Taylor Swift hen party dance class Derby your eras, our room, one price
A private room, a speaker, and an argument about eras that will last longer than the class itself. Your teacher listens to what the group actually wants, and the routine is built around your group there and then, which is why no two of these bookings resemble each other. Everybody dances on one figure — £176 for the full ninety minutes — with the hired room's venue cost quoted in writing next to it; a sixty-minute class costs £151 plus venue.
The bit where everyone forgets to be embarrassed
Roughly forty minutes in, which is when a Taylor Swift booking stops being a novelty and turns into people genuinely wanting to get the counts right.
Secure the afternoon, argue about eras afterwards
Send a rough date and a rough headcount. You get a call back carrying availability at both rooms and one written total for the class and the venue, which is usually all it takes to end three weeks of polite indecision in the group chat.
The era debate can run as long as it likes; it changes nothing about the booking. A hen do dance class stays flexible late, and a dance hen party can shift theme entirely after the date is held. Nobody needs dance experience, which is why this hen party dance class outlives most of the other hen party activities on the list — and it is a hen party idea that works whether the group is nine or twenty.
Choreography written around the eras you pick
"Every group arrives with a different Taylor. The job is to work out which one is standing in front of you and build for her." Teacher's note, Derby rooms
This is the theme where the group has the most influence over the session. Tell the teacher the party is mostly here for the pop and you get the sharp, poppy material; tell them half the room would rather have the storytelling songs and the routine shifts accordingly, tempo and all.
Ninety minutes lets the teacher run a mini medley across more than one era if the group wants it, complete with the costume-change comedy of pretending to swap looks mid-routine, and leaves time to film the finish while everyone can still breathe. We record nothing ourselves; the footage is entirely yours, along with the responsibility for where it ends up. Sixty minutes is enough for one era done properly, taught from nothing to a real ending.
Eras are the reason we point Swifties towards ninety. Hopping from the sharp pop material to a storytelling song means a change of tempo and of mood, and each switch needs a moment to settle before the next one arrives; the longer booking gives the group those moments, plus a breather before the finish gets filmed.
Name your eras in the form. It genuinely changes what gets planned for the room.
Five eras that usually make the ballot
FearlessBig, open, country-pop arm work. Love Story is the easiest thing here to teach a room.
gentle startRedStorytelling tempos with room to be dramatic. Good for parties who want to act.
crowd favourite1989Shake It Off does the heavy lifting; pure pop shapes, forgiving counts.
bankerReputationSharper, moodier, and the era confident groups keep voting for.
if the room asksMidnights & LoverAnti-Hero attitude, Cruel Summer energy. Usually where the finale lands.
closerTo be clear: that is a ballot paper, not a programme. The teacher settles what is taught on the day around the group in the room, and no order of play is promised beforehand.
Got an era the group will riot over?Say so in the message box and the routine bends towards it.
Send your eras ↑
Where the eras fit into a Derby day out
Mid-afternoon is the sweet spot. The Railway Terrace, Derby DE1 2RU room sits beside the station, which suits parties travelling in from Ripley or Ashbourne for the day; the Chapel Street, Derby DE1 3GU room is at the top of the centre, handy for the Derbion if anybody still needs an outfit and for Iron Gate when the evening starts. Groups with a spare hour and decent weather often walk it off in Darley Park afterwards.
Outfits are entirely the party's own doing. We supply no costumes, no bracelets, no sequins and nothing else — the teacher, the music and the room are the full list — so whatever the group makes between them is what appears on camera. Jeans get exactly the same class, minus the photographs people frame.
Two letters from the front row
"We had told the teacher beforehand that four of the group were only tolerating this, and by the second era those four were front and centre arguing about counts. Fifteen of us, no stragglers, and a finale that took two takes."
"Nineteen people is a lot to organise and this was the only part of the weekend where the price did not creep. One figure, written down, room named a fortnight early, nobody chasing anybody for money."
Fancy the same afternoon?Thirty seconds at the desk holds the date and the room.
Hold the date ↑Six questions, no marketing
Anything not covered here, ring 07534 019087 and ask outright.
How much are the two Swiftie options? +
Two options only, and ninety is the one we recommend: £176 for ninety minutes, or £151 for sixty. Both cover everyone, and the venue cost of the room is written out next to them.
Which eras usually end up in the routine? +
Whichever your group pushes for. Fearless, Red, 1989, Reputation and the Midnights and Lover songs are the usual contenders, settled on the day.
Do we need cardigans and beaded bracelets? +
Only if the group fancies it. None of it comes from us, so costume is your own project — and jeans get the identical class.
Will the non-fans in the group be bored? +
Rarely — the routine is built to be learnable, not to test anyone's back catalogue. Knowing the songs is not a requirement.
Not one of us has danced in years? +
That is the standard booking. No dance experience needed, the routine is built around what the room can do, and sitting one out is fine.
Which room in Derby stages the eras? +
Two possibilities, both hired and both private: beside the station on Railway Terrace, or up at the top of the centre on Chapel Street. The confirmation says which.