Cheerleading hen party dance class Leicester [ sideline energy · leicester house ]
Straight arms, hard stops, counts shouted loud enough to be heard through a wall — and not one person lifted, thrown or balanced on anybody else. Whole group, one number: £185 for ninety minutes, with the venue cost of the room we hire quoted next to it in writing — or £160 plus venue if an hour is the most the day can spare.
Arms locked,
everybody louder
Thirteen people hitting the same shape on the same count — the point at which a cheer booking stops being shy.
Take the slot while the weekend is still shapeless
Send an approximate date and an approximate number. Someone rings you back the same day with what is genuinely free, and sends a written figure with the room charge already counted in. Among hen party ideas this converts sceptics fastest, on the simple grounds that shouting in time with twelve friends turns out to be enormously satisfying.
A hen do dance class is easy to commit to early. Nothing about the theme is final at booking — a dance hen party can be changed later on — so an afternoon in the diary is not the same as a colour scheme. Nobody has to be able to dance, or for that matter to be fit, which is more than many hen party activities manage.
And the headcount can keep moving. The fee is not a per-person sum, so late additions cost nothing and late cancellations save nothing except a bit of space in the line.
Shapes first, volume second, polish last
Nothing is pre-made. The teacher arrives with the music and no routine, uses the warm-up to work out what this particular group will and will not do, and then builds the material on the spot. A line of nine who have never done anything like it and a line of nine containing two people who did this at university need genuinely different classes, and only one of those can be written in advance.
The building blocks are the arm positions — the high V, the low V, daggers, the clean punch — and they are the reason this theme works for mixed groups. They are learnable in minutes, they are unforgiving of sloppiness in a way that makes tidying up satisfying, and a whole row hitting one at the same moment looks like months of practice in a photograph. Footwork stays simple and stays on the floor.
Ninety minutes leaves room for a chant, for the group splitting into two blocks that face off if the room is up for it, and for running the ending properly instead of once in a panic. The hour covers a warm-up, a short routine and an ending that survives being filmed. Everything is built live around your group, so a quiet room and a rowdy room end up with different sessions under the same heading.
Cheer only reads as cheer when it is sharp — arms that stop dead, a count shouted on the same syllable, a whole block hitting the high V at the same instant. Sharpness is really just repetition wearing a ponytail, and the longer booking hands the group enough of it that the final formation looks drilled rather than hopeful.
A chant or a track you want is worth flagging; it usually finds a place.
Five tracks in the running; the room picks.
Mickeythe obvious one, and obvious for good reason — counts you can shout
the chantHollaback Girlstomp-heavy, marching-band energy, absurdly easy to get loud with
stadium bidWe Will Rock Youtwo stamps and a clap; the fastest way to make a nervous room commit
warm-up pickFireworkslower build, bigger arms, the one that suits a wide mixed-age line
outside shoutDynamitequick, bright, and built for a last shape held until the phones are done
the finishA shortlist rather than a schedule. Which of these actually runs is decided on the day by the teacher, in the room, around the people standing in it — nothing here is promised ahead of the booking.
[ got a chant in mind? ]Tell the desk and the teacher builds a chant around it.
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What the rest of the afternoon usually looks like
Central room, central plan. Most groups eat somewhere near the Market, take the class mid-afternoon while everybody still has legs, and come out with an hour spare before the evening starts properly. Hens travelling in from Melton Mowbray, Hinckley and Market Harborough manage it without a single lift being organised.
Kit is the group’s own business and we supply none of it — no pom-poms, no skirts, no hair ribbons. What actually helps is trainers and something you can lift your arms in. Groups who want matching colours sort that themselves, usually cheaply, and groups who turn up in whatever they wore to lunch get exactly the same routine taught to them.
Afterwards New Walk is close enough for photographs somewhere with daylight in them, and the walk back into town takes minutes rather than planning. The class is the part of the day with a time attached; the rest can stay improvised.
Confirmation carries the room with it, in writing, well ahead of anybody actually needing to find the door.
Two stubs from the sideline
"Nobody was thrown anywhere, which had been the main worry going in. It's arms, counts and a lot of shouting, and by the end thirteen of us were hitting the same shape at the same time. The bride still does the last move."
"I'm fifty-eight and fully expected to be the one sitting down. The teacher pitched it so that nobody was, and the sharp arm positions turn out to be the fun part. One clear price, a room we could walk to, no fuss."
Six questions before you commit
If the answer you need is not here, ring 07535 351968. Someone who teaches these picks up.
Are there pyramids, stunts or lifts involved? +
No. Feet stay on the floor throughout — no pyramids, no lifts, no basket tosses. It is a dance routine built from cheer shapes and counts, not a gymnastics session.
How is a cheerleading booking priced here? +
One flat fee: £185 across ninety minutes, or £160 across a shorter sixty, with the venue cost of the hired room added beside it and the total confirmed in writing.
Are pom-poms part of the booking? +
No, nothing is supplied. Plenty of groups bring their own or go without entirely — the routine is taught to work with empty hands either way.
Where in Leicester would we be cheering? +
In a central Leicester room we hire for your slot. It is named in writing once the date is confirmed, and it sits an easy walk from the Market and New Walk.
None of us are sporty in the slightest — fine? +
Completely fine. No dance experience is needed, the counts are simple by design, and the whole thing is composed on the day to match what the room can do.
Should we expect a genuinely noisy session? +
Loud. Cheer routines carry a chant, and a room of hens shouting in time is most of the appeal. The hired rooms are chosen so that is somebody else's problem.