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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.
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Sep 16, 2009 · For the first time since 1997 young women will dress in virginal white, curtsey to a minor royal and partake of a giant cake at Queen Charlotte's Ball. It's the return of the debutantes - but...
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.
Miss Stass had first met Miss Vacani when she took her daughter for classes, and then in turn, took lessons at the school herself as an adult. Miss Vacani could see at once what a great teacher Mary Stassinopoulos would become, and soon gave her a job teaching in one of her schools.
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.
Sep 5, 2016 · We were taken to Madame Vacani [the royal dance instructor] to learn to curtsey. And we felt terribly grown up in our dresses. Mine was very lacy, with hundreds and hundreds of mother-of-pearl sequins."
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May 16, 2024 · On 17 July 1958, Sandra Seagram, the last debutante presented to the royal family at Buckingham Palace, curtseyed to the Queen Mother and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Queen Elizabeth II was unwell and unable to attend the historic ceremony.
