Hen party themes · 80s
80s Hen Party Dance Class Blackpool
An 80s hen party dance class in Blackpool, taught by choreographers who take leg warmers extremely seriously. Grapevines, shoulder pops and a chorus nobody needs the words to, all for one flat fee: £185 plus the venue buys the whole group ninety minutes, or £160 plus the venue gets you an hour.
Book it
Give us a date and roughly how many.
Whether the bride leans Wham! or Whitney changes the finale more than you would think. The rest — the room, the timings, how much neon is involved — we work out from your date and headcount.
- £185 plus the venue, whatever the headcount
- The room we hire in town, or the hotel you are already in
- An answer inside 24 hours, dates and room included
A real Blackpool hen groupWhere the class happens
A function room we hire on Hornby Road, or we come to you.
- Hornby Road, FY1 4RDThe hired town-centre function room — two minutes from the Winter Gardens; confirmed with your booking
- Your hotel or apartmentFunction room or a cleared lounge anywhere on the front, and along the Fylde coast by arrangement
Why the 80s land here
A decade that was already choreographed.
Ask a room of hens to name an 80s move and you will get four answers before the question is finished: the grapevine, the shoulder shimmy, the pointing thing from every video ever shot on a fire escape. That shared muscle memory is why the decade makes such a soft landing for a hen do dance class — nobody starts from nothing, so the choreographer spends the time on polish instead of persuasion. It also suits a town that has run on light bulbs and enormous choruses since long before the Illuminations went LED.
The routine gets built the way the decade did. A strong, obvious count underneath, one unmissable arm on top, and a chorus you can see coming from four bars away. Footwork comes first, taught slowly enough to talk over, and the arms go on after, because arms are where 80s dancing actually lives. Somewhere around the halfway mark most groups get a facing-off section — two lines, one copying the other, then swapping — and that is usually the moment the phones come out and the last of the self-consciousness leaves the room. None of it is locked in beforehand: which tracks carry the routine is agreed with your group, and the choreographer reads the room on the day.
Leg warmers, scrunchies, a headband each — bring whatever you fancy, because we do not supply costumes, props or shoes, and half the room usually turns up in trainers regardless. One party came straight off the tram from Cleveleys in full neon and got changed in the corridor; another turned up in office clothes on a Friday teatime. Both routines looked identical by the last run. If you would rather jump a decade forward, the 90s class swaps neon for attitude; if you want the same singalong instinct with more sequins on it, ABBA is the obvious neighbour. And when a group decides mid-routine that they rather like this, our weekly dance classes in Blackpool pick up where the hen weekend stops.
The bill, itemised
Everything one flat fee gets the 80s group.
Nearly every 80s group takes the ninety minutes. Hire of the function room is the only thing on top, quoted before you commit — and nothing at all when we come to your hotel instead. Whether you searched for a 80s dance class hen party or a 80s dance hen party in Blackpool, this is the one flat-fee version.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- 80s 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
- An 80s routine shaped around the tracks your group actually loves
- Footwork taught first, arms layered on after, in short repeated chunks
- A two-line face-off section if the room fancies showing off
- A choreographer who reads the group and changes tack on the day
- A bride moment as large or as small as she wants it
- A last full run staged so it films well
Perfect for
- A bride who still knows every word to Wham!
- Groups where the youngest is nineteen and the oldest is seventy-one
- Hens after a proper laugh rather than a workout
- A hen party activity for the Saturday afternoon before the Golden Mile takes over
- Parties who committed to neon in the group chat months ago
- Anyone hunting a hen party idea that is not another cocktail-making session
How the ninety minutes tends to go
Ninety minutes, 1985-ish.
The warm-up is really the routine at half speed — a grapevine, a clap, a turn — so the room is moving in time before anyone has decided whether they are nervous. Your choreographer then teaches in short phrases and loops each one until the back row stops watching the front row. The arms arrive next, and that is reliably the point where the volume in the room goes up by about forty per cent.
The last stretch joins everything together: a face-off between two lines, then the full routine with the bride out front for her handful of counts. Ninety minutes is enough to get two complete run-throughs out of it, which matters: the first belongs to the group and the second is the one that gets sent to the groom. None of that is a promise, mind: how the split between teaching, running and filming falls gets decided in the room, on the day, by whoever is standing in it.
What they said after
Straight off the floor, still in the leg warmers.
Twenty-one of us, ages nineteen to seventy-one, and by the second run-through my nan had the arms better than I did.
We booked it as the sensible daytime thing and it turned into the bit everybody talked about all weekend.
Neon, grapevines, no regrets.
Our teacher spotted in about ten seconds that half of us were terrified, and rebuilt the middle section around that. Nobody got left standing at the back.
Before you book
80s questions, answered.
IHow do we decide which 80s tracks get used?
Whatever your group leans towards, which usually means the enormous chart ones. If the bride has a track she would sprint to the dancefloor for, that is the one the finale gets built on. There is no fixed setlist here — it is agreed with you beforehand and finished off on the day.
IIDo we need leg warmers and neon for the 80s class?
Only for the photographs. Nothing themed comes from us at all — no costumes, no props, nothing for your feet — so the neon is entirely your department, and leggings with trainers dance better regardless. Plenty of groups go half and half, which somehow looks even better on camera.
IIIIs an 80s routine manageable if none of us dance?
It is one of the friendliest themes we teach for a dance hen party, because the counts are obvious and the arms do most of the work. Everything arrives in four- or eight-count chunks and gets repeated until it sticks. If you can clap on the beat you will be absolutely fine.
IVCan the bride have her own moment in the 80s routine?
Yes, and how big that moment gets is entirely her call. Some brides want eight counts out front with the group behind them; others would much rather stay in the line and be left alone. Say which in the enquiry and the choreographer builds it that way.
VIs an 80s class a good hen party activity for a mixed-age group?
It is one of the best hen party ideas going when the group spans three generations, because everybody shares the same reference points. Mums, aunties and teenage cousins all recognise the songs, so nobody quietly sits it out by the drinks table.
VIWhere exactly is the 80s class held?
The function room we hire on Hornby Road (FY1 4RD): a couple of minutes from the Winter Gardens and easy to reach from Blackpool North or the trams. Which room you get is confirmed when your booking is. Staying somewhere with its own function space, or an apartment with a floor that can be cleared? Then we bring the whole thing to you rather than the other way about.