Fame · one of 38 Plymouth hen themes
Fame Hen Party
Dance Class
Plymouth.
Leg warmers, high kicks and a full-throttle 80s routine in the spirit of Fame, taught from the first count by a private choreographer in Plymouth city centre. It's £160 flat for the whole party for an hour, £185 for ninety minutes — whether you're six hens or twenty-six.
Remember the name: by the end of the hour your group will be kicking, clapping and shouting the chorus back at the speaker.
Pure 80s · sweatband optional · loud finishGrab the slot
Give the hen do
its Fame moment.
Weekend afternoons book up early — fire over the form and we'll confirm your date, line up the studio and hold the slot.
- £160 flat for your whole party — no per-head pricing, ever
- An 80s Fame-style routine anyone can follow, bride out front
- A human reply inside 24 hours — often within the hour
Plymouth Dance Centre
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Any group size — one flat rate.
No per-person maths.
Thank you!
Why Fame works
Leg warmers on,
inhibitions off.
Fame is the theme people book when they want the hen do to feel like a rehearsal room at the New York School of Performing Arts, circa 1982 — sweatbands, leotards over tights, a bit of attitude and a lot of noise. Of all the hen party dance classes we run in Plymouth, it's the one with the widest grin on it. The 80s jazz style is bold and stretchy rather than fiddly: big arm lines, jazz hands with commitment, a run-and-leap you can scale up or down depending on who's doing it, and the kind of chorus that has a whole studio bellowing "I'm gonna live forever" whether they meant to or not.
Your choreographer builds a routine inspired by the film and the TV series' songbook — the title track, naturally, with room for a Hot Lunch-style breakout if your group has the stamina. Everything is taught from nothing, layered step by step, and danced together so nobody is left counting on the sidelines. Groups who like the leg-warmer look but fancy a steelworker's welding torch and a bucket of water on the storyline should look at our Flashdance theme; if you'd rather sweep across the whole decade, the 80s hen party class mixes Fame in with everything else the era gave us.
It suits a bride who grew up on stage-school dreams — or one who has a full drama-club past she's been trying to hide from her fiancé. Plymouth is a good place for it too: a studio near the city centre, the Hoe ten minutes away for the leg-warmer photos with the Sound behind you, and the bars round the Barbican for after. More than one group has returned for our weekly dance classes in Plymouth once they discovered how much they liked leaping about. Bring your own 80s gear — we don't supply costumes, but the more fluorescent the better.
No small print
One price,
nine promises.
Every line in the first column is inside the £160 or £185. The studio hire sits on top, and we sort that for you before confirming.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- Fame 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
- An 80s jazz warm-up with the stretches to match
- High kicks scaled to whoever's kicking
- The run-and-leap, done as a group wave
- Jazz hands, hip pops and a big arm chorus
- A stage-school "audition line" with the bride at the front
- A full-song finale, filmed, sweatbands and all
Perfect for
- Stage-school alumni and the friends who put up with them
- A bride who owns leg warmers unironically
- Groups after a proper workout as well as a laugh
- Mums and aunties who were there for the original
- An 80s-themed weekend that needs its centrepiece
- Anyone who's ever leapt off a kerb pretending to be Coco
Minute by minute
How the Fame
hour plays out.
The first ten minutes are a proper 80s jazz warm-up — stretches at an imaginary barre, isolations, a few kicks to see who's flexible and who's lying. Then the routine arrives in bite-sized phrases: the opening arm line, the travelling step, the kick sequence, the leap. Each piece gets drilled to the track before the next one is added, so nobody is holding the whole thing in their head at once.
The back end of the hour is all run-throughs, louder each time, with the bride pulled to the front for her audition moment while the rest of the group forms the chorus line behind her. Go for ninety minutes and your choreographer adds a second section — usually a Hot Lunch-style breakout — and leaves time to film the finished routine properly.
Word from the studio
Fame hens,
afterwards.
"We turned up in matching leg warmers thinking it would be a bit of a giggle and left having learned an actual Fame routine. The kick line at the end nearly took the choreographer out."
"My mum was a Fame obsessive in 1983 and she was front row, sweatband on, word perfect. The bride couldn't get near her."
"Ninety minutes was the right call — we got the whole song plus the extra bit and the video is genuinely good. Legs hurt for two days."
"Fame! We did, in fact, live forever."
Fame specifics
Quick answers,
Fame edition.
What groups tend to ask before booking a Fame hen party dance class in Plymouth. If yours isn't here, drop it in the form.
01What's on the Fame soundtrack for the session?
The title track is the obvious one and most groups want it. Beyond that we can pull from the film and the series — Hot Lunch Jam, Out Here On My Own for a slower bride moment, Starmaker — or borrow from the wider 80s if there's a song the bride can't be without. Tell us in the enquiry and we'll build the session around it.
02Do we need to be flexible to do the kicks?
Not at all. Every kick in the routine has a low version and a high version, and the choreographer will show both so each hen picks her own. The leap is the same — a hop for some, a full jeté for the one who did ballet till she was sixteen. It looks great precisely because everyone's doing it their own way.
03Leg warmers: essential or optional?
Leg warmers, leotards, headbands, off-the-shoulder sweatshirts — go as far as you dare, because the photos are half the fun. Bring your own gear (we don't supply outfits) and wear trainers or jazz shoes underneath; the routine involves proper jumping, so heels are best left for later.
04Is this a workout as well as a dance class?
Honestly, a bit. 80s jazz is energetic and the routine gets the heart rate up, but it's delivered in short bursts with plenty of laughing breaks between. Nobody is made to do anything they can't; the choreographer reads the room and keeps the pace where the whole group is comfortable.
05Is there a solo moment for the bride in the Fame class?
She gets the audition. The group forms a line behind her, she's called forward, and her own short solo — a walk, a pose, a kick, whatever suits her — kicks off the final chorus. If she'd rather be part of the line than in front of it, that's just as easy to choreograph; let us know which she is.
06Is the Fame class held in the city centre?
In a studio we hire in Plymouth city centre — we confirm the exact room once your booking is in, and it's always walkable from the station and the Barbican. If your hens are all staying in one place with a decent bit of floor, we're happy to come to you instead and run the class there.