Hi there. I'm Roo Case. I'm a choreographer, lighting designer, and dancer based in Minnesota. I'm currently a junior at Carleton College in Northfield, MN, studying Computer Science and Dance. 

I've been interested in theatrical lighting design since I was in middle school when I was the board operator for a summer production of High School Musical and a spotlight operator for Suessical in my sophomore year of high school. Since then, I've done electrician-type work at the high school, college, and professional levels. I'm familiar and comfortable with bench focusing, hanging and focusing, and light board operation (primarily Element/Element 2, ION, and ETCNomad systems). I'm the president of Carleton College's Technical Theater Team and oversee the maintenance of multiple theaters on campus. 

I have been dancing since I was roughly three years old, following my dad around at Morris practice and dancing along to Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds in Singin' in The Rain. I spent thirteen years at Young Dance, a youth all-abilities dance company based in the Twin Cities, and served on the board for two additional years after graduating from the repertory company. I've been lucky to perform work choreographed by Minnesota and nationally known artists such as HIJACK, Ananya Dance Theater, SuperGroup, Megan Flood, Brian Evans, Leslie Parker, Phil Chan, and Sam Aros Mitchell. I am a member of The Braggarts, a Twin Cities-based Morris dance team, and have danced as a member for eleven years. 

As a choreographer, I got the dance-making bug in elementary school, slowly building out my choreographic toolset. My work often encompasses themes of Heimat, a German word loosely translating as "home", encompassing elements that make a place familiar. The word is often associated with ethnic German identity, the German homeland, and German nationalism, but I take a looser approach to defining this term in my work. Much of my work also touches on health, whether that be mental, community, religious, or physical.

You can find examples of my work under the "Portfolios" section of my website.