Hen party themes · Irish Dancing
Irish Dancing Hen Party Dance Class Blackpool
An irish dancing hen party dance class in Blackpool, where the first thing you learn is how much noise thirty feet can make on a wooden floor. Arms down, chin up, a line that travels — £185 plus the venue for ninety minutes with everyone in, or £160 plus the venue for an hour.
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Give us a date and we'll get a floor booked.
Numbers, the date and where the party is based is enough to start with. If half of you did it at school and half have never tried, say so — it changes where the choreographer starts.
- £185 plus the venue for the room, never per person
- The Hornby Road function room, or your hotel's if the floor is hard
- A proper reply within 24 hours, not an auto-response
One of our Blackpool hen groupsWhere 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 it belongs on a Blackpool weekend
Nothing else sounds like a room full of it.
This is the loudest thing on our hen party dance class list, and the noise is most of the appeal. Get a dozen people stamping in time on a wooden floor and the room does half the work for you — you feel the beat come up through your feet well before you have learned a single step. The choreographer starts with rhythm rather than footwork: everyone clapping and stamping a pattern back at her until it's in the body, and the feet catch up afterwards. It makes for a hen do dance class where the progress is audible, which is oddly satisfying when nobody has danced before.
The steps themselves are drilled, not improvised. A seven, a set of threes, a bit of a sidestep, then the two of them joined up and travelled across the floor as a line — that is usually the shape of it, though how far the choreographer takes it depends on what she sees the room doing. Arms stay down, which panics people for roughly five minutes and then turns into the best part, because there is nothing to do with your hands except commit. Hard shoes make the sound but they are not required and we don't supply them; trainers on a wooden floor are perfectly good, and anything with a bit of a heel is better still. Wigs, green everything and a sash are yours to bring if you fancy the photos.
As a dance hen party it is genuinely a workout, so most groups take an earlier slot and treat the Promenade afterwards as the reward. If the appeal is a line moving as one but the group wants something they can do in boots with a drink nearby, the Line Dancing class is the gentler relative; if it's footwork and attitude they're after, Flamenco scratches the same itch from another country entirely. Brides who catch the bug occasionally come back to us for a first dance with more rhythm in it than the usual sway.
In the price
What the Irish dancing fee actually covers.
Ninety minutes is what nearly every group picks here, mostly because the legs need the longer warm-up. The only extra is the room, priced before you say yes — and nothing at all when the class comes to you. A Blackpool irish dancing dance hen party that's priced once, for everyone — not a irish dancing dance class hen party that grows with the guest list. A hen party idea that suits a wooden floor and a loud room.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- Irish 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
- An Irish dancing routine pitched at whatever the group can hold
- Rhythm first, footwork second — clapped and stamped before it's danced
- A travelling line across the floor once the steps stick
- A choreographer who'll speed it up or rein it in on the day
- A lead-in out front for the bride if she wants one
- One last go at full pelt with the phones out
Perfect for
- Groups who want to finish knackered and delighted in equal measure
- A bride with Irish family coming to the wedding
- Hens who'd sooner learn a skill than muck about
- Anyone who has watched Riverdance and quietly wondered
- A morning slot before a long afternoon out
- Parties who like the idea of making an enormous racket
The usual shape of it
Ninety minutes, feet first.
It opens on ankles and calves, because this theme asks more of them than most, then goes straight into rhythm work — the whole room stamping a pattern back at the choreographer until it's steady. The first proper step goes in slowly, on the spot, both sides, and gets repeated many more times than feels necessary until it stops needing to be counted. Only after that does anything travel anywhere.
The back half joins the steps into a short sequence and puts the group into a line, which is the moment it starts sounding like the thing you booked. The bride usually gets a lead-in, or a break in the middle if she wants the room watching. Ninety minutes leaves time for two full runs with a breather in between, plus filming the better one. Take that as the usual pattern rather than a fixed running order — how the time splits is worked out with your group in the room.
Afterwards
Verdicts, once everybody had sat down.
Fourteen of us and by the end you could hear us out in the corridor. My calves have never forgiven me and I would do it again tomorrow.
None of us had the first clue. She had us travelling across the floor as a line inside the first hour.
Booked it for a bride whose nan is from Galway. The nan cried, then joined in.
Loudest thing we did all weekend.
Before you book
Irish dancing, the practical bits.
IDo we need hard shoes for the Irish dancing hen class?
There isn't, and nothing is ours to lend. A few pairs of hard shoes in the room make it sound wonderful, but trainers are absolutely fine, and a small hard heel beats anything soft. Bare feet we'd rather you avoided.
IIIs Irish dancing too hard for a hen party with no dancers in it?
It's drilled rather than complicated, which suits total beginners better than people expect. You'll learn two or three steps properly instead of twelve badly, and the tempo is set to whatever the room can hold.
IIIHow fit do we need to be for an Irish dancing hen party?
Fitter than for most themes, honestly — this is the one where everyone is pink by the end. That said, the whole thing can be taken at half speed, and there's no shame in sitting a run out; plenty of groups have somebody doing exactly that with a phone in hand.
IVCan the routine be inspired by Riverdance?
That's what most groups picture and it's the flavour we aim for, though we aren't affiliated with any show. Which tunes carry it is worked out with you rather than fixed weeks in advance.
VCan mums and grandmas keep up with Irish dancing?
Yes, with one caveat: it's a hen party activity with a bit of impact in it, so anyone with dodgy knees should mention it in the enquiry. The choreographer can give them a hands-and-rhythm version that keeps them in the room and in the photographs.
VIWhere's the floor for the Irish dancing session?
Two options, really. There is the function room we hire on Hornby Road (FY1 4RD), a few minutes from the Winter Gardens with the station and the Promenade both walkable; or your own place along the front, provided the floor is hard rather than deep carpet, because carpet swallows the sound this theme is built on.