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Dancing through the decades by Andrew Miller
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Apple Valley’s Monique School of Dance celebrates 40 years
“My first ballet teacher was 90, I don’t plan on teaching until I’m 90, but I plan on teaching a few more years.”
Monique Kampa
– Owner, Monique School of Dance
Dancing since the age of 7 and trained as a ballerina in Europe, Monique Kampa is a believer in dance’s ability to build better people. “Dancing is good for you – physically, of course, but for poise and self-confidence as well,” said Kampa, a former ballerina with the Geneva Opera Company in Switzerland. That philosophy has served Kampa well as founder and director of Monique School of Dance in Apple Valley, which this year is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The studio has been a family affair from the beginning. Kampa’s daughter, Patti Swedberg, has been studio manager since it opened in 1972 in the Valley Ridge Shopping Center in Burnsville. Her other daughter, Cindy Kampa, serves as company director. Two years after it opened, the studio moved to Apple Valley, setting up shop at 147th Street and Pennock Avenue on the site of what is now Rascal’s Bar and Grill. It moved to its current location, just across the street from Rascal’s, in 1981, when what w a s then a roller skating rink was put up for sale.
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Monique Kampa opened Monique School of Dance in 1972, and over the years she’s seen many of her students enter the ranks of professional dance. Former students have performed with the Moulin Rouge in Paris, danced with the Radio City Rockettes in New York City, and appeared in Hollywood films including “The Blues Brothers.” “I came over and saw these beautiful wood floors and knew it was the place,” said Kampa, known to her students simply as Miss Monique. The studio, which cur-
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