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Dec 5, 2023 · Credit: Madame Vacani teaching debutantes to curtsey in 1929. Shrouded in new etiquette – including the introduction of dance cards or ‘programmes’ so debutantes (and their parents) could keep track of their partners at balls – the Season had become a serious business. Society having turned against overtly arranged marriages, sending ...
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Sep 16, 2009 · In the latter years of the ball, while working as principal at the Vacani School of Dance, Ms Fallowfield for a time took on the task of teaching debutantes to curtsey and to waltz. "They'd troop in in their jeans and Doc Martens, but we went along looking like mini-mothers. But they loved it." Party time
Marguerite, who was born in London, began teaching dance in 1912 and founded the Vacani School of Dance in 1920. The school aimed to teach ballroom dances and social etiquette of the day to young ladies and gentlemen, while debutante ladies learned to curtsey for their presentation parties.
Mar 16, 2008 · We learned the technique from Madame Vacani, a dancing teacher who held a kind of royal warrant for the curtsey. A Vacani curtsey was part of the mystique. However hard we practised, the ...
Oct 5, 2006 · March 1958 saw the final batch of debs being presented to The Queen at Buckingham Palace. Looking like Princess Margaret, dressed in day dresses, with sticky out skirts and little petal hats, rather than the feathers and long dresses favoured before the war, almost 1,500 made their curtsies, coached in the art by Madame Vacani.
Jul 13, 2016 · The last season when debutantes were formally presented at court, 1958 was also a year of social unrest and political activism, and the exhibition is careful to cover both. World War II, the slow decline of the British Empire—not to mention Cliff Richard, dansettes and Teddy boys—had made dinosaurs of the debs in the Brave New World of postwar Britain.
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Royal dance instructor Madame Vacani teaches four debutantes how to curtsey to the Queen at Cygnet House Finishing School, Staines, 1952. The debs are Linda Clark, Diana Farrant, Linnet Leach and...
