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Shaye Firer was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and immigrated to Vancouver, Canada when she was five years old. In 2004, she was accepted into the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Schoolʼs Professional Division and studied there under Arlene Minkhorst, Jacqueline Weber and David Moroni until 2010, when she completed her training. During the summers, Shaye attended various intensive programs such as The National Ballet of Canada, Alberta Ballet, Kaatsbaan International Dance Centre, Houston Balletʼs Ben Stevenson Academy, and Ellison Ballet. Shaye joined the inaugural class of American Repertory Ballet/ Princeton Ballet School's Trainee program and has since had the opportunity to perform with the company in: The Nutcracker in the roles of Marzipan, Flowers and Snow; in Our Town in the role of Girlfriend; and in Kirk Petersonʼs Glazunov Variations. She also performed the lead role of Swanhilda in Princeton Ballet Schoolʼs Coppélia. Shaye has received Second and Third Place awards in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Schoolʼs First Steps Choreographic Competition in 2009 and 2010, respectively and was chosen as one of five young choreographers in Houston Ballet Academyʼs collaboration with the American Festival for the Arts in the summer of 2010.