Texas Hold’em Hen Party Dance Class NewcastleHats off, hips loose, boots optional.
Two years old and already requested by name. Texas Hold’em turned a country stomp into a chart-topper and handed hen parties something the catalogue badly needed: a routine built on swagger rather than on steps you have to be able to do. Your teacher reads the group first and the routine is invented on the spot, with as much hip and as much drawl as the afternoon can take. £170 for ninety minutes or £145 for sixty, whole party included, plus only the venue’s hire cost — in one of three rooms we hire in the city or at your hen house anywhere in the North East. No dance experience needed, and the hat is yours to bring.
Right then — when?
Give us the date, a rough number of hens and the sort of time you fancy starting. Inside the day you get availability confirmed, a recommendation on which of the three rooms suits your size of group, and both costs in writing: the flat teaching fee, and separately whatever the room itself charges.
the hat is optional, the form is not ✦
All swagger, nowt technical.
The appeal is obvious the second the track starts. It is a stomping, hand-clapping, hip-swinging thing that rewards commitment over accuracy, which makes it the friendliest hen party activity on the list for a group that describes itself as hopeless. There is no correct posture to achieve and no decade to research — there is a beat, a bit of drawl, and a dozen people finding out that confidence is most of the job.
It has aged well as a group idea, too. A dance hen party built on one enormous modern track puts the twenty-somethings and the aunties on the same side immediately, and unlike a good many hen party ideas it asks nobody to have watched, read or loved anything in advance. Groups here tend to pair it with a Bigg Market night, which is why the hen do dance class version we teach finishes on a chorus that survives until closing time.
In, and hats on
Bags down, boots on if you brought them, and a first listen loud enough to shift the shyness out of the room.
The attitude drill
Before any counting: how to stand, how to point, how to look like you meant it. Five minutes, enormous difference.
Built in front of you
How much hip, how many claps, who takes the middle — the routine is invented on the spot to fit what the room can do.
Full pelt, filmed
One last go at proper volume with a phone propped up, because this one always looks better than it felt.
your routine, your room, your afternoon — never a copy of last weekend’s
Room to teach the swagger, build the whole thing, and film it twice if the first go collapses in laughing.
The quick telling — one chorus, done loud. Popular with parties eating early down on the Quayside.
Barn conversions out past Hexham, holiday lets in Tynemouth, a kitchen with the table shifted — teaching fee alone.
one canny flat figure whether there are seven of you or twenty-seven
Somewhere with a proper floor.
Boots need space and a surface that will not punish them, which is why we hire real rooms by the hour instead of borrowing the corner of a bar. Your quote names the room and its hire cost in writing, and you decide from there without anybody chasing you.
What they reckoned.
Twelve of us in cowboy hats we had bought ourselves on the way there. The video is the single best thing on my phone.Maid of honour · party of 12 · Newcastle
Asked for something nobody else had done and got exactly that. Two of the group have booked it for their own hens since.Bridesmaid · party of 10 · Cramlington
The bride’s mam was the best in the room by a mile and she has never had a dance lesson in her life.Sister of the bride · party of 14 · Sunderland
Hold’em, unpacked.
the seven that come up every time ↓
Is this a country class or a pop one?+
Both, deliberately. The track is country in costume and pop in construction, so the routine borrows the stomp and the claps and then builds them into something that works for a room full of beginners. Nobody needs to know a single traditional country step beforehand.
Do we need hats and boots for it?+
No, though most groups turn up in something. Every hat, boot and fringed jacket in the room belongs to the person wearing it — we do not lend, hire out or hand over any of it — and a party in trainers loses nothing whatsoever.
What is the full cost of the session?+
£170 for the ninety-minute class or £145 for the hour, covering everybody present, then the venue’s hire cost on top and named in writing before you agree. Do it where you are staying and there is no room to pay for.
Will the routine be hard to pick up?+
It is one of the easier ones on the list, because attitude carries more of it than footwork does. The teacher keeps the base version simple enough for the least confident hen and sharpens it up for anybody who wants more.
Can a group of eight book this?+
Yes, and eight is a good number for it — everyone gets seen and everyone gets corrected. The fee is identical for eight as for twenty-two, so a small party is never quietly penalised for being small.
Is there anything the venue needs to have?+
A floor, a socket and a door. That is the honest list. The rooms we hire have mirrors and space to travel as well, but a cleared living room anywhere on Tyneside works perfectly and costs you nothing to use.
How soon should we get the date in?+
Sooner is better for summer Saturdays, which move quickly, though plenty of parties book three weeks out and still get what they wanted. Send the date over and you will know within the day whether it is free.
