Spice Girls Hen Party Dance Class Cheltenham
Five personas, one bride, zero experience needed: ninety minutes that turn your group chat into a girl group — £190, venue on top, one written quote, or £165 plus venue for a sixty-minute single.
Five personas, already assigned
The genius of a Spice Girls dance hen party is that the line-up sorts itself. Within minutes of the theme being announced, the group chat has assigned every persona, ordered the leopard print and started a polite feud over Posh — and that is before a single step has been taught.
In the hall, the teacher sorts the camps, hands out signature moves and shapes a routine built around the room — mixed ages, mixed confidence, entirely mixed footwear. No dance experience is expected of anyone; the songs carry everybody born since about 1975. Ninety minutes lets the camps stretch out and film the lot in style; sixty still gets the routine taught properly.
It is also the hen party activity with the best singalong-to-effort ratio going: four famous moves take a group a very long way. Of all the hen party ideas that get voted on, this is the one that wins the poll twice — once when it is chosen, again when the video lands.
From group chat to girl group
Warm-up with attitude
A bouncy start set to the opening bars — posing actively encouraged.
Parts are shared
Each camp learns its signature moves; nobody dances alone, everybody gets a bit.
It snaps together
Camps merge, the chorus lands, the bride floats to the front as a sixth member.
Film it, own it
One last full run for the phones and a group photo in formation.
One quote, five-part harmony
The teachera pro with the whole back catalogue ready and a persona plan for any size of party
includedOne figure, all of you£190 for ninety minutes or £165 for sixty, with the venue’s cost on top — five hens or twenty-five, same fee
one feeThe hall, ours to sortTommy Taylors Lane booked by us and billed inside the same written quote
handledThe keepsakefinal routine filmed on your phones and a group photo that will resurface at the wedding
yoursFive camps means five sets of signature moves, which is why ninety is our pick. Each persona gets time to own its bit before the camps merge for the chorus, and the bride has room to drift to the front as the sixth member without anyone losing their place in the formation photo.
Outside the quote, by design: platforms, leopard print and flag dresses. All bring-your-own, all optional, all excellent.
Our hall or yours — you choose
Tommy Taylors Lane, GL50 4RN
One of the venues we offer is the hall we hire on Tommy Taylors Lane, on the Pittville side of Cheltenham. It has a proper dance floor, room for a big group to spread out, parking nearby and the town-centre bars a short taxi away. We book it for your slot, and its hire goes onto your written quote as the venue cost.
Already got somewhere? We’ll come to you
A hotel function room, a hired house with a big lounge, a village hall, a marquee with a solid floor — if there’s space for everyone to move and a socket for the speaker, the teacher travels to you anywhere around Cheltenham. The class fee stays the same flat figure, and whatever your venue charges stays between you and them.
Spice Girls routines put five characters up front, so a room with a clear front end works best.
Not sure which option suits? Tell us where the group is staying when you enquire and we’ll suggest the easier one.
Five singles to argue about first
Wannabethe opening seconds alone can organise a room
the obvious oneStopfour moves, instantly recognisable — the hen-party classic
four movesSpice Up Your Lifeglorious chaos with a chant for a chorus
the chantSay You’ll Be Thereslinkier and smoother; a gift to formations
slow burnWho Do You Think You Areattitude from the first bar — made for a strut-off
the strut-offYou are not limited to these — or even to the Spice Girls. Settle on any five songs, rank them, and send the top five in order of preference once the class is booked; the teacher then choreographs to one of them before you arrive. If the group chat never agrees on a list, the teacher picks a Spice single themselves.
The Saturday, seasoned accordingly
Run it mid-afternoon: lunch in Montpellier, the class at three, then back to base to reassemble the outfits properly for the evening. If your weekend clashes with a racecourse fixture, book everything early — hen parties and racegoers compete for the same taxis, tables and halls. Groups arrive from Gloucester, Cirencester and Evesham without drama, and the hall itself is an easy taxi from the station.
Flat shoes for learning, platforms for photographs only, and water for everyone. A hen do dance class with this much shouting in it counts as cardio; dress accordingly.
Verdicts from the five camps
Five personas, sixteen hens, zero arguments — the teacher split the parts before we could fall out and gave the bride the big line.
We had lunch on the Promenade, danced at three and were quoting the routine at each other in the taxi queue by ten.
As the one holding the budget: one figure, in writing, covering class and hall. Nothing crept in afterwards. Blessed relief.
Half of us were born after the band split and it made no difference whatsoever — the songs are apparently pre-installed.
What you really really want to know
How do five Spices split across sixteen hens? +
Painlessly — the teacher groups you into camps, so every Spice arrives several hens strong. Nobody performs alone, everybody gets a signature move, and the bride can float above the whole system as a sixth member entirely of her own invention.
Is the Stop routine as easy as it looks? +
It is exactly as easy as it looks, which is the genius of it — four moves, endlessly repeatable, instantly recognisable. If that is the one you want, put Stop at the head of the top five you send us after booking, in order of preference, and the teacher can choreograph to it ahead of the class.
Do we have to source our own nineties outfits? +
Yes — platforms, leopard print, flag dresses: all gloriously welcome, all the group’s own responsibility. Costume is optional full stop; half the parties we see commit completely, the other half dance in trainers.
Where in town does the girl-power class happen? +
The hall we hire sits on Tommy Taylors Lane (GL50 4RN), a short hop from the centre — or the teacher brings the whole class to your own venue. The written quote covers either arrangement, venue cost included.
Will the younger hens even know the songs? +
They will, mysteriously, know every word — the back catalogue seems to pass down the generations like a surname. The routine is pitched to the room, not to the era, so nobody needs the original singles on vinyl. The age range at the last one we taught ran from nineteen to sixty-eight.
What if two of us both want Posh? +
Then two of you are Posh, and frankly the routine is stronger for it. Personas are a starting point, not a rationing system — the teacher shapes the parts around whoever is in the hall rather than forcing anyone into a wig they resent.