Eleven of us took on the Spice Girls routine in a Northern Quarter studio, then poured straight out into Spinningfields. The instructor had us in stitches, and that last clip is still the group chat's pinned post.
Jessica A. Maid of honour, ManchesterDance Classes & Hen Parties in Manchester
Weekly classes in twenty styles, themed hen parties off a 38-plus menu, and first-dance choreography cut to fit your song — all led by professional Manchester dancers who spend their weeks on tour, on telly and out on the touring-theatre circuit.
38+Hen Party Themes
from £140 + venueFlat Rate, Any Group Size
20Dance Class Styles
from £8Per Weekly Class
Pick a Hen Party Theme. We Build the Routine.
A Manchester hen party dance class kicks off the second you settle on a theme — Spice Girls, Beyoncé, the 90s or any of the other 38-plus going — and wraps up with the whole crew nailing a routine you all picked up together in a single afternoon.
A professional choreographer walks you through every move in a private Northern Quarter or city-centre studio, or brings the entire session to your hotel or Airbnb somewhere across Greater Manchester. Whatever the final headcount, a single flat fee covers the lot.
Learn it over the afternoon, take it out to Spinningfields or Canal Street after dark, then bring it back for an encore at the reception a few months on — that, done right, is a Manchester hen do.
One Flat Price. No Per-Head Maths.
Almost every rival hen outfit in Manchester still charges by the head, so the bill lurches about each time a name goes on or comes off the list. Our way is simpler: one flat sum for the entire group, no matter how many make it out on the day.
One-hour party Warm-up, full routine, filmed finale
£140 + venueNinety-minute party More polish, more choruses, more laughing
£165 + venueBottle of bubbly Cold and waiting when you arrive
+£10Same price for 6 hens or 30 — nobody pays more when plans change.
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Choose your theme
Scroll the full run of 38-plus themes and settle on the one that's unmistakably her. Stuck between a couple? Your choreographer will happily weld them into one.
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Pick studio or come-to-you
Grab a private studio in the Northern Quarter or Ancoats with the bars a short stroll off, or send the choreographer out to wherever the group's holed up, anywhere in Greater Manchester.
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Learn the routine together
The choreography lands in bite-size, watch-and-copy pieces built for absolute beginners — nobody's put on the spot, and nobody ends up propping up the wall.
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Perform it — maybe twice
We film that final run and it's in the group chat before the Ubers pull up — and no end of these routines make a return at the wedding itself.
Dance Classes in Manchester
Every week we run twenty styles out of Northern Quarter, city-centre and Salford studios, £8 a class on a block, each one fronted by a working professional dancer. Evening slots kick off late enough to make straight after a shift, and kids' classes run all over Greater Manchester.
Street Dance
Breaking, popping, locking and house grooves from dancers steeped in Manchester's guitar-band swagger — comfortably our fullest room, with children's sessions right across the city.
Salsa
Cuban flavour, partners rotating round the floor, and an easy route into Manchester's Latin social scene.
Ballet
Classic barre-to-centre technique in adult classes that truly welcome the never-danced — leggings fine, a leotard optional.
K-Pop
Point choreography and crisp formations lifted straight off the comebacks — the quickest riser on our books.
Ballroom
Waltz, foxtrot and quickstep danced in a proper hold — arrive as a couple or on your own, partners swap round all evening.
Contemporary
Release work, floor sequences and improvised movement — alongside jazz, tap, flamenco, heels, Bollywood and plenty besides. Twenty in all; the whole lineup sits on the classes page.
Wedding Dance Lessons in Manchester
Your first dance is the reception's most-filmed minute and a half, and it deserves more than an anxious shuffle. Our choreographers build you a private routine around your track — from understated and classy to an out-and-out showstopper — at a studio in town or your own venue.
Most pairs land on four to six lessons across the run-up, though a single two-hour Last Minute session has salvaged plenty of fortnight-to-go emergencies. Packages open at £75, and song edits and filmed rehearsals get folded in as you move up.
Wedding Dance Details
Questions, Answered
The questions Mancunians usually raise before they book — where we run, what a class comes to, whether a first-timer will cope and how far ahead to plan. Anything we've not touched on, the enquiry forms get to us inside a working day.
Whereabouts in Manchester do the classes and hen parties run?
Our partner studios sit in the Northern Quarter, around the city centre near Piccadilly and Deansgate, out in Ancoats and over at Salford Quays, with kids' classes dotted right across Greater Manchester — you'll have the exact address as soon as it's booked. Booking a hen do or a private one-off instead? The choreographer grabs the kit and heads to your hotel, Airbnb or hired room, anywhere from Stockport to Salford.
Is the hen party genuinely one flat price whatever the turnout?
Completely. One fixed charge lands on the whole group — reckon on £140 plus the room for sixty minutes or £165 plus the room for ninety — and the figure doesn't budge whether there's a dozen of you or a good few more. So fifteen hens works out at £140 between you rather than £25 apiece, and anyone pulling out at the eleventh hour won't push the price up.
What do the weekly classes work out at in Manchester?
Every class is a flat £8, whether you drop in for one or book a four-week block, across any of the styles. There's no contract at all, so you could spend one month learning Bollywood and the next on salsa with nobody charging you a penny to switch lanes.
Can we reach you on the tram?
No problem — nearly every partner studio sits a few minutes from a Metrolink stop, and because it's Britain's biggest tram network you can glide in from Altrincham, Bury, Eccles or the airport without ever tangling with city-centre traffic. Would sooner we came to you? We'll travel out across the whole of Greater Manchester instead.
So who's actually taking the class?
Whoever's at the front is a professional dancer or choreographer living in and around Manchester — the type who fill their weeks touring, filming for the telly out at MediaCity and working the Palace and Opera House stages, then teach around it. Any class with children in it is run by someone fully DBS-checked.
How much notice do you need from us?
A weekly class you can normally drop into the very week you get in touch. Hen weekends, though, are the ones to lock in early — groups pour into Manchester from all over the North West and the summer Saturdays are gone first — so leave yourself three to five months. Couples building a first dance tend to start around two or three months before the day.
What Our Dancers Say
Hen parties, first dances and weekly classes, all over Greater Manchester.
I gave the after-work salsa a go near Deansgate on a whim and never looked back — most weeks now you'll find me at the socials. Because partners keep swapping all night, you end up dancing with half of Manchester within a few weeks.
Kieran B. Weekly student, ManchesterFive lessons over in Chorlton turned our nervous swaying into a real routine, dip and all. Booking that last practice on the very floor we'd marry on was the smartest move we made — by the wedding itself the nerves had gone.
Nadia & Ben Newlyweds, ManchesterFind Us in Manchester
Studios in the Northern Quarter, around the city centre and over at Salford Quays, children's classes all over Greater Manchester, and choreographers glad to head out to Stockport, Oldham or Trafford — the precise address arrives once you've booked.
On the Tram
Nearly every partner studio is a couple of minutes from a Metrolink stop, so evening classes are easy to reach off the tram from any line — and timed to catch you after work.
Coming Into Town
Groups roll in by train to Piccadilly or Victoria, or hop the Metrolink from the suburbs — pick a studio near your platform and the rest of the day falls into place.
Honestly, Don't Drive
City-centre parking is pricey and the traffic's a slog, so the tram or train is the smart shout for a night out. Set on driving? Say so and we'll point you at venues with parking to hand.
We Travel Too
Staying in a hotel, an Airbnb or a hired room? The choreographer packs the kit and the playlist and comes to you, anywhere from Salford and Stockport to Oldham and Trafford.
Manchester, Let's Dance
Whether it's a hen theme, a regular class or a song for your first dance pulling you in, the friendliest, best-priced dance floor in Manchester is only ever one enquiry away.
38+ themes
Hen Party Dance Classes
A fixed £140-and-up rate that ignores the headcount — book a studio or have us come to you.
Browse Themes 20 stylesWeekly Dance Classes
From £8 a class at our Northern Quarter and city-centre studios — grown-ups and kids alike, and beginners are the whole point.
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