Strictly hen party dance class Leicester [ studio floor · leicester broadcast ]
Ballroom or Latin, your choice, arranged for a whole party working as one line so that nobody is paired off with anybody. A private room, one flat figure and nothing per person, with the hired room's venue cost written in beside it: £185 for the recommended ninety minutes, £160 plus venue for sixty.
Eleven frames,
one line
The final shape, held while the phones do their work. Every broadcast ends on it and no plan ever says so.
Get the transmission slot in the diary
A rough date and a rough number of people starts it off. Expect a call inside the day: the free dates first, then a written total that carries the room charge with it. This theme wants floor space more than most, so the earlier the date lands the better the room, and a hen party dance class is in any case the easiest thing on the weekend to hold now and detail later.
Holding the date settles nothing else. A hen do dance class stays flexible underneath its slot, and the theme on a dance hen party is swapped weeks later all the time without a charge or an argument. No previous training is assumed of anybody, which quietly removes the objection that sinks most hen party ideas at the voting stage, and among the hen party activities on the shortlist this is the one that flatters a room where half the party watches the show religiously and the other half has never seen an episode.
One line, no partners, no pairing off
The first thing to clear up is the partner question, because it is the thing every party worries about and it never applies. Nobody is paired with anybody. The material is arranged for the whole room facing the same way and moving together, which is easier to learn, kinder to an odd number, and considerably better on camera than fourteen people shuffling round in couples trying to remember who is leading.
After that it is a choice of direction. Ballroom travels: long lines, held shapes, a quickstep or a Viennese waltz pattern that looks genuinely enormous when a room does it in unison. Latin stays closer and works the hips instead, with the cha-cha and the jive carrying most of the session. Parties on ninety minutes often take one of each and let the teacher work out the join. Neither is harder; they just want different things from the room.
Nothing arrives pre-set. The teacher builds their own material around the party standing there, once she has read who is nervous, who has already appointed herself the lead and who did ballroom classes for two years and has kept quiet about it. Ninety brings in the second dance if the party wants it, a set-piece ending and the space to repeat it without rushing. The hour gives you a warm-up, a single dance taught properly, and a closing frame worth filming. Cameras are not our business; whatever gets filmed is entirely down to the party.
Ballroom and Latin both live on frame and posture — shoulders down, chin lifted, the held line at the end of a phrase — and posture is what slips first when a group is hurrying. The longer booking gives the room time to hold those shapes until they feel natural, so the closing frame looks like a Saturday-night finale rather than a queue for the bar.
No scores, no paddles and no judging panel unless the party invents one, which parties frequently do.
Five dances audition; your floor picks which two get danced
Cha-chaquick, cheeky and immediately recognisable — the safest Latin opener there is
likely leadJivethe one that empties the tank; brilliant fun and quietly the hardest work
strong contenderQuicksteptravelling, bright and stately — looks far beyond a beginner room and is not
near-certainPaso dobleall attitude and sharp corners; the party with something to prove asks for it
if the nerve holdsViennese waltzclosing-shot material — one long turning line and a curtain
the creditsNone of the five is a promise. Which two get danced is worked out on the day, in front of the people who came through the door.
[ a dance the bride has demanded? ]Put it in the notes and it goes on the list.
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Where the broadcast sits in a Leicester day
Central by design, which saves an hour of everybody's day. Eat around Granby Street first; the class lands mid-afternoon while legs are still willing, and afterwards there is a walk down New Walk or over to the Market for the part of the evening nobody has planned. Parties come in from Oadby, Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough by train and bus with no need for a driving rota.
Every sequin is the party's own. Nothing is handed over at the door — no dresses, no shoes, no feathers, no accessories — and the groups who go hardest at the sparkle are unmistakably the ones who look best in the footage. Leggings and trainers change nothing about the class, and for the Latin half trainers are frankly the wiser call anyway.
The room is picked for your headcount and the floor it needs, then written down with the address at confirmation.
Two stubs from the studio floor
"We assumed we would be shuffling round in pairs and instead the whole eleven of us worked as one line, which removed the entire problem of who partners whom. The cha-cha section was harder than it looked and far funnier than it should have been."
"Every other quote we chased wanted a per-person figure and a locked headcount. This one came back written down, room cost included, and did not change when two people pulled out. The jive nearly finished me and I would do it again tomorrow."
Six questions, straight answers
The seventh is always whether somebody can hold up scores at the end — ring 07535 351968 and ask a human. Bring your own paddles and nobody will stop you.
What does the Saturday broadcast cost the party? +
Everyone on the floor is covered by a single amount, not a per-person rate. Alongside the hired room's venue cost the class is £185 for ninety minutes or £160 for sixty, all inside one written quote. A room's charge depends on the date and the space, extras such as parking can crop up, and the written quote settles all of it.
Where is the studio floor for the day? +
A central Leicester room we hire, chosen with your numbers and the floor space in mind, and named in writing when the date is confirmed. Floor space counts for this theme more than for most.
Ballroom or Latin — which way should we go? +
Ballroom travels and holds long lines; Latin is quicker and hip-driven, with the cha-cha and jive doing the work. Say which appeals on the form, or take one of each across ninety minutes.
There are no men coming. Is that a problem? +
None at all — that is how nearly every booking looks. Nobody is paired off; the material is arranged for the whole party facing one way, so an odd number causes no trouble whatsoever.
Who is sorting the frocks and the sparkle? +
You are, from first sequin to last. Nothing is handed out at the door — no dresses, no shoes, no accessories — so every sequin in the room arrived with somebody. Trainers are the sensible call for the Latin half.
None of us have ever done this properly. Fine? +
Entirely normal. The shapes chosen are the ones that read from a distance rather than the ones needing years of training, no dance experience is assumed anywhere in the party, and stepping out for a section is fine.