Eva Draw is a former associate professor at the School of Dance at UNCSA and recipient of the 2020-2021 Excellence in Teaching Award. A graduate of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (Bolshoi Ballet Academy), she danced with the Stanislavsky Ballet Theatre and studied ballet pedagogy at the Russian University of Theatre Arts (GITIS) under Marina Semyonova. She later joined Canada's National Ballet School as a faculty member, earning teaching distinctions in the Cecchetti Method and becoming a registered teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance. In 2009, she was invited to join the Royal Danish Ballet and Royal Danish Ballet School as Ballet Mistress and teacher, where she coached principal dancers and staged major productions, including La Bayadère in collaboration with Nikolaj Hübbe.