SHEILA CASEY

Sheila is presently pursuing a BFA in Dance with a Business minor at the University of Minnesota and is a member of the Student Dance Coalition.  She is a graduate of Heartbeat Studios Academy Program, having earned majors in tap, jazz, modern and ballet as well as receiving the Academy Program’s Student Choreographer of the Year award.  At age 16, Sheila was cast by audition for a performing internship with Vox Medusa Dance Company, performing in the production, Transendance.  She has recently been a featured performer for Heartbeat Studios’ Tapestry of Dance concert at Leeds Castle and Sadlers Wells Theatre in London, England, and has also performed at Weisman Art Museum Red Bull: Art of the Can, Myth Night Club and in several New Years Eve productions.  Sheila has worked as a choreographer for Stillwater High School and Stillwater Community Theater, including productions of Pajama Game, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and for the South St. Paul Community Theater production, Best of Broadway II.  She has also worked for the South Family YMCA as Lead Youth Dance Instructor, and for the South St. Paul Gymnastics Program, creating and running a ballet training program for gymnasts.  Sheila is currently a co-administrator of Promised Land Productions, a company whose mission is to impact the community through dance.