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Dec 5, 2023 · Schools like Madame Vacani’s – which “held a kind of royal warrant for the curtsey” according to one former pupil – taught scores of debs to dance, and handle their train. And some well-born, but no longer well-off women earned sizeable sums from presenting girls whose mothers were unqualified as a sponsor.
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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.
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. However hard we practised, the ...
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...
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Royal dance instructor Madame Vacani teaches three debutantes the correct way to curtsey, 2nd July 1936. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
