Welcome to Inspire Dance Company, a new faith-friendly, purpose-driven dance studio launching in Childersburg, Alabama!
Our vision at Inspire is to help students Be Brave, Be Bold, Be Inspired and “Move with Meaning and Dance with Purpose.”
Meet The Owner/Lead Instructor – Alexandra Ricks
Alexandra is the founder and owner of Inspire Dance Company. She has been dancing since she was 2 years old and has always loved dancing and performing on stage. Alexandra has trained in ballet, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, and pointe for more than 18 years. She has also trained in hip hop and tap. Alexandra was a Company dancer at Southern Dance & Performing Arts Company for six years, where she performed, trained, and danced for ministry. She was a dancer for The Warehouse Dance Company’s platinum competition team where she competed and performed. She has danced in multiple productions, including Samford University’s production of The Wizard of Oz, Missoula Theatre’s Red Riding Hood, Sylacauga Community Playhouse Lion King Jr., and Southern Dance & Performing Arts Company’s Disney’s Frozen Jr., Beauty and the Beast, and Christmas Angels Ballet. Alexandra finds so much joy in teaching and helping students learn and grow in the art of dance.
Meet Our Other Instructors
Lexie Wimmer
- Lexie is currently at Sophomore Dancer at Southern Union State Community College.
- She has 15 years of dance experience prior to that in styles including:
- Hip-Hop
- Jazz
- Ballet
- Lyrical
- Contemporary
- Musical Theatre
- Pointe
- Pom
- Lexie has choreographed 4 Summer Productions for Sylacauga Community Playhouse including:
- Disney’s Lion King Jr
- Disney’s Finding Nemo Jr
- Disney’s Little Mermaid Jr
- and Disney’s Frozen Jr.
- She is planning to further her education in Dance and continue teaching and choreographing.
Lily Platt
- Dance has been my passion for as long as I can remember!
- I have trained for 11 years in:
- Ballet
- Jazz
- Contemporary
- Lyrical
- Hip-hop
- Pointe and more.
- I love doing competition dance and incorporating movement into music.
- Creating choreography brings me so much joy and I am so excited for these upcoming classes!
- Dancing is my favorite way to stay fit and fun!
