Cheerleading Hen Party Dance Class NewcastleSharp arms, big voice, no pyramids.
Cheer is the theme that gets the quiet ones shouting. Your teacher builds a sideline-style number for your exact group — clean geometric arm shapes, a stomp-heavy eight-count and a chant with the bride’s name buried in it — and writes it in real time in front of you. Choose one of the three rooms we hire round town, or keep everybody at the hen house and the teacher will drive out anywhere in the North East. Everything stays on the floor: no stunting, no tumbling, nobody held above hip height by anybody. The ninety costs £170 and the hour £145, with only the venue’s hire cost added on top of that. No experience required, and most of every group has never done anything like it.
Give us a shout.
The date, a rough headcount and a rough start time is plenty to be going on with. Within the day you’ll have availability confirmed, the best-fit room out of the three, and two written figures — the teaching fee and the room hire, kept apart so you can see which is which. Squad still arguing cheer against something else entirely? Pencil it in as undecided and settle it nearer the time, at no cost.
a group chat is not a booking — this little form is ✦
Loud beats complicated.
A cheerleading hen party dance class asks for volume rather than technique, which is exactly why it works on groups who would freeze at anything balletic. The shapes are big and geometric — you can be a foot out of line and still look correct, because eight people hitting a high V on the same beat reads as one single thing rather than eight separate attempts. That makes it a rare hen do dance class where the least confident person in the room is often the one grinning hardest by the end of it. No experience needed at all, and nothing whatsoever is being marked. Run as a dance hen party it photographs unusually well too: straight lines, matching arms, the bride out in front where she belongs. And as hen party activities go, it is one of very few that hands everybody a job, because a chant needs voices at least as much as it needs legs. Howay, of all the hen party ideas circulating in the group chat at two in the morning, this is the one that leaves people hoarse the next day.
Bags down, shoes on
Introductions, a laugh about who’s least coordinated, and the apologising stops inside ten minutes.
Arms before feet
Motion drills — high V, low V, daggers — until the shapes sit in the body without thinking.
The number gets written
Your teacher builds it around the people actually stood there: who chants, who counts, who ends up front line.
One take for the camera
Phones propped for the final run so the finish exists on video long after the weekend.
no two squads ever leave with the same eight-count ✦
The full build: motions, chant, a formation change and a finish caught properly on film.
Tighter and just as loud, which suits a party with a table booked for eight o’clock.
Front rooms in Whitley Bay, farmhouses out past Morpeth — teaching fee and nothing else.
one figure for the lot of you, whatever the final headcount turns out to be ✦
Three floors, your pick.
Cheer wants a bit of width — enough to spread a line of eight and still swing an arm without hitting a cousin. All three rooms we hire manage that, and your quote names the one held for you along with what it costs to hire, in writing, before anything is agreed.
Sidelines, reported.
We booked it as a laugh and it turned into the bit everyone still talks about. Sixteen of us hitting the same shape at the same second, then doing it again in the street outside.Chief bridesmaid · party of 16 · Whitley Bay
My sister has never danced anywhere except a wedding reception and she finished the session inventing the chant. Not one person was made to feel daft.Bride’s sister · party of 12 · Durham
Cheer, questioned.
the six every organiser asks first ↓
Will anyone be lifted, thrown or stunted here?+
No — everything stays at floor level from start to finish. Stunting and tumbling are a separate discipline with matting and insurance to match, and a hen weekend is not the place to take that up. What you get instead is the dance-and-chant half of cheer: motions, formations, a stomp section and a great deal of shouting.
Do we need pom-poms, and who buys them?+
Only if you want them in the photographs, and if so the group sources them. Pom-poms, bows and matching vests are all yours to buy and bring — never anything the studio hands out. Plenty of parties turn up in leggings and the bride’s sash and it looks every bit as sharp on camera.
What is the all-in price for a cheer session?+
Two numbers and no others. £170 buys ninety minutes for the entire squad with the venue’s hire cost sitting alongside it, or £145 buys sixty minutes with that same venue figure attached, and both reach you in writing first. Held at the hen house you have rented, that venue line comes to nothing at all. Nothing anywhere is priced by the head.
Is this too energetic for the mams and aunties?+
It is loud rather than punishing. Arms do most of the work, the drilling comes in short bursts with proper breathers between them, and your teacher pitches the whole session at whoever looks least keen. Nobody is doing jumps unless they have decided they fancy jumps.
Can we do this before a night on the Bigg Market?+
That is the usual running order. An afternoon slot, back to the house to change, then out. Newgate Street and Neville Street both sit a short walk from town, so nobody ends up paying for taxis in between.
Could we swap cheer for a different theme later?+
The date is the thing you are holding, not the theme. Move to anything else on the list up to roughly a week beforehand and it costs nothing, because our teachers cover the whole range anyway.
