80s Hen Party Dance Class Portsmouth
80s Hen Party Dance Class in Portsmouth
80s Hen Do — Portsmouth
My Dance Hen Party Portsmouth
Venues
Southsea Studio
Albert Road arts quarter — confirmed on booking
City Centre Studio
Guildhall / University Quarter — confirmed on booking
Your Venue
Hotels & Airbnbs — we come to you across Portsmouth & south-east Hampshire
About This 80s Hen Party Dance Class in Portsmouth
Southsea Common turns into a stage each summer for Victorious Festival, and the seafront pulled Portsmouth out for a big open-air singalong long before that. An 80s dance hen party Portsmouth brides book borrows the same come-as-you-are swagger — a fistful of shoulder-pad anthems shaped into one struttable routine you pick up in short takes.
Rusty is the norm in the room, never a problem. Each move gets pulled apart, dropped to half speed and looped, so Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Rio, Karma Chameleon and Never Gonna Give You Up sit as easily on a first-timer as on the group's one secret mover. The hen who swore she would only watch tends to commandeer the front by the second chorus.
The group pays once, not by the head — £140 for sixty minutes, £165 for ninety — and the sole add-on is a room, if you would rather we booked one. We film the last run so it survives the weekend, then an 80s dance hen do Portsmouth spills the two minutes to Guildhall Walk, where the late bars carry the rest of the night.
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What's Included in Your 80s Hen Party
- A professional choreographer leading the hour from the first stretch to the last freeze-frame
- A set list of eighties anthems chosen around the bride's own guilty pleasures, not a fixed template
- Ten minutes of warm-up at the start and a proper stretch to close, all within the time you paid for
- Speaker, leads and the full neon-era playlist carried in and set up by us — you supply the outfits
- A patient, beginner-first pace — we assume nobody has rehearsed a thing since their own wedding disco
- Photo breaks called while the leg-warmers and blusher are still at their brightest
- A single flat price that holds firm whether ten hens turn up or thirty
- A Southsea or city-centre studio held for you, or the whole class driven out across Portsea Island and south-east Hampshire
- The finished routine filmed and shared to the group before you have swapped your trainers for heels
What You'll Experience at Our 80s Dance Class
- Big hair-flick energy and the pointed, wrist-snapping arms that read as pure eighties on camera
- Group shapes that turn a loose huddle of mates into a tidy synth-pop line-up
- Steps drip-fed slowly enough that the shakiest dancer never gets left behind mid-song
- A big synchronised finish with the clout to earn an encore at the actual wedding
- A licence to belt every chorus a semitone wrong and love it
- Roughly a hundred chances for a wildly over-committed lip-sync
Perfect For Your Portsmouth Hen Do
- Brides who would take a Wham! stomper over anything in this week's charts
- Groups pairing the afternoon with a big night on Guildhall Walk
- Committed dressers who ordered the leg-warmers and fingerless gloves a fortnight ago
- Mixed-age rooms where the bride's mum is word-perfect and slightly smug about it
- Weekends based on Hayling Island or over in Portchester who would rather we came to them
- Hens after a single sunlit, over-lit photo to open the reception montage
What Our Hens Say
80s hen parties we have taught across Portsmouth.
"Fifteen of us in head-to-toe neon in a studio just off Guildhall Walk, then straight out to the bars. The Karma Chameleon bit is the only thing anyone has posted since."
— Steph R. ★★★★★"We had her bring it to our Airbnb near the seafront — speaker under one arm, no fuss. Sceptical lot at half two, and by four the bride's mum had claimed the front and would not give it back."
— Donna H. ★★★★★"Genuinely cannot dance and it did not matter — the whole row carried me. We have watched the Rio section back more times than I will admit."
— Jade M. ★★★★★"Booked it half-expecting a gimmick and it turned into the story of the weekend. My phone is now ninety per cent blurry footage of us doing the arm moves."
— Kelly O. ★★★★★80s Hen Party FAQ
Everything you need to know about our 80s hen party dance class in Portsmouth.
What 80s songs will we dance to at the hen party in Portsmouth? +
The usual four to build on are Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Rio, Karma Chameleon and Never Gonna Give You Up, though the set bends to the room. If the bride has one track she will not skip, flag it when you get in touch and we thread it through the choreography.
Is the 80s class priced per person or for the whole group? +
You are quoted one flat figure for the party rather than a price per head — £140 for an hour or £165 for ninety minutes, plus a studio room only if you want us to book one. Because nobody is counted at the door, a bigger group only spreads the cost thinner.
How do we get to the class by train? +
Portsmouth & Southsea station drops you nearest the city-centre and Guildhall studios; Portsmouth Harbour is the stop for Gunwharf, and Fratton suits eastern Southsea. There is no tram, so it is a short walk or a quick taxi between areas — we send the exact room and the easiest route once you book.
Do we organise the neon outfits ourselves? +
Costumes are the group's job and honestly the best bit — blusher stripes, oversized shades, a headband each and enough neon to be seen from the Common. Everything else is on us. If fancy dress is not your thing, wear something you can move in and you will fit right in.
Can you come to us across Portsea Island? +
Gladly. We pack the class into the car — speaker and all — and bring it to your hotel, Airbnb or hired hall anywhere on Portsea Island, out to Cosham, Portchester, Havant or over the bridge to Hayling Island. Give us a cleared floor and a socket and you are set.
Half of us have not danced since our own weddings — will we keep up? +
That is the standard confession, and it changes nothing. Everything is broken into little copy-me chunks, the tricky flourishes are there only for whoever wants them, and the group dances in lines so a phone films one neat row rather than any single wobble. By the last run you will look far more rehearsed than you felt.