RuPaul Hen Party Dance Class SouthamptonSashay in, strut out, leave with the video.
Drag Race turned the runway walk into a national sport, and a hen party is the ideal place to practise one. Expect attitude, shoulders, a duck walk, some very slow hair flicks and a lip-sync finish the group will replay all night. Your teacher builds the routine on the day around who wants the spotlight and who would rather be excellent in row two — no experience required for either job. It runs in a room we hire between Southampton Central and the Bedford Place bars, or wherever the weekend is staying. Ninety minutes is £185, an hour is £160, and the venue’s hire cost is the only sum added on top.
The good dates get taken early.
Send over the date and rough numbers and back come availability, both rooms’ hire costs and answers to anything else, within the day and from a person. Still comparing hen party activities? Book the slot undecided and switch the theme later, free of charge.
Attitude first, steps second.
Most themes ask you to learn choreography. This one asks you to commit to a face, which is a far easier sell for a group who have already decided the weekend is not about being sensible. The walk, the pose and the dramatic drop are all learnable in an afternoon; the swagger is the part that spreads. Your teacher casts the room as they go, because a dance hen party works best when the loudest person and the quietest one both get a moment. Of all the hen party ideas that promise confidence, this one simply hands it over.
Runway for everyone. Heels are entirely optional — trainers do the walk just as well and hurt considerably less by six o’clock.
Your wardrobe, your call. Wigs, lashes, boas and heels are the group’s to bring; we turn up with the class and the music, nothing else.
Mixed groups welcome. Brothers, best men and anyone else who fancies it — this has never been a women-only room.
The runway, step by step.
give or take — the order belongs to your teacherEntrance
Names, music and everybody working out that the room is entirely on their side.
The walk
Posture, hips, arms and the long stare. Deceptively technical, immediately funny.
Casting the number
Solo moments, group formations and a finish, invented as they go for the people standing in front of them. Pencil, never ink.
Lip-sync for your life
The full routine, filmed, with an ending nobody wrote down beforehand.
your runway number is written for your party and never passed on to the next one.
The full runway: entrance, walk, group number and a proper lip-sync finish.
Enough for the walk, the poses and one short routine before the taxis arrive.
Living rooms make surprisingly good runways once the coffee table has been moved. Just the class fee out here — there is no room to pay for.
one flat fee for the whole cast, headliners and back row alike, with nothing worked out person by person.
Two rooms, both walkable.
Both are rooms we hire, both have the floor and the sound for a proper runway, and both get matched to your headcount when the booking is confirmed. Room hire is quoted in writing with your date, before you agree to anything.
we hire both of these rooms for the afternoon; neither one belongs to us, and we would rather say so.
Reviews from the judges’ panel.
“Our teacher had the shyest bridesmaid dropping to the floor by the end. None of us have recovered.”
“Booked as a warm-up for the night out and half the group is still practising the walk in the kitchen.”
“Six of us, two of them blokes, all equally terrible and all equally delighted with ourselves.”
The runway, explained.
seven things asked before the wigs are ordered.
Do we need wigs, heels or full drag makeup?+
Not one bit of it, though plenty of parties go all in. Wigs, lashes, heels and anything sequinned come from the group — we never supply costume of any kind — and the class runs identically for people in jeans. The attitude is the costume that actually matters.
Are death drops actually part of a RuPaul class?+
Only if your teacher judges the floor, the shoes and the party to be up to it, and it is always optional. Most groups get a controlled version that looks dramatic and lands safely, plus poses that photograph even better. Nobody is ever pushed into throwing themselves at a floor.
Which Drag Race numbers might our routine borrow from?+
That is decided in the room. Your teacher raids the catalogue — the anthems, the runway tracks, the pop songs the show made famous — and picks whatever suits the group in front of them. Requests are welcome on the day; a set list promised in advance is not how we work.
Can men and mixed groups join this hen class?+
Absolutely, and they often do. The routine is cast rather than gendered, so brothers, best men and stag-side guests get the same walk and the same solos. Mixed rooms tend to be the loudest ones we teach.
What will the runway class cost us in total?+
£185 for ninety minutes or £160 for the hour — one figure for the whole group — and then the venue hire on whichever room you pick, quoted in writing first. Bring us to your own hen house and that second number is zero.
What if none of us can walk in heels?+
Then wear trainers and be magnificent. The runway walk is built from posture and timing rather than footwear, and a flat shoe makes the sharp turns considerably easier. No experience in heels, or in dance, is assumed at any point.
Does this fit before an evening out in town?+
It is the most common way it gets booked. Finish the hen do dance class in the late afternoon on Bedford Place, walk approximately nowhere, and arrive at the first bar with a routine, a video and far too much confidence.
