son, Christopher Wheeldon’s Swan Lake, and Robert Joffrey’s The Nutcracker. James also danced professionally with The Dayton Ballet company where he danced Septime Weber's Fluctuating Hemlines, The Nutcracker, and Gerald Arpino & Robert Joffrey's Ballet Confetti.