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​Higher Praise Dance Academy in Detroit, Michigan, is a 501© 3, non-profit educational and praise dance training center.  Our mission is to provide training for youth and adults through various dance styles for personal and spiritual enrichment as well as self-development opportunities, community service and outreach experience. 

Higher Praise Dance Academy has been operating since January 1997, with annual recitals since 1998.  The dance academy is located inside an old Lutheran School inside Nazareth Lutheran Church. The classrooms have been renovated into dance studios.  


Since 1997, Higher Praise Dance Academy has shaped the foundation for many dance students, from beginners to professionals, encouraging spiritual enrichment. 

​Director

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Susan Alexander is the Executive/Artistic Director of Higher Praise Dance Academy located in Detroit on Vicksburg Street, where dance classes are being offered and Dance Ministry Workshops. ​She also is the Co-Chairman of the National Liturgical Dance Network.  Mrs. Alexander has a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Davenport University with extensive outside training in dance (Ballet & Modern) at Marygrove College. 
Ms. Alexander is the author of a book called “How to Develop a Powerful Dance Ministry” a Teacher’s Edition and Student Training Manual. She also wrote a Christian Etiquette Book for young girls. She is married, with 3 children, and continues to minister in dance and manage her school full-time.
    Mrs. Alexander has 11 years’ experience in training youth and adults in Liturgical Dance Ministry.   She has organized concerts since 1998, allowing her students to perform and awarding them with trophies and/or certificates of completion. Her classes have been highlighted on UPN Channel 50 News, and the Mind/Body & Soul Section of the Free Press.  She has received numerous Community Awards, Spirit of Detroit Award, Christian Arts Award, and Testimonial Resolutions from the County of Wayne and the City of Detroit.  She is currently Undergoing/Directing a new organization called NALAD (National Association of Liturgical Active Dancers), which is an affiliate of Higher Praise Dance Academy. ​
Ms. Alexander is the author of a book called “How to Develop a Powerful Dance Ministry” a Teacher’s Edition and Student Training Manual. She also wrote a Christian Etiquette Book for young girls. She is married, with 3 children, and continues to minister in dance and manage her school full-time.
    Mrs. Alexander has 11 years’ experience in training youth and adults in Liturgical Dance Ministry.   She has organized concerts since 1998, allowing her students to perform and awarding them with trophies and/or certificates of completion. Her classes have been highlighted on UPN Channel 50 News, and the Mind/Body & Soul Section of the Free Press.  She has received numerous Community Awards, Spirit of Detroit Award, Christian Arts Award, and Testimonial Resolutions from the County of Wayne and the City of Detroit.  She is currently Undergoing/Directing a new organization called NALAD (National Association of Liturgical Active Dancers), which is an affiliate of Higher Praise Dance Academy. 
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Co-Director

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Sandria Rush, is the Co- Director of Higher Praise Dance Academy who has her Bachelor Degree in Accounting from Bowling Green State University with a Minor in Dance.  She has been dancing since the age of 6 with her mother and choreographed her first dance at the age of 10.  She started teaching praise dance for outside churches independent of her mom at the age of 12.  She is currently a member of Abundant Life Christian Center, where she serves as a Finance Team Member.  God is using her mightily in choreography as she has worked on other performing arts productions, requested to assist other dance ministries,  as well as teach dance to youth at youth workshops throughout the metro Detroit area. ​

Higher Praise Dance Academy
4321 Vicksburg 
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(Between Grand River & Dexter) 
Detroit, MI 48204
Phone: (313) 313-262-6933 
Email:  susan.alexander70@yahoo.com

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