Greatest Showman Hen Party Dance Class Brighton
Anthems are the point. A Greatest Showman hen party dance class in Brighton puts the entire group on the front row — stomping, clapping, arms thrown wide on the chorus — because this material was written for a company, not for a soloist and eleven people behind her. Your instructor invents the choreography for your particular party rather than dusting off a stock version, and the price for all of you together is £175 plus the venue.
Greatest Showman · everybody centre stage
Secure the date.
Sort the top hats never.
Send a date and a rough number and the hard part is finished. Everything theatrical — ringmaster coats, sequins, whether anyone is doing a big entrance — can be settled the night before, or ignored entirely. Somebody replies within the day with the room, whether we're free and the one figure the whole party splits between them.
- £175 plus the venue buys ninety minutes; £150 plus the venue buys sixty
- The fee is fixed at that, from a party of nine to a party of thirty
- Four rooms we hire, seafront to Hove, or your hen house anywhere in Sussex
The lap of honourFour spaces we hire in the city — or your rented house.
- Madeira Drive, BN2 1ENHired seafront room — the pier on your doorstep
- North Road, BN1 1YDHired North Laine room, close to the station and the Lanes
- Mermaid Walk, BN2 5WA · Montpelier Road, BN1 3ATHired rooms at the Marina and the Hove end
- Your hen house or hotelAnywhere in Sussex with floor space — Hove, Worthing, Lewes, the coast
A theme with no back row.
Written for a company, which is what a hen party is
The reason this soundtrack works so absurdly well in a room of eighteen women is that every number in it is already an ensemble number. Nobody is decoration. The vocabulary is stomps, claps, a low travelling step and enormous open arms — big, legible movement designed to be done by a crowd, in unison, at volume. Groups who worry that half their party will end up hidden behind the confident ones tend to relax within the first ten minutes, because there is genuinely nowhere to hide and nothing to hide from.
The instructor writes it, then rewrites it live
There is no company version of this we hand out. Whoever teaches you has choreographed her own, and she will trim, extend or reorder it depending on how the party is coping, how many of you there are and how much floor the room gives her. Some groups end up with a slow, deliberate anthem finish; others get something faster with two halves answering one another. None of that is decided before she has met you, which is the honest reason we won't print a running order.
Sequins, brides and what people book next
A featured moment for the bride is offered every time and declined about as often as it's taken — plenty of brides prefer to be one of eighteen. If the group turns out to like a big score, Musicals covers the whole West End rather than one film, and Wicked goes greener and more dramatic; the full range lives on the Brighton hen party themes page. Some hens also discover they'd quite like this to be a habit, and carry on at our weekly dance classes in Brighton.
One £175-plus-venue fee. Here's its anatomy.
In the priceWhat's included
- Professional dance instructor
- A Greatest Showman-flavoured routine made for your group
- All music and sound equipment
- Warm-up and cool-down
- Beginner-friendly teaching throughout
- Photo and video opportunities
- Help choosing theme and music
- Group coordination beforehand
- A featured moment for the bride, if she wants one
What you'll experience
- Stomp-and-clap rhythms that fill a room without any skill required
- Wide, legible arm shapes built to be done by a crowd at once
- Film-score anthems as flavour, with track choice down to your teacher
- Unison work where the whole party lands the same beat together
- Possible additions: a ringmaster figure, a staggered entrance, a held finish
- Time at the end to run it properly for the cameras, if you want that
Perfect for
- Big parties where nobody should end up stuck at the back
- Brides who cry at the second chorus and aren't ashamed of it
- Anyone hunting a hen party idea the aunties will genuinely join in with
- Groups combining this with dinner somewhere near the Lanes
- Hens who like singing more than they like dancing
- Weekends where the weather has ruined the beach plan
Ninety anthem-sized minutes,
loosely sketched.
Things open gently — shoulders, ankles, a bit of rhythm work so the claps land together — and then the material arrives in short sections that get stacked one on top of another. Because the shapes are large and repetitive, most parties are recognisably dancing by the halfway mark. The last stretch is usually a full run at volume with somebody filming. Take all of that as the general shape rather than a schedule, because each instructor paces her own class and will rearrange it the moment your room asks her to.
Notes from the ensemble.
Click a name to readUna+
Twenty-one of us including two grandmothers and a fourteen-year-old cousin, which I'd been dreading. Our teacher built something where all three ages were doing the same thing at the same time and looking equally good doing it. The bride has watched the video roughly ninety times.
Verity+
Loud, sincere, slightly emotional. Exactly what we'd hoped for.
Winnie+
Twenty-six people and one price was the reason I picked it, honestly — everywhere else wanted a number per person and my spreadsheet was getting ugly. The class itself turned out to be the best hour of the weekend.
Zosia+
We did it in the house we'd rented, curtains open, neighbours presumably delighted. Fifteen women stamping in time on a wooden floor is a sound I'd recommend to anyone.
Greatest Showman, answered.
The things people email about before booking this hen do dance class.
Is there any acrobatics or circus skill involved?+
None whatsoever — this is a dance class with a circus soundtrack, not a trapeze lesson. Everything happens on two feet on the floor, and no experience is necessary, which is rather the point of choosing a theme built on stomps, claps and big open arms.
Are we dancing to the anthems off the film soundtrack?+
The obvious anthems from the film and its wider family, used as flavour rather than a published setlist. Your instructor picks the tracks because she wrote the routine to them, so the choice belongs to her — although a request in the message box usually finds its way in.
Do you supply top hats, tailcoats or anything sparkly?+
We don't. No costumes, hats, canes, shoes or accessories come from us, so anything theatrical arrives in your own bags. A whole party in black with one red jacket on the bride photographs better than most bought-in outfits anyway.
Our group ranges from nineteen to seventy. Will that work?+
This is one of the two or three themes we suggest first for exactly that spread. The steps are broad rather than fast, everyone learns the same thing, and your teacher pitches the pace at whoever is finding it hardest instead of whoever is showing off.
Does the bride have to be the ringmaster?+
Only if she likes the sound of it. A featured entrance or a solo bar or two is always available and always optional, and she can change her mind an hour into the class. Flag her preference on the form and the session gets shaped around it.
Thirty of us are coming. Is it still one number?+
Nothing at all. Nine of you or thirty of you, it's £175 plus the venue for the ninety-minute workshop and £150 plus the venue for the hour — one invoice, one organiser, no per-head arithmetic. Larger parties simply get matched to a larger hired room.
Where do you run this hen party activity?+
In one of four rooms we hire around Brighton: Madeira Drive on the seafront, North Road in North Laine near the station, Mermaid Walk at the Marina and Montpelier Road at the Hove end. We'll match one to your numbers and confirm it with the booking, or bring the whole dance hen party out to your weekend base anywhere in Sussex.