Big hair, bigger choruses · the 80s
80s Hen Party
Dance Class
Plymouth.
Power ballads, neon energy and choruses everybody already knows by heart — an 80s routine your group picks up from scratch with a private choreographer in Plymouth city centre. £160 covers the entire party for an hour, £185 for ninety minutes, with no per-head charge in sight.
If your group can shout along to a power ballad, they can dance to one — the 80s does half the teaching for us.
All killer choruses · zero experience needed · one huge finaleCheck your date
Turn the hen do
up to eleven.
Weekend dates disappear quickest — drop yours in the form and we'll confirm the slot, book the room and start on the playlist.
- £160 for the entire group, one flat rate — no per-head sums
- A chorus-by-chorus 80s routine built around the bride
- An answer lands inside 24 hours, often much sooner
Plymouth Dance Centre
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Any group size — one flat rate.
No per-person maths.
Thank you!
Why the 80s works
The decade that
never left.
Ask a room full of hens to name a song absolutely everyone can dance to, and somebody lands on the 80s within seconds. That is the entire trick of this theme, and the reason it stays a fixture among our hen party dance classes in Plymouth: the mums know every word, the bridesmaids grew up on the revival playlists, and nobody has to be persuaded to love a key change. Your choreographer takes tracks the group already adores and shapes them into a routine that starts working on the very first walkthrough — no dance history required, no cool-kid barrier to entry, just a decade doing what it has always done best.
The moves are gloriously of their era — grapevines, box steps, shoulder rolls, an air-grab on the big note — stitched together so a complete beginner keeps pace while the show-offs go full music video. Think Whitney, Madonna, Wham! and Cyndi Lauper, layered verse by verse towards a finale that begs to be filmed. If your crowd wants the same decade with extra cinema, our Flash Dance theme leans hard into the leg-warmer legend, and Thriller drags the era somewhere brilliantly spookier — but the straight-up 80s class stays the broadest crowd-pleaser of the three.
It suits groups that span the generations, and it is a gift for a hen do that starts in the afternoon: learn the routine at the studio, then carry the momentum down to the Barbican for the evening with the chorus still rattling around everyone's head. More than one bride has enjoyed it enough to come back for wedding first dance lessons before the big day itself — the 80s has a strange way of making people forget they were ever nervous about dancing in front of anyone.
What £160 buys
All of it,
in writing.
The flat rate covers everything listed below; venue hire is the single extra, and we arrange the room and confirm it alongside your booking.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- 80s 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
- A chart-run of 80s anthems from Whitney to Wham!
- Grapevines and box steps that click inside one chorus
- Shoulder rolls and air-grab drama on the key change
- A verse-by-verse build so nobody trails behind
- The bride centre stage for the last chorus
- A neon-bright finale caught on every phone in the room
Perfect for
- Hen dos where the mums and aunties are dancing too
- Groups who'd rather belt a chorus than count a beat
- The friend who says she can't dance yet knows every word
- Parties planning a neon or leg-warmer dress code
- An afternoon slot that sets up the whole evening
- Brides secretly convinced they were born too late
Hour by hour
How the 80s
hour runs.
The first ten minutes are a warm-up disguised as a singalong: shoulders loosen, the giggling starts, and a travelling grapevine gets everybody moving in the same direction. Then the routine arrives verse by verse — a box step here, a big point on the chorus there — with each chunk repeated until it sits comfortably before the next one lands on top.
The closing stretch is the payoff: full routine, full volume, bride planted in the middle for the final chorus. Take the ninety-minute option and there is room to add a second track, sharpen the styling and run the ending a few extra times so every phone in the room gets the take it wants.
Straight from the hens
Reviews with the
volume up.
"We had ages 24 to 63 in the room and the 80s routine worked for every single one of us. My aunt still busts out the shoulder rolls at parties."
"Booked the 80s class for my sister, who is obsessed with the decade. She welled up at the song choice, then absolutely nailed the routine."
"Air grabs. Grapevines. Thirteen women screaming an 80s key change. Book it."
"Our teacher somehow marched seventeen chaotic women through a whole 80s number in an hour, and the video from the final run-through is genuinely brilliant."
80s specifics
Sensible answers,
80s questions.
What groups tend to check before booking the 80s theme in Plymouth. If yours is missing, stick it in the enquiry form and ask away.
01What will the 80s routine be danced to?
Anything with a chorus the whole room can shout — Whitney, Madonna, Wham!, Bon Jovi and Cyndi Lauper are the regulars. Tell us the bride's favourite when you enquire and we'll usually build the routine around that exact track.
02Do we need to dress up in 80s gear?
Only if you fancy it — plenty of groups go all-in on neon, leg warmers and crimped hair, and it looks fantastic on camera. Outfits are yours to bring; the only genuine requirement is shoes you can move in for an hour.
03Is the routine doable for complete non-dancers?
Completely. The steps are era-authentic but beginner-built — grapevines, points and shoulder rolls layered up slowly, with every section repeated until it sticks. Knowing the songs already does half the work for you.
04How does the bride get singled out during the 80s session?
That's the plan from the first count. We usually put her centre stage for the final chorus — a solo point, the group fanning out behind her, whatever suits her appetite for attention. Just tell us where her limelight tolerance sits.
05Is it fine to record the 80s class?
Film away — that's exactly what the closing performance is for. We set the group so the bride sits dead centre, repeat it as many times as the hour allows, and you leave with footage the group chat will replay for months.
06Can the 80s class come to our accommodation instead?
In a studio we hire in Plymouth city centre — walkable from most hen accommodation, with the exact address confirmed once you book. Got a big enough space where you're staying? We're equally happy to bring the speaker and run the whole thing there.