10 Things WWE Fans Need To Know About Taya Valkyrie

10. She Is A Classically Trained Ballerina

Everyone has to get their start in performing somewhere, and for Taya Valkyrie, that place was the art of ballet. Long before she actually became Taya Valkyrie, the real-life Kira Renée Forster had previously been trained in gymnastics, and had also been studying dance - which she continued all the way through to her university days - since she was only four years old.

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The performer we now know as Taya Valkyrie studied at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, the oldest ballet company in Canada. Although very little is known regarding Valkyrie's ballet career, she spoke in-depth about her childhood passion in an interview with Scott Felstead of The Mirror just under a year ago:

It's a performance art, just like dance is. It's interpretive and you are a character. There is poise and presentation and storytelling along with the physical, grueling aspect of both ballet and wrestling. Sometimes when I'm wrestling, the ballerina shows, from the way that I move my arms, or the way that I do my entrance and different things like that, but I wouldn't change it because that kind of sets me apart.

That Taya has been able to adapt the lessons learned through ballet into her wrestling career is a massive part of what sets her apart from her adversaries.