Eve Summer began her pre-professional training at the Kirov (Universal) Ballet under Tamara Statkun, Vladmir Djoulhadze, Adrienne Dellas, and Yelena Vinogradova. At the Kirov she also studied Modern, Character, Jazz, African and Flamenco dance. She continued her ballet education in the intensive division of the Boston Ballet under Tatiana Legat, Elena Solovieva, Vladmir Kolesnikov, Nina Kolesnikova, Carolyn Eaton, Kristin Beckwith, Laura Young, Peter Pawlyshyn, Leslie Woodies, Sydney Leonard, and Rebecca Rice. In addition to her classical training at Boston Ballet, Ms. Summer studied choreography, Character dance, Limón technique, and Jazz dance. Ms. Summer performed extensively with the company as a young dancer in a number of ballets including Paquita, Le Corsair, Abdallah, Sleeping Beauty, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Nutcracker.

Ms. Summer went on to train with Maria Vegh, David Howard and Steffon Long (privately) when she joined the Worcester Youth Ballet as a principal dancer. There she danced the Sugar Plum Fairy and Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, as well as the Spanish and Arabian Soloists, the Firebird in The Firebird, and the principal role in Charles Maple’s original ballet Chalk Full of Nuts.

The following season Ms. Summer accepted an apprenticeship with the Inland Pacific Ballet Company in southern California where she went on to dance Corps de Ballet and Soloist roles and cover principal roles for three years in ballets including Giselle, Balanchine’s Serenade and Who Cares, Les Sylphides, La Vivandiere, Coppelia, Star Spangled Salute, Beginnings, Graduation Ball, Goodbye, Arturo Fernandez’ Dracula, and The Nutcracker.

Ms. Summer has studied teaching from Maria Vegh, Stanley Holden, David Sun, Charlotte Richards, Kevin Myers, Victoria Koenig and Steffon Long. She has acted as Ballet Mistress in Los Angeles, including setting La Vivandiere and assisting Patricia Neary of the New York City Ballet setting Balanchine’s Serenade. She has choreographed for and taught advanced ballet and pointe technique at many dance studios in California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. She has also been a member of Ballet for All, a street performance dance company based in Boston as well as a member of Worcester’s Company X performing classical repertoire as well as new work in the Worcester area.

Since she stopped dancing, Ms. Summer has continued to choreograph, now primarily for theater and opera, and recent choreography credits include Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream for Assumption College, Romeo & Juliet for The Hovey Players, The Tempest for Redfeather Theater Company, Don Giovanni for Boston Opera Collaborative, and Lucia di Lammermoor for Commonwealth Opera.