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Hen party dance class in Derby mid-routine with their teacher

Hen party dance class Derby & dance classes in Derby

One private room, one patient teacher, ninety minutes of your group learning a themed routine from a standing start. The whole party pays £176 for that ninety, plus the venue cost of the room we hire, quoted in writing before you commit to anything; a sixty-minute class is £151 plus venue.

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The hen party activity where your group is the entertainment

Scrolling hen party ideas at midnight? Most of them sit the group down and charge per head for the privilege. A dance hen party works the other way: for ninety gloriously silly minutes, your lot are the show. Pick from 38 themes — Beyoncé to Strictly, Chicago to cheerleading — and a teacher composes the routine live, in the room, around whoever turned up.

A hen do dance class here runs on a flat group fee: £176 for ninety minutes — the length we recommend — plus the venue cost of the central Derby room we hire in your name, or £151 plus venue if the day only fits an hour. Nothing is priced per person, so when your numbers wobble — and every group's numbers wobble — the figure in writing stays the figure. No dance experience anywhere in the group? That's the standard booking, duck. Bring comfy shoes and the group chat's sense of humour; fancy dress is your department and all the better for it.

Hen weekends based in the city stroll it; groups from Long Eaton, Belper, Ilkeston and Burton upon Trent train in without drama.

The catalogue

Eight from the theme rail

View all 38 themes

Theme half-decided?The enquiry form at the foot of this page holds a date while you deliberate.

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Hen group laughing mid-rehearsal at a Derby dance class
The rooms

Two streets, both central, both ours for your session

We hire private rooms off Railway Terrace — two minutes from Derby station — and on Chapel Street at the top of the centre. Your booking names its exact room in writing before you pay a penny, and both put you a short walk from the Market Place, Sadler Gate and wherever the evening is headed.

Railway Terrace · DE1Chapel Street · DE1
PricesIn print, on purpose

The figures, before you have to ask

No. 1

Hen session · ninety minutesThe full production and the length we recommend — venue charges added in the same written quote, first.

£176
No. 2

Hen session · sixty minutesThe shorter option when the day is crammed — any theme, whole group in, venue cost for the hired room quoted on top.

£151
No. 3

The room itselfVenue charges vary place to place — occasionally with extras like parking — so the written quote is the number that counts.

quoted
No. 4

Weekly classesTwenty styles, pay as you go, room cost folded in.

£10 / £32
No. 5

Wedding first dancePrivate lessons with the studio hire inside the price.

from £75

Choosing between the two hen lengths? Ours would be the ninety. A group arriving cold needs a while to stop apologising for itself, and the extra half hour is where that happens: time for the teacher to rebuild a tricky section, for the guests convinced they cannot dance to change their minds, and for the finale to be filmed without anybody checking a watch.

Hen pricing is never done by headcount — most Derby hen activities are, so run the per-person maths for your group size before deciding we're the dear option.

Numbers check out?Five fields below and the written quote is on its way back to you.

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The listings

Weekly dance classes in Derby, opened by demand

£10 a class or £32 for four, no memberships and no term fees. Each style runs an interest list; when enough Derby names are down, we hire the room and the class begins. Your name is the vote.

All 20 styles
ReviewsUnedited

Three columns from recent groups

"Our teacher had the measure of us inside five minutes — gave the show-off the spin, gave the bride the centre spot, gave the rest of us moves we could actually do. The finale video is still doing numbers in the family group chat."
Maid of honour · party of 14 · drinks on Sadler Gate after
"I organised the whole weekend and this was the only booking that gave me one figure in writing — room included — instead of a per-head quote that crept up every time someone confirmed. Ey up to whoever designed that system."
Organiser · party of 11 · in from Belper
"Booked ninety minutes so we could split it between two themes. The bride's mum sat out exactly one song and was front and centre for the rest. Nobody has stopped talking about it."
Bride's sister · party of 17 · station run from Long Eaton
FAQ

The questions every group sends first

Anything else, ring 07534 019087 — it's answered by a person who can actually book you in.

What's the going rate for a hen dance session? +

Our recommended ninety minutes costs £176 for the entire group, with the hired room's venue cost added and the lot put in writing before you commit. An hour-long class is the fallback, at £151 plus venue.

Which Derby rooms do the classes run in? +

Private hired rooms off Railway Terrace by the station and on Chapel Street at the top of the centre — your exact room is named in writing at booking.

Can a group with zero dance background manage? +

That's the default booking. The routine is composed live around the actual room, so no dance experience is required anywhere in the group.

Does the same fee cover every theme? +

Yes — all 38 themes run at the same flat group fee plus venue cost. No supplements, ever.

Is there more here than hen parties? +

Twenty weekly class styles at £10 a time on an interest-list model, and wedding first-dance lessons from £75 with studio hire included.

BookingsBack page

Put a date in front of us

Rough date, rough headcount, theme shortlist — approximations welcome on all three. Within the day you get the call back: a straight yes-or-no on your date, and a single written figure with the hired room already inside it. Dates that are gone get told to you plainly, not strung along.

Prefer voices? 07534 019087. Weekly-class and wedding questions come through the same form — pick the right subject line.

Enquiries desk

Five fields — shorter than the group chat thread that got you here.

Read by a person; hen dates answered by phone within the day.