A welcoming home where every child belongs!
Inspiring Students to Love Dance and the Arts for Life Time!
Kids are the Mission! Providing safe spaces for kids to Flourish. Building confidence, providing enrichment, encouraging creativity, and teaching life lessons through arts lessons with our professional staff. Inspiring students to love dance and the arts for a lifetime with age-appropriate music, movement, and attire.
We offer a diverse range of programs, from dance and acro to piano, cheerleading, theatre, and after school care. Led by certified instructors, our team brings expertise, compassion, and dedication to every class and activity.
At Inspirations Academy, we are committed to the highest standards in teaching, safety, and care. Families can trust that their children are not only learning and growing, but also building confidence, friendships, and lifelong memories.
Meet Our Rockstars
We are fun people, who work hard and put kids at the forefront of everything.
Owner – Miss Mary
Dance class has been the best part of Miss Mary’s week since she was in Kindergarten. She’s an Award Winning Choreographer, Certified Instructor with Acrobatic Arts and Tap Roots, and a Certified Coach with More Than Just Great Dancing. Miss Mary makes magic in tap and jazz classes, teaches the Leadership Academy, choreographs for the competition team, develops new programs and ensures success across all of Inspirations.
Miss Mary doesn’t have time for problems, only solutions. She has taught her students for decades, “You can only control yourself!” Nervous is an ok feeling. It just means you think it’s important to do a good job. And the most important thing is to “Smile and Have Fun!”
Operations – Miss Sydney
Miss Sydney is our Manager of Operations at Inspirations. She works completely remote from Wisconsin! An experienced dancer, teacher, program manager and choreographer, Sydney attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in Contemporary Dance and Choreography.
She will visit Inspirations occasionally as a guest instructor and choreographer, but works daily behind the scenes managing all the details that make your experience with us top notch.
Art – Miss Bee
Originally from New Zealand, where she was a Primary school (Elementary) Teacher for 17 years; the last 8 of those as an Art specialist, Miss Bee is pleased to be able to offer BEE CREATIVE @ INSPIRATIONS – Art classes for children aged 7 to 14. Bee had her own Art studio, BEE CREATIVE, in New Zealand teaching up to 40 kids a week the joy of creating art. Now living in Missouri, she is excited to inspire the young artists in Savannah and it’s surrounding areas to create masterpieces.
Acro – Miss Raychel
Miss Raychel started her love of tumbling as a gymnast in her younger years! She later became a cheerleader and started coaching tumbling and cheer at age 16. She has taught tumbling in many different settings including dance studios, cheerleading teams, and even dojos! Raychel loves teaching kids and watching their love for tumbling grow, and her excitement and energy in the classroom are contagious.
Dance & Theater – Miss Shira
Miss Shira grew up in Neosho, MO where she danced from the age of 3 through high school. She was a very active performer and dancer including show choir, color guard, and theatre. Her love for performing carried on through college where she was in numerous theatre productions and also participated in show choir. She graduated from Missouri Southern State University with a degree in Mass Communication. Shortly after college, she relocated to Saint Joseph and has called the area home ever since. Her favorite styles of dance are jazz and lyrical, but she teaches all ages and styles. Miss Shira and her family own Taco Bandido Restaurant in St. Joseph where it’s Taco Tuesday everyday!
Dance – Miss Amanda
Miss Amanda brings her understated excellence to the studio each week. You’ll rarely hear her raise her voice, but her students know she’s serious! Amanda grew up in Smithville, Missouri where she studied dance throughout her childhood and teen years. She choreographs for the competition team and teaches ballet, pointe, lyrical, jazz and tap. Amanda is a senior at Northwest Missouri State University, studying Early Childhood Education. She will be student teaching in 2025-2026 and hopes to become a Kindergarten Teacher. She has been active in the Northwest Dance Company and Campus Ministries.
Dance – Miss Nichole
Miss Nichole grew up dancing from age 5 through her senior year of high school. She was able to experience all techniques of dance from ballet, tap and jazz, to acro, modern, contemporary and lyrical. While she loved all techniques, tap is her favorite thanks to an amazing tap teacher and mentor! Miss Nichole participated in the competition team at her studio and was able to perform at many competitions, including the 1999 Orange Bowl halftime performance and on the Tomorrowland Stage at Disney World! Ms Nichole shares her love of dance with her daughter Grayson who has been dancing since she was 2 1/2 and is now on her 4th year on the Competition Team at IDA! “I’m so excited to work with the little ones who are experiencing dance for the first time! My love of dance grew because of the investment from teachers I had and I hope to be able to do the same for my dancers!”
