Cheerleading hen party dance class Derby sharp arms, loud voices, feet on the floor
Ninety minutes of squad practice with no pyramid at the end of it: blocked arm shapes, counts hit together, jumps for whoever wants them, and a chant built around the bride’s new surname. £176 covers the full ninety minutes for the entire group, with the venue cost of the room we hire quoted in writing beside it; a sixty-minute practice is £151 plus venue.
Loud, tidy and firmly on the ground
Arms locked, counts shouted, nobody airborne. It rehearses like a squad and photographs like one, which is most of the appeal — and it asks absolutely nothing of anybody’s shoulders or nerve.
Lock the date, decide the poms later
Two lines on the form — roughly when, roughly how many — and the desk rings back the same day with room availability and a single written total. Most groups tell us afterwards that the hen party dance class was the first thing they actually managed to fix.
You do not have to know your theme yet. Dates get held first, and a hen do dance class can be pointed at something completely different right up to the final week. What a dance hen party has over most hen party activities is range: the eighteen-year-old and the mother of the bride both end up in the line, which is more than can be said for most hen party ideas that get floated, and no dance experience is asked of anyone.
A practice session, not a performance team
“Cheer looks difficult because it is precise, not because it is dangerous. Precision can be taught in an afternoon.” House position on stunting
The teacher runs it like a drill session: a shape, a count, a correction, the shape again, until a room that walked in giggling starts hitting the same line at the same instant. Nothing is choreographed before she meets you — the routine is composed on the day around who is standing there and how loud they are willing to get.
No lifts and no stunts, on any booking. Nobody is thrown, caught or stacked and nobody leaves the floor. What you do get is the vocabulary that actually reads on camera: high V, low V, the clean clap, a punch and hold, a tuck jump for the volunteers, and a shout-back section where two halves of the room answer each other across the middle.
Ninety minutes is the practice we recommend: time to give the chant some shape, perhaps another formation change, and a last run rehearsed for filming on your own phones — we film nothing and keep nothing. Sixty lands the routine plus a short chant.
A drill is only as good as its repetitions — shape, count, correction, shape again — and a longer practice simply allows more of them. So ninety suits a squad: the clap has time to go from ragged to clean, the tuck-jump volunteers get breathers, and the surname chant comes out with confidence instead of being read off a phone.
Jumps are optional every single time they come up, and a decent third of every group sits them out without it showing in the final run.
Five pieces of the cheer alphabet
High V and low VThe two shapes everything hangs off; ten minutes and the room already looks like a squad.
bankerThe clean clapDeceptively hard, hugely satisfying when fifteen pairs of hands land together.
front-runnerTuck jumpEntirely opt-in, and the photograph everybody wants afterwards.
if timeThe shout-backTwo halves of the room trading lines; loudest thing on our books.
wildcardThe name chantBuilt from her married surname and, yes, aimed straight at the ceiling.
closerThat is a menu rather than a running order. The teacher takes whatever the group can carry on the day and leaves the rest behind, and nothing gets committed to before she has seen you move.
Got a surname for us?Drop it in the message box and the chant gets written around it.
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What to bring, and what we never provide
Nothing is supplied. No poms, no skirts, no crop tops, no bows — not now and not ever — and that is genuinely where a lot of the fun lives. The cheapest poms on the internet arrive inside two days and cost less than a round; a group that turns up with matching ones in her wedding colours has effectively won before the warm-up. A group in leggings and trainers gets precisely the same practice.
Both rooms we hire sit in the middle of town: one off Railway Terrace, Derby DE1 2RU, by the station for groups arriving by train from Long Eaton or Ilkeston, one on Chapel Street, Derby DE1 3GU, a few minutes’ walk from the Market Place. We take whichever has the better ceiling for jumps on the day and name it in writing before you commit to anything.
Two letters from former squads
“We shouted her new surname at the ceiling for a solid ten minutes and I have never seen her so delighted. Nobody was lifted, nothing was frightening, and my sister sat the jumps out without missing a thing.”
“One price for all eighteen of us, poms we bought ourselves for the cost of a round, and a teacher who got a room of total beginners moving as one line. Take the longer session.”
Squad of any sizeEighteen hens or eight, the class fee is the identical figure either way.
Send the date ↑Six questions before the whistle
The one that always arrives by text is “can we be louder than the group next door?” — ring 07534 019087. The honest answer is that you almost certainly will be.
What is the full cost for our squad? +
£176 for ninety minutes, whole squad covered, plus the venue cost of the room we hire — quoted as one written figure, with an hour available at £151 plus venue. Eight hens and twenty-eight hens pay the same class fee.
Are poms and kit included in that? +
No, and they never are. We supply nothing at all — no poms, no skirts, no crop tops, no bows — which is genuinely half the fun, because the cheapest poms online turn up in two days and a group that arrives with matching ones in her colours has already won.
Does any of it involve stunts or pyramids? +
None of it. Nobody is lifted, thrown, caught or stacked, and feet stay on the floor from start to finish. What you learn is the arm work, the counts, the jumps for volunteers only and a chant, which is the part that reads on camera anyway.
How much stamina does this one need? +
Less than you would think. It is loud rather than gruelling, the jumps are opt-in, and roughly a third of every group sits them out without it showing in the final run. No dance experience is needed by anybody in the room.
Can her married surname go in the chant? +
That is usually the best bit. Put it in the message box and the chant gets built around it on the day, along with whatever nickname the group has been threatening her with since the engagement.
Which Derby room does the practice use? +
We hire two spaces, and for this theme we take whichever has the taller ceiling on your date — Chapel Street or Railway Terrace. That decision arrives in writing with the rest of the confirmation.