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Greatest Showman Hen Party Dance Class Sheffield
Stamp, clap, arms wide, everybody together — a Greatest Showman hen party dance class in Sheffield is the one built for the whole room rather than the three people at the front. A private choreographer, a studio we hire in the city centre, and a single fee for the party: £175 for the ninety-minute workshop, £150 if an hour suits you better.
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Bigger group? Same price. Ask us.
Because the fee never moves, the sums get better the more of you there are — which is exactly why this theme suits a thirty-strong party. Send a date and an approximate number and we will find a room to match and put the whole cost in writing.
Everyone in, which is rather the pointWhere 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 ensemble matters
Nobody hides at the back in this one.
Most themes on our hen party dance class list have a natural front row. This one does not, and that is precisely why organisers keep choosing it for the awkward bookings — the party of twenty-eight, the group where four people have already announced they will be watching from a chair, the bride who cannot bear the idea of anyone feeling left out of her own hen do. The choreography is written for a crowd moving as one: stamps, claps, arms thrown open, a chorus everybody hits at the same moment. It is very hard to feel self-conscious when twenty-seven other people are doing the identical thing beside you.
Rhythm does a lot of the teaching here. Sessions often begin with the group learning a stomp-and-clap pattern before any footwork appears, because once a room can hold a beat together the rest arrives quickly. From there the choreographer builds simple ring and line formations, adds a lift of the arms that reads brilliantly on camera, and gives the bride an entrance through the middle if she wants one. Top hats, sequins, ringmaster jackets and canes are the group's own to bring, since no props, costumes or shoes come from us, and the class is inspired by the 2017 film without any affiliation to it. The music and the running order are settled with your party on the day. Groups after more swagger and less sincerity like SIX the Musical, while a younger, bouncier party often prefers High School Musical.
It is the theme we suggest most often for a huge, mixed, slightly nervous party — three sets of friends who have never met, a couple of cousins in their twenties, an aunt with a dodgy hip, and a bride quietly worrying that half of them will hate it. The flat fee helps too, because a thirty-person party pays the same as a group of eight. Sheffield is well set up for that sort of weekend: everyone can meet at the station, walk to the studio and be in the Peace Gardens twenty minutes after the last run-through. Brides who enjoy the singing often reappear later for first-dance lessons.
Nothing hidden
£175 for the room, whoever is in it.
The ninety-minute booking is the usual choice and the sensible one for a large party, since the formations take a little building. Venue hire is added separately and always confirmed with you first.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- Greatest Showman 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 Greatest Showman-inspired routine chosen with your group
- Stomp-and-clap rhythm work before anything complicated appears
- Formations that give everyone a line of sight to the front
- A teacher who slows a section down the moment it needs slowing
- An entrance for the bride if she wants one, and no fuss if not
- A final performance timed so somebody can film the lot
Perfect for
- Enormous parties where twenty-five is the starting point
- Anyone who has announced they will "just watch"
- Three separate friendship groups meeting at once
- A bride who wants nobody left sitting down
- Hen dos where the soundtrack is already on repeat in the car
- Weekends that want one properly loud shared moment
Rhythm, then shapes
The usual run of a Showman session.
Almost every session opens with noise rather than steps. The group stands in a circle and learns a stamp-clap pattern, passes it round, splits it in two so half the room answers the other half, and somewhere in that first fifteen minutes the party stops being a collection of separate friendship groups. Feet come next, kept deliberately simple, because a wide arm shape performed by thirty people in unison beats a clever step done by four.
The second half is about shape. Lines, rings and a corridor down the middle get arranged so that everyone is visible and nobody ends up behind a pillar, and the bride is offered a walk through the centre — plenty take it, plenty hand it straight back, and both are fine. The routine ends on a held pose with the arms up, which is the photograph the group will still be sending each other a fortnight later. With ninety minutes there is room to perform it more than once and film it properly. All of this is put together with your party on the day, so treat the description as the usual shape of a session and not a fixed setlist.
Afterwards
What the Showman groups wrote back.
Twenty-nine of us and one price. That alone sold it to me, and then the routine turned out to be the thing that finally got three separate groups of friends talking to each other.
My auntie said she would sit and watch. She was in the middle of the circle within ten minutes and has since asked where she can carry on.
The clapping bit at the start is genius. Nobody had time to be shy.
We have a group photo of thirty women with their arms in the air and every single one of us is grinning. It is going on the wall at the wedding.
Greatest Showman, answered
Six questions, straight answers.
1Is Greatest Showman a good choice for a very large hen party?
It is the theme we recommend most often once numbers pass twenty. The choreography is written for a crowd, so extra people improve it rather than complicating it, and the fee does not change however many come. All we need is a rough total early on so the room is big enough.
2Do we have to sing during the Greatest Showman class?
Nobody is made to, and yet almost everybody does by the last run-through. The routine is built around stamping and clapping rather than voices, so singing is entirely optional decoration. If your group is the sort that will bellow the chorus, the choreographer will simply leave space for it.
3Is the class officially linked to the film?
Not in any way. We are an independent dance company in Sheffield and the session is inspired by the 2017 musical, with no affiliation to the studio, the producers or the cast. What you book is a private choreographer and a routine written for your group.
4Half our hens have no rhythm whatsoever. Will they cope?
They will, and the opening clapping section exists largely for them. Rhythm is taught out loud and as a group, so anyone struggling is carried along by the people either side rather than exposed. The steps stay simple by design because unison is what makes this theme look good.
5Should we bring top hats and sequins?
Bring them if you fancy them — they photograph beautifully — but be aware that every prop and costume is the group's own responsibility, as we provide none at all, footwear included. A red jacket for the bride and something sparkly for everyone else is as far as most parties go, and plenty turn up in ordinary gym kit.
6Which venue hosts Greatest Showman hen parties in Sheffield?
A studio we hire in Sheffield city centre, picked for having enough space that a party of thirty can spread into lines, and the address goes out with your confirmation. Expect either Bailey Street (S1 4EH) or the studio at Surrey Street (S1 2LG), both a short stroll from the station; the booking email says which. Groups staying together elsewhere — a city apartment, a farmhouse over towards the Peak District — can have the choreographer travel to them, provided there is room to form a circle.