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Cheerleading Hen Party Dance Class Sheffield
Loud, sharp and impossible to do half-heartedly: a cheerleading hen party dance class in Sheffield runs on eight-counts, pom arms and a chant somebody will still be shouting at midnight. Feet stay on the floor throughout. Ninety minutes with your own choreographer costs £175 for the whole group; an hour is £150.
Check your date
Give us a date and we'll build the squad.
Big groups tend to want the same handful of Saturdays, so it pays to ask early. Tell us roughly when and roughly how many, and we'll come back with what's free.
Twenty arms, one countWhere the class happens
Two rooms we hire in Sheffield city centre, or we come to you.
- Bailey Street, S1 4EHHired studio near West Street and the Devonshire Quarter
- Surrey Street, S1 2LGHired room beside the Peace Gardens and the Crucible
- Your own venueHouse, cottage or hotel space across Sheffield and the Peaks — clear the floor and we travel to you
Why cheerleading works
Twenty people hitting the same line looks incredible.
Cheer choreography is engineered for visibility. Every motion finishes in a fixed shape — arms locked at a right angle, fists set, chin up — which means precision comes from stopping in the correct place rather than from years of training. A hen group that has never taken a class can hit a clean line within twenty minutes, and the moment twenty women snap into the same shape on the same count, the room genuinely roars. That readability is why it earns a spot near the top of our hen party dance class list for larger parties.
Our version stays entirely on the floor. There is no stunting, no pyramid and nobody is picked up, which removes the one thing that makes people nervous about the theme and lets us take groups with dodgy knees, non-drinkers, drinkers and complete beginners in the same room. What you get instead is sharp motion work, a marching entrance, a section of dance built to a chart track the group chooses, jumps for anyone who fancies one, and usually a short chant with the bride's name wedged into it. Groups who want the same punch with a music-video finish often compare it against our commercial hen party class, while the ones chasing something grittier look at street dance.
It works particularly well as a morning or early-afternoon booking — it wakes a hungover group up faster than breakfast — in a studio we hire in Sheffield city centre, close enough to walk on to the Peace Gardens or the bars up West Street afterwards. Bring your own poms and kit if you want the full look; we supply the choreographer, the music and the sound system, and never costumes, props or shoes. Brides who enjoy being coached this hard sometimes come back to us months later for first dance lessons with their partner, which is a far quieter hour but built on exactly the same idea: break the thing into counts, drill it until it stops being frightening, then let the room watch.
One price, whole squad
What £175 buys the whole group.
Most Sheffield hen groups take the ninety minutes, because a cheer routine needs drilling to look sharp. Venue hire is the single extra, arranged by us and confirmed before you pay anything.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- Cheerleading 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
- Motion work drilled until the whole line stops on the same beat
- A dance section set to a track your group picks, not one we impose
- The option of a short chant, bride's name included, if you want it
- Jumps offered rather than required — sit any of them out freely
- Formations that put the taller ones where they won't block anyone
- A last full-volume run designed to be filmed from the front
Perfect for
- Parties big enough to look like a genuine squad
- A bride who wants noise, not something delicate
- Groups where half of them played netball and never stopped competing
- A morning slot that has to wake everybody up
- Hen dos where the video matters more than the meal
- Anyone never picked for the school squad who still minds
Hour by hour
How the cheerleading session runs.
The opening stretch is motion work, taught standing still: high V, low V, a clean T, a dagger, each one stopped hard on a count while the coach walks the line straightening elbows. It looks like drilling and feels like a game, and it does the warm-up job at the same time. Once the shapes land together, the counts speed up.
From there we add travel and formation — an entrance, a couple of position changes, a dance passage set to whichever track the group has voted for — and, if you want it, a short chant built round the bride. Jumps are offered to anyone keen; nobody is lifted, and nothing goes above head height. The final stretch is a full-volume run with the bride out front. Exactly where the minutes land gets decided in the room on the day, so treat the above as the usual pattern rather than a fixed running order.
After the last eight-count
What the squad reckoned.
We were worried it would be all handstands and someone ending up in A&E. Nothing left the ground and it was still the loudest hour of the whole weekend.
Booked the cheerleading for a 10am start to force everyone out of bed. It worked. By the second run-through my future mother-in-law was leading the chant.
Sharper than us. Kinder than us.
Three of us can't dance and one of us was six months pregnant, and the coach found a version of every section that worked for all of them. The line-up photo is on our fridge.
Cheerleading questions
What hen groups ask about cheerleading.
1Do you teach stunts, lifts or pyramids?
No. Our cheerleading hen sessions are floor-level from start to finish — nobody is thrown, lifted or stood on. All the impact comes from motion work, formations and volume, which is also why we can take groups with a wide range of ages and fitness in one room.
2Do you provide pom-poms for the cheerleading class?
We don't — poms, kit, bows and anything else themed are yours to bring. Plenty of groups order cheap poms online and split the cost. The routine is built to work with empty hands too, so nothing falls apart if they never turn up.
3How fit do we need to be for cheerleading?
Less fit than you'd think. Motion work is done standing still, jumps are entirely optional, and there are quieter versions of the travelling sections for anyone who wants them. Tell us about knees, backs or pregnancies in the enquiry and we'll plan round them.
4Can we have a chant with the bride's name in it?
Usually, yes, and it tends to be the bit people remember. Chants are put together in the room rather than written in advance, so send us her name and anything the group finds funny about her and the coach will work with it.
5What should we wear to a cheerleading hen party class?
Trainers, and something you can raise your arms in without regretting it. Matching skirts and crop tops look fantastic in the pictures if the group is that way inclined, but they're your purchase — we supply no costumes, shoes or props of any kind.
6Where in Sheffield is the cheerleading class held?
At a studio we hire in Sheffield city centre, a few minutes from the station and easy to reach from most hotels — you get the exact address once the booking is confirmed. The two rooms we hire are Bailey Street (S1 4EH) and Surrey Street (S1 2LG); we confirm which when you book. Groups sharing a house or a Peak District cottage can have us come to them instead, provided there's floor space.