Sarah Schaper is the founder and owner of In His Image Dance Studio in Tallahassee, Florida. A Tallahassee native, Sarah was homeschooled through high school and went on to earn her bachelor’s degree in Commercial Entrepreneurship from Florida State University.

With over 18 years of dance training in Ballet, Pointe, Tap, Jazz, Contemporary, and Modern, Sarah brings a deep well of experience and artistry to her work. She has been teaching dance for over a decade and has had the opportunity to work with several studios throughout the Tallahassee area. While she enjoys teaching all ages, her heart is especially drawn to working with young dancers—helping them grow not only in their technique but also in their confidence, character, and purpose.

Sarah is passionate about training dancers to reach their full potential while never compromising the joy and heart behind the art form. Her teaching style balances discipline and excellence with genuine encouragement. Ballet and Modern are her favorite styles to teach, and she finds deep fulfillment in watching dancers mature in both skill and spirit.

In 2025, Sarah launched IHI Company's first original story ballet, Narnia, bringing to life a long-held dream to create Christ-centered productions that inspire and uplift. She has a gift for creative vision and loves the process of dreaming, developing, and directing meaningful works that resonate with both dancers and audiences alike.

Above all, Sarah is deeply grateful to the Lord for providing her with the opportunity to serve the community through dance. She knew from a young age that God was calling her to pour into the next generation, and dance has always been the vessel through which she fulfills that calling. The heartbeat of her mission is to seek Christ and provide a rewarding, faith-filled outlet for young girls to grow, worship, and thrive.

Halle Jones has been teaching at IHI since 2023. She started dancing at the age of 3 years old and has had a passion for it ever since. She danced competitively for majority of her career and is trained in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, acro, and hip hop. Most of her career she trained at Jump Dance Company in Lakewood Ranch, FL. She is experienced with children ranging from ages 1 year old to 18 years old and with kids who have special needs. She absolutely loves dance and how God has shown such faithfulness and love through dance in her life.

Caroline started training at Contempo School of Dance in Tampa, Florida when she was two years old and danced competitively with them for 13 years. She has received many years of ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, hip hop, and contemporary training, and started competing her own choreography when she was 16. She has opened for the Radio City Rockettes and trained briefly with the Joffrey Ballet in both ballet and contemporary. She began teaching in high school and has now been with In His Image since 2022. 

Outside of dance, Caroline is involved at City Church and serves on their guest services team. She graduated from FSU in 2023 with her bachelor’s in Behavioral Neuroscience and will continue her PhD in Counseling and School Psychology there. Dance has always been a big part of her life and she is excited to use such a beautiful art form to glorify God and raise up laborers in the next generation. 

Bailey started her dance journey with Melbourne City Dance Center (now, We Dance Academies) in Melbourne, FL. Here, she was taught ballet by the highly acclaimed principal dancer, Artem Yachmennikov. Under Yachmennikov’s artistic direction, she became a company member of Melbourne City Ballet Theatre, performing, teaching and choreographing for school performances.

In 2018 and 2019, she danced alongside the National Ballet Theatre of Odessa performing soloist roles in The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake such as The Courage Fairy, Maids, and Neapolitan Princess, and corps de ballet roles such as Forest Nymphs, Mazurka and Swan Corps. While at Melbourne City Dance Center, Bailey attended the Bolshoi Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and MODAS Dance summer intensives, and competed in the Valentina Koslova Competition in NYC, and the American Dance Competition in Tampa, where she won a Scholarship from Ajkun Ballet Theater. 

During Bailey’s senior year of high school, she accepted a trainee position at Orlando Ballet where she performed choreography from Directors Robert Hill and Jorden Morris. At the end of the year she suffered a ligament tear in her foot and was forced to stop dancing. Bailey now attends Florida State University majoring in French and Communications. She can’t wait to be back in the studio meeting and passing on her love of dance to new students. 

From her first plié at the age of 4, Jenna was captivated by the beauty, discipline, and joy of ballet. For the next two decades, she trained exclusively in classical ballet under the direction of Ana Jacobs, founder of Dance Divine School of Ballet in Ocala, Florida.

As a pre-professional member of the studio’s Light of Joy Ballet Company, Jenna danced leading roles in original Bible-based ballets and taught dozens of students of all levels. Later, as the company's ballet mistress, Jenna choreographed original works, ran full company rehearsals, and assisted backstage during performances. Some of her students have since embarked on professional dance careers with companies such as the Nashville Ballet and Enoch Contemporary Ballet.

Jenna stepped away from dance for several years to study journalism at the University of Florida, launch her career, get married, and start a family. In 2019, she served a stint on the board of directors at The Tallahassee Ballet. Now in her second year of instructing at In His Image, she is thrilled to be living out her calling to teach ballet and share her love for Jesus.  

Eleanor Stewart grew up training at Mobile Ballet in Mobile, Alabama, under the instruction of Katia Garza, Israel Rodriguez, Sydney Adams, Zoe Todd, and Raley Zofko Zampieri, among others. She has studied classical ballet in the Russian and Cuban methods, with additional training in contemporary ballet and Broadway style jazz. Upon joining the Mobile Ballet company, she had the opportunity to perform many roles, including "Myrtha" in Giselle; "Clara", "Dew Drop", and "Arabian" in The Nutcracker; "Belle" in Beauty and the Beast; and "Wendy" in Peter Pan. In 2020, she had the opportunity to compete in the international ballet competition Youth America Grand Prix, where she placed in the top 24 out of more than 125 competitors. Ms. Stewart is an American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum certified teacher and has studied ballet pedagogy under Raymond Lukens and Franco de Vita. As the host of The Bookish Ballerina Podcast, she loves spreading the joy of ballet to others through discussion of ideas relevant to arts leadership, science, and their relationship. She has been a guest teacher and speaker at multiple public and private ballet and academic institutions throughout the southeast United States. She is also a corps de ballet dancer and a faculty member at The Tallahassee Ballet, where she has performed in multiple classical, neoclassical, and contemporary works, including Kathryn Karrh Cashin's Swan Lake, Cinderella, and The Nutcracker.

Joelle Bass is a creative and passionate dance teacher committed to cultivating high level technique in an uplifting atmosphere. She believes that everyone has a unique story to tell and that God has given us dance as a beautiful way to express it. Joelle was first introduced to dance when she was 5 years old at a praise dance class offered at her church in Colorado. At the age of 12 she felt the Lord calling her to pursue dance as a way to share the Gospel. Joelle began exploring different styles of dance at Monticello Acting and Dance Company under Idy Coddington and Melanie Mays. 2 years later she started taking classes at Pas De Vie Ballet under the tutelage of Charles Hagan and Natalia Botha. There Joelle was pushed to the next level of ballet technique by taking classes in multiple levels 5 days a week. Soon she joined Pas De Vie’s performance company and danced in their yearly performances of The Nutcracker and Spotlight on Dance, performing roles such as Lead Mirliton and Gypsy Girl. In 2020 she attended Ballet Magnificat’s Fall Dance Intensive where she learned excerpts from the production of Deliver Us. She was invited to dance at the Florida State Capital for the National Day of Prayer and leads corporate worship dance at a yearly summer camp in NC. Joelle has a strong interest in injury prevention and sport specific training that has led her to get certified in Personal Training and Progressing Ballet Technique. Joelle started teaching ballet, tap and lyrical classes at PDV while she was still a student there and continues to teach and take classes there to this day. She joined In His Image as an instructor in 2023 and has enjoyed being with the studio as it grows and offers a Christ-centered environment to dancers. 

Hannah Garcia has been dancing since the age of five. Beginning her education at The Wildwood Ballet, she switched over to The Tallahassee Ballet two years later and has been there ever since. In 2023, Hannah began taking classes at In His Image along with joining the In His Image dance company. Hannah's first love is ballet, but over the years she has obtained experience in many other dance styles that she also enjoys, including jazz, contemporary, and hip hop. Hannah loves being able to honor the Lord by dancing, and she's excited to continue her dance education at both The Tallahassee Ballet and In His Image Dance Studio. 

     Hannah has had experience at being an assistant teacher for years. After assisting at a couple other studios in town, she began assisting at In His Image, and in 2024 she had the opportunity to co-teach a class for the first time. Not only does Hannah love sharing her knowledge with younger dancers, but she's privileged to be able to share her love of Jesus in this way. Hannah is thrilled to continue teaching in the coming year!

Dancing from a very young age, Ballet quickly became one of Valerie’s passions. For almost 14 years, she trained at Arabesque Dance Works in Lausanne, Switzerland, her hometown. Under a British teacher, following the Royal Academy of Dance program and yearly examination, Valerie progressed to pre-professional level in Ballet, while also working on Jazz, Point, and some Tap. She danced 6 days per week, from after school until the evening, teaching younger girls and taking classes. She often spent summers in England taking part in intensive Ballet camps and competitions. Years later, Valerie discovered the beauty of a style of dance closer to contemporary and lyrical while attending l’Ecole de Danse Beatriz Borrajo in Lausanne. 

Since moving to Tallahassee in 2006, Valerie earned a Master's degree in Public History at FSU, got married, brought five awesome children into this world, and has most recently been homeschooling them. Thanks to In His Image Studio, Valerie was able to start dancing again with the Adult Ballet class, as well as classes at Pas de Vie Ballet with Beatrice Corbin. 

With two of her girls dancing at IHI already, Valerie is looking forward to getting a chance to share her love for dance AND for the Lord while being part of a wonderful community!

Sadie is graduating from high school  in May of 2026 from Abeka Academy. She is the seventh child of eleven in her family giving her ample experience with children. After her dad retired from the Army in Virginia, Sadie started ballet at the age of nine soon discovering her love for dance. She moved to Florida, and in 2021 she joined In His Image Dance Studio combining her love of dance and her love for God. Sadie started assisting with classes for IHI and started teaching in the 2024-2025 season. She is trained in ballet, lyrical, pointe, and contemporary and is currently participating in IHI’s company. Sadie’s love of dance grows each year as she learns and teaches. She is so excited to share her knowledge of dance and how the students can use it to praise God.

Emma is currently a Junior in high school and has been dancing for eight years. She moved to Tallahassee in 2020 and has danced with In His Image for three years. She started dancing at a small studio in Woodbridge, Virginia, and quickly developed a passion for dance. She has been trained in Ballet, Pointe, Contemporary, and Lyrical and is currently participating in the In His Image Company. She’s also assisted and has teaching experience in a variety of classes including Acro, Tap/Jazz, Ballet, and Lyrical and is very excited to co-teach a class of her own. Emma loves to dance and is looking forward to sharing that love with her students and using it to worship the LORD.

During the few opportunities she had to dance as a child, Harley absolutely fell in love with it. Being from a homeschooled family of eleven, with her parents working in youth ministry, she never had many chances to get official dance training when she was younger. So after years of saving up, Harley was finally able to help pay for her first real dance classes at 13.

She moved to Tallahassee in 2021, and, after trying some other studios, Harley joined In His Image in 2023 and assisted teaching whenever she could.
She has taken many different dance classes and is continuing to grow in her dancing at IHI, focusing mainly in ballet, contemporary, and pointe, but enjoys dabbling in lots of other styles such as acro, jazz, and any other dance she has the opportunity to try. Harley has been blessed to be a part of the studio's company and getting to dance the role of "Edmond" in IHI's original story ballet Narnia.

She is currently a junior in high school and has been working with kids for as long as she can remember, whether at church, nurseries, dance, or even babysitting. She is so thankful for all of the opportunities the Lord has given her for dance and is excited to be officially joining the IHI team this year!

Jillian began her dance journey at the Dance Theatre of Broward in Davie, Florida at the age of 4. She continued her training throughout high school at That’s Dancing in Lake Worth, Florida. Jillian went on to be a part of Level Dance Company, a student run performance team, at Florida State University throughout her undergraduate career and choreographed for the team each year. She has trained in the styles of lyrical, contemporary, jazz, hip hop, tap, and musical theater.  

In August of 2024, Jillian graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Music Therapy at FSU. She is so grateful for the opportunity the Lord has provided for her to be a part of In His Image Dance Studio and to teach the art of dance in a Christ-centered environment.