Hen party themes · 90s
90s Hen Party Dance Class Sheffield
A 90s hen party dance class in Sheffield built around the thing half your group secretly practised in front of a mirror: the music-video routine. Bounce in the knees, arms that snap, a line that changes shape on the chorus. Private choreographer, a studio we hire in the city centre, and one fee for the lot of you — £175 for the ninety-minute workshop, £150 for the hour.
Check your date
Give us a weekend and we'll check the diary.
Nothing has to be finalised to ask. A month, a rough headcount and where the group is staying is enough for us to come back with availability, a studio and the total.
Nineties formations, mid-sessionWhere the class happens
Two rooms we hire in Sheffield city centre, or we come to you.
- Bailey Street, S1 4EHHired studio near West Street and the Devonshire Quarter
- Surrey Street, S1 2LGHired room beside the Peace Gardens and the Crucible
- Your own venueHouse, cottage or hotel space across Sheffield and the Peaks — clear the floor and we travel to you
Why the nineties works
A whole decade of copying the telly.
Ask a hen group what the nineties sounded like and you'll get three answers, all of them right and all of them danceable. It was the decade that taught a generation to learn choreography off a music video, which is why a nineties booking from our hen party dance class range starts a few steps ahead of the rest: some of this is already in the muscle memory. The shapes are angular rather than flowing — a bounce in the knees, arms that snap into place, a line that reshuffles on the chorus. It photographs sharply and it forgives an awful lot on the floor.
The choreographer's first job is working out which corner of the decade your party lives in. Girl-band pop pulls one way, boyband harmonies another, and a group of Sheffield students who only know the nineties from playlists wants something different again to twelve women who lived through it in a school hall. Once that's settled, the routine is assembled in short phrases, each one looped until the room stops watching the front and starts watching each other. Outfits are entirely your department — crop tops, combats, matching scrunchies, whatever the group chat has decided on — since we don't hand out costumes, props or shoes. If the party would rather pin it to one act, the Spice Girls class narrows the focus, and Britney carries the same energy over into the millennium.
It's a good match for a hen do with a competitive streak, because formation work quietly becomes an argument about who has the sharpest arms. It fits a day out, too: an afternoon in the city centre leaves everyone loose, warm and comfortably early for a table on Division Street. Brides tend to choose it when they want photographs with a bit of swagger instead of a soft group hug. A decent number of guests come back afterwards for one of our weekly dance classes, having discovered they can do this after all.
Inside the flat fee
Everything £175 covers for the group.
Almost every party takes the ninety minutes. The room we hire is the single item added afterwards, priced and agreed with you before you commit to anything.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- 90s choreography built for your group
- All music and sound equipment
- Warm-up and cool-down
- Beginner-friendly instruction
- Photo and video opportunities
- Help picking the theme and the song
- Group coordination beforehand
- A spotlight moment for the bride
What you'll experience
- A 90s routine drawn from whichever tracks your group shouts about first
- Formation changes that make a dozen beginners look rehearsed
- Phrases taught on a loop until nobody is counting out loud any more
- A choreographer happy to bin a section the room isn't enjoying
- Whatever share of the limelight the bride is actually willing to take
- A closing run paced for cameras rather than for fitness
Perfect for
- Hens who learned to dance off music videos
- Groups that want swagger in the photographs
- Sisters and cousins who need an excuse to talk to each other
- A bride whose wedding playlist is basically 1997
- Afternoons that have to leave everyone cheerful by six
- Parties where nobody wants a partner, a lift or a heel
The ninety minutes
What a 90s session tends to look like.
Nothing formal happens for the first few minutes. The playlist goes on, people claim a patch of floor, and the warm-up quietly smuggles in the bounce and the arm positions the whole thing is built from. The opening phrase is short by design — eight counts and one change of direction — and it repeats until heads come up off the floor. Then the formation appears, two lines or a wedge with the bride at the point, and the same eight counts suddenly look like something off a video.
The back half stacks phrases together and adds the parts that are fun to watch: a stretch where one line holds still while the other moves, a chorus everybody hits at the same instant, a gap for whatever spotlight the bride will accept. Ninety minutes gives room to perform the finished routine more than once, so nobody has to choose between dancing it and filming it. How the time actually divides up is settled in the room on the day with your group — read the outline above as the usual rhythm of a session, not a running order we're promising.
Once the music stopped
What the 90s groups told us.
Twenty minutes in, my aunties were doing formation changes. I still don't know how she managed it, but the 90s routine was genuinely tight by the end.
We picked the ninety minutes on a whim and I'd say do the same. That extra half hour is exactly where it went from shambles to something we were proud to post.
Ten of us, one price, no splitting the bill afterwards. The 90s stuff suited a group who mostly wanted to shout along.
Sharper than my actual wedding photos.
90s, answered
The questions we get about the 90s.
1What will we be dancing to in a 90s class?
Whatever suits the room. Some parties want chart pop, some want R&B and garage, and the instructor reads that before choosing anything. Name the one track the bride would be furious to miss in your enquiry and we'll aim at it, but the playlist is a decision made with you on the day rather than a promise made in advance.
2Is 90s choreography too hard for a group of beginners?
No — the trick with this decade is that the moves are angular, which is far easier to copy than anything smooth. Each phrase is eight counts long and repeated until it sticks, and anything the group struggles with gets simplified rather than pushed. Nobody is auditioned and nobody is left standing on their own.
3Our hen party is nineteen to sixty-eight. Does the 90s theme still land?
Mixed ages are the norm here and the nineties handles them better than most themes, because the older half lived through it and the younger half grew up on the samples. Formation work also helps: everyone has a place to stand, so nobody feels exposed. We pitch the pace at whoever is finding it hardest.
4What should we wear for a 90s hen class?
Anything you can move in, and anything nineties you fancy putting together yourselves. Costumes, props and shoes are not something we provide, so the crop tops, combats and scrunchies come from the group. Trainers beat heels for the actual dancing, whatever the outfit ends up being.
5Can we record the 90s routine at the end?
Yes, and the final run is deliberately paced so the footage looks decent. Hand a phone to whoever is least keen on dancing, or stand one on the speaker. With the ninety-minute workshop we usually go through it twice, so the camera never costs anyone a turn.
6Do you have a venue, or does the group sort that out?
Usually a studio we hire in Sheffield city centre — walkable from the station, the Winter Garden and the bars everyone heads to afterwards — and we tell you exactly which one when the booking is confirmed. In practice that means one of two hired studios — Bailey Street, S1 4EH, or Surrey Street, S1 2LG — and your confirmation names the one you've got. If your party has taken a house or a cottage instead, in the city or over towards the Peak District, we can bring the class to you provided there's clear floor space.