Texas Hold’em Hen Party Dance Class SouthamptonThe country-pop one. Poker faces optional.
Let us settle this before anybody books a casino table: it is a dance class. The name comes from the country-pop record that had half the country stomping in their kitchens, and the class turns that energy into a group number — claps, struts, swagger and a chorus everybody already shouts. Your teacher assembles it live for whoever is in the room, either in a space we hire near Bedford Place or out at the house the party has taken. Whatever the headcount, it is £185 for the long version or £160 for the short one, and then the venue’s own hire cost. Beginners do best of all.
Tell us the date and we will show our hand.
Two facts get this moving — the date, and roughly how many of you there are. Everything else, including which room and how countrified the afternoon becomes, can wait. Expect a reply the same day with availability and what each space costs to hire.
Country energy, zero poker.
It is the only hen party dance class on our list that has to introduce itself first. Once the card table is off the table, what remains is the loudest and least fussy theme we run: big, simple, floor-shaking movement that flatters a group who cannot dance while still giving the ones who can something to bite on. For a dance hen party it is remarkably good at converting the sceptic in the corner, and it is the hen party idea that most often arrives as a joke and then gets booked in earnest.
Loud by design. Stomps and claps carry a routine further than footwork does, which is why beginners look good in this one quickly.
Hats are yours. If the party fancies a stetson each, somebody in the group is buying them. Our kit list runs to one teacher and one speaker.
Works outdoors. A hen do dance class that copes happily with a patio, a marquee or a garden, provided the ground is level underfoot.
Ninety minutes of stomp and swagger.
indicative only — your teacher shapes the session in the roomCards on the table
Arrival, introductions and the traditional two minutes spent confirming that no poker is going to happen.
Loosening the swagger
A warm-up made of stamps, claps and a shoulder roll nobody will admit to enjoying.
The routine gets dealt
Your teacher writes their own material as they go, reading the room for who wants the front and who very much wants the back.
One run, phones up
The whole thing to music with somebody filming, then a second go, because the first one always improves it.
your teacher deals a different hand to every party — the material is invented in the room rather than repeated off a script
The full afternoon version, with time to nail a chorus properly rather than approximately.
Short, loud and finished before the pub quiz starts. Still filmed, obviously.
Farmhouse kitchens, marquees and garden rooms across Hampshire. The space itself costs you nothing.
everybody in the room is covered by the one number, since a hen party activity charged per person would be the only gamble here
Two rooms we hire in.
Neither belongs to us; both get booked for your party alone and picked to fit your numbers. The hire cost comes back alongside your available dates, in writing, so there is nothing left to discover afterwards.
Hands played so far.
“Two of the group genuinely thought we had booked a poker night. They stayed for the stomping and were the loudest in the video.”
“It was the one thing all weekend that not a single person sat out of. Even the aunties.”
“We did it in the garden of the cottage with a speaker on the windowsill and it was perfect.”
Cards on the table.
seven worth knowing before you book ↓
Is this a poker night or an actual dance class?+
A dance class, entirely. The name comes from the country-pop track rather than the card game, and there are no chips, tables or dealers involved at any stage. If your party genuinely wanted cards then this is the wrong page, though several groups have booked both across one weekend.
Which country-flavoured tracks might the teacher use?+
The obvious one is usually in there somewhere, but teachers here reach for a wider country-pop shelf so that ninety minutes does not lean on a single chorus. What gets chosen depends on the room. Requests in the message box are welcome; a promised tracklist is not how we work.
Do we need stetsons, boots or anything else?+
Nothing at all. If the group wants hats, fringing or a denim theme then that is the group’s shopping trip and not ours — we do not supply, lend or hire out clothing or props of any kind. Trainers beat cowboy boots over an hour and a half on a wooden floor, every time.
How much does a Texas Hold’em hen class in Southampton cost?+
One fee, two lengths: £185 for ninety minutes, £160 for sixty, and the venue’s hire cost on top of whichever you pick. Hold the class at the cottage you have rented and there is nothing to pay for the room. Headcount changes none of it.
Can a group who have never danced manage this one?+
It is arguably the easiest theme we run in that respect. The movement is big rather than intricate, the counts repeat, and volume covers a multitude of sins — twelve people stamping in time look excellent whether or not any of them can dance. No experience is needed and most groups have none.
How is this different from the line dancing hen class?+
Different flavour and a different starting point. The line dancing class leans on the tradition and the step patterns that came with it, while this one is built around one modern crossover record and the swagger that arrived with it. Groups wanting the proper heritage version should book that page instead.
Can the class come out to a cottage we have rented?+
Yes, and a good number of these end up outdoors or in a farmhouse kitchen. Anywhere with a level surface roughly the size of two parked cars and a plug socket will do it, and holding it where you are staying means there is no venue cost added to the fee.
