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ABBA Hen Party Dance Class Blackpool
An ABBA hen party dance class in Blackpool, where the whole room can already sing the harmony line before anyone has taught them a step. Big unison arms, a couple of clean formation changes and a chorus that does half the work: £185 plus the venue for the whole group over ninety minutes, or £160 plus the venue for sixty.
Book it
Send the date and we will sort the room.
The only thing we really need from you early is the weekend and a rough number. After that it is a question of which song the bride wants the finale on, and whether you would rather we came to your hotel.
- £185 plus the venue, and it does not move
- The hired room on Hornby Road, or your hotel's
- One reply within 24 hours, with real dates
A genuine 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 ABBA never fails
Nobody has to be talked into it.
There are themes we have to sell and themes that sell themselves, and this is firmly the second kind. Say the word in a group chat and someone replies with a lyric inside thirty seconds. That instant buy-in matters more than people expect for a hen do dance class, because the hardest part of any hen session is the first ten minutes, and a room that is already singing skips them entirely. It is a natural fit for Blackpool too, a town that has been putting sequins and big choruses on stage for well over a century.
The choreography leans on unison rather than anything clever. Long arms, clear lines, a step everyone can see from the back of the function room, and shapes held slightly longer than feels natural so the whole group lands together and the photographs work. Your choreographer will usually put in one formation change — a wedge, a couple of lines, sometimes a circle if the numbers are odd — because the moment the group moves as a unit is the moment it stops being a lesson. Doing everything together also means the room looks organised almost straight away, and looking organised is most of what anybody remembers from the video afterwards. Which tracks carry it is your decision with her, and the balance between the ballad and the disco end gets settled on the day rather than promised in advance.
Flares, platforms, anything with sequins on it: lovely, and entirely yours to sort out, since we supply neither costumes nor props nor shoes. More than a few parties have booked this one purely so the mother of the bride had something she could properly join in with, which strikes us as a very sound reason. If the group wants the same singalong feeling from a different era, the 80s class does it with neon, while the Strictly class keeps the sequins and adds a ballroom hold. Plenty of the brides who dance with us here turn up again a few months on for a wedding first dance, usually with a rather nervous groom in tow.
The whole-group price
What £185 plus the venue actually covers.
Ninety minutes is the booking almost every ABBA group makes. Hiring the function room is the one thing sitting on top of it, quoted plainly up front, and it disappears altogether if the class comes to your hotel. Book it as a ABBA dance class hen party or a Blackpool ABBA dance hen party; either way nobody is charged per head.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- ABBA 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 ABBA routine assembled from the songs your group calls for
- Unison arms taught big, clean and slow enough to copy
- One formation change once the group can hold a line
- Shapes held a beat longer than feels natural, for the photos
- A finale moment for the bride, or none at all if she prefers
- Time at the end to perform the whole thing properly, twice
Perfect for
- A bride whose karaoke record is entirely one band
- Three generations in the same room with the same favourite songs
- Hen weekends that want a dance hen party rather than a spa morning
- Groups who care what the video looks like afterwards
- Parties staying in a seafront hotel with a function room going spare
- Anyone who wants glitter without anybody having to be good at dancing
The usual ninety minutes
How an ABBA session runs.
It starts with arms, because arms are the whole language of this theme and they are also the easiest thing in the world to get a nervous room doing. Long, slow, matching shapes, counted out loud, until the group is moving together without watching each other. The footwork underneath is kept deliberately simple and gets added once the arms are secure, which is the opposite way round from most themes and works far better for this one.
From there the routine builds chorus first, verse second, on the reasonable grounds that everyone wants to do the chorus. A formation change goes in if the numbers allow, and the bride is placed wherever she is comfortable being placed. The ninety-minute booking leaves a proper margin at the end for two full performances and a group photograph. None of this is a running order we would put in writing. The room, the numbers and the mood between them settle the detail on the day.
Said afterwards
Straight from the dancefloor.
Twelve of us, three generations, and my mother-in-law was the one demanding another run-through at the end.
Glitter everywhere. Worth every penny.
We asked for the slow one for the bride's bit rather than the disco stuff, and the teacher rebuilt the ending around it without a second thought. It was genuinely lovely.
Booked the hotel function room on the front so nobody had to move, and ninety minutes went past in about twenty.
Things people ask
ABBA, answered.
IWhich ABBA songs will the routine be set to?
That is a conversation rather than a menu. Most groups want the big disco ones, some want the ballad for the bride's moment, and the choreographer balances the two once she knows your group. Nothing is promised as a setlist before the day.
IIDo we have to sing during the ABBA class?
Nobody is made to, but almost everybody does by the second chorus. It is that sort of theme. The routine works perfectly well with a silent room, it is just that we have never had one.
IIIAre the ABBA moves difficult?
They are big rather than complicated, which is exactly why the theme suits beginners. Arms first, feet later, everything counted out loud and repeated until it feels automatic. If you can point at something on the beat you have most of it already.
IVDo you supply flares, wigs or platform boots?
We do not — no costumes, no props and no shoes come from our side, so any seventies outfit is a group project. Flat shoes and clothes you can move in are all the class actually needs, and half of most parties dance in trainers.
VIs an ABBA class a sensible hen party activity for people who hate dancing?
It is one of the hen party ideas we suggest most often for exactly that reason. Unison hides everything: nobody is exposed, nobody is picked on, and the reluctant ones tend to be the loudest by the end. Tell us who is nervous in the enquiry and the choreographer will keep an eye out.
VICan you host us, or does the group need to book a room?
You do not need to book anything. A function room on Hornby Road (FY1 4RD) is hired on your behalf, near the Winter Gardens and walkable from the station and the trams, and it is confirmed with the rest of the booking. If the group has already settled into a hotel with space, we would far rather move the class than move twenty people.