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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. During the First and Second World Wars, she taught blind veterans to dance and organised children's parties to boost morale.
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.
- Felicity Day
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...
Founded in 1915 by Marguerite Vacani (aunt of Betty Vacani) the Vacani School of Dance originally taught the sort of dancing and social etiquette that was a necessary accomplishment for young ladies and gentlemen of quality. Pupils were taught the ballroom dances of the day and debutante ladies learned the curtsy needed when presented at court.
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.
Oct 5, 2006 · 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.
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I've just asked my wife and she confirms that a Madame Vacani not only taught dancing to members of the royal family, but also taught debutantes how to curtsey.
