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Pole Dancing Hen Party Dance Class Sheffield
A pole dancing hen party dance class with us is a fitness class with very good music — grip, posture, a beginner spin and the noise a room makes when somebody manages one for the first time. It stays clothed, it stays about the dancing, and it runs at the studio we hire in Sheffield city centre, which is where the poles live. £175 flat for the ninety-minute workshop, £150 for the hour, the same total however many hens turn up.
Check your date
Check the date before the group votes.
Pole runs at one particular kind of room, so dates go faster than they do for the themes we can teach anywhere. Send an approximate weekend and an approximate number and we will tell you honestly what is open, what the studio costs and what the whole thing comes to.
Grip first, spins secondWhere 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
How we teach it
A strength class with excellent music.
That framing matters, because it is the version most hen groups actually want. The opening stretch goes on grip, posture and learning to hold your own weight, since everything after it depends on those three things. Only then do the spins arrive, and they turn out to be far more about technique and timing than about muscle — which is why the person who insisted she had no upper-body strength is usually the one still going at the end. It is the theme booked with the most nerves on our hen party dance class list and, without fail, the one groups message us about the following week.
Sessions run as a rotation. A few people take a pole while everybody else works on the floor — conditioning, the walk around the base, the arm lines that make a beginner spin look deliberate rather than accidental — and then the groups swap, so nobody spends the session queueing. Expect a couple of spins, a pose and a short sequence joining them together, pitched at what the room can genuinely manage rather than at a syllabus. There is no striptease element whatsoever: everyone stays clothed and the instruction stays technical. Groups who want the theatre without the pole tend to book burlesque, and anyone after sharp choreography and attitude on the floor goes for commercial instead.
Two practical notes. Shorts beat leggings, because skin against the pole is what stops you sliding, and bare feet are entirely normal — heels are optional and, like every other bit of kit, yours to bring, as we don't supply costumes, shoes or props. Second, this is the one theme that cannot travel to you: the poles are fixed at the studio we hire in Sheffield city centre, so the class happens there, five minutes from the station and handily placed for the rest of the day. If a hen decides she wants more of it, pole is one of the twenty styles in our weekly dance classes.
In the flat fee
What the one flat fee buys the whole group.
Ninety minutes is worth it here — a rotation needs room to breathe, and the extra half hour is where the spins stop being an experiment. Studio hire is the one addition, quoted before you commit.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- Pole Dancing 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 warm-up aimed squarely at grip, shoulders and staying safe on the pole
- Beginner spins taught in stages, with a spot from the instructor throughout
- Floor and conditioning work between turns so nobody stands about waiting
- A short sequence joining the spins, adjusted to what the room can do
- Encouragement rather than a spotlight, for the bride and everyone else
- Time at the end for photographs, once people have stopped screaming
Perfect for
- A group who fancy a proper physical challenge before dinner
- Brides who have said no to every other suggestion on the list
- Hens who want bragging rights from a single afternoon
- Anyone curious about pole but unwilling to walk into a class alone
- Small parties, where everybody gets plenty of turns
- Groups who like the idea of aching slightly on the wedding-planning call
The usual running order
Ninety minutes on and off the pole.
The first section is unglamorous and completely essential: shoulders, wrists and grip, plus a walk around the pole that teaches posture without anybody noticing they are being taught it. Nerves usually go somewhere in the first ten minutes, roughly when the group realises everybody else is equally uncertain. From there the room splits into rotations, with one set of hens on the poles and the rest working through floor exercises alongside.
The middle is spins — one taught properly, then a second built on top of it, with the instructor spotting each attempt and breaking the movement down again for anybody who wants it slower. The last stretch joins what has been learned into a short sequence and leaves time for photographs, which is when the phones come out and the noise level goes up considerably. With ninety minutes there is room for more turns each and less waiting. Exactly how the session divides depends on the size of your group and how it is going on the day, so treat this as the usual shape rather than a fixed running order.
Once everyone came down
What the group said afterwards.
Eleven of us walked in terrified and every single one got a spin. The instructor spotted every attempt and never once made anybody feel daft.
Shoulders. Absolutely destroyed. Ten out of ten.
I booked pole dancing expecting something a bit cringe and got a genuinely hard fitness class instead, which is exactly what our lot wanted. Half the group has since looked up weekly classes.
The bride's mum came, watched for ten minutes, then took her cardigan off and had a go. Nobody had that on the bingo card.
Straight answers
Pole Dancing, before you book it.
1Is the pole dancing class a striptease class?
No. It is taught as fitness and dance from beginning to end — grip, strength, spins and a short sequence — and everybody stays fully clothed throughout. If your group wants something cheekier and more theatrical, burlesque is the theme that covers it, and we are happy to steer you there instead.
2Do we need any strength to try pole dancing?
Less than people assume. The beginner spins rely on technique and timing far more than on muscle, and the warm-up spends real time on the grip and shoulder work that makes them possible. Everything can be scaled back, and choosing to watch a round costs nobody anything.
3What should we wear to a pole dancing hen class?
Shorts and a vest are the practical answer, because bare skin on the pole is what gives you grip — leggings slide. Bare feet are standard and heels are entirely optional. We don't supply kit, shoes or costumes, so bring whatever you plan to dance in.
4How many hens can do a pole class at once?
Smaller parties get the most out of it, since everyone gets more turns, but bigger groups work perfectly well with a longer rotation and more floor work in between. Tell us your rough headcount when you enquire and we will be straight with you about how the time would split.
5What does a pole dancing hen party cost?
£175 for the ninety-minute workshop or £150 for the hour, flat for the whole party, with studio hire on top and confirmed in advance. Nothing is priced per person, so nobody is doing sums at the end of the afternoon.
6Where are the poles, and can you come to our accommodation?
The poles are fitted at the studio we hire in Sheffield city centre, so pole sessions always run there — the address comes with your confirmation. 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. This is the one theme that cannot travel, so if you would rather we came to the house or cottage the group has taken, say so and we will suggest a theme that works in your own space.