SIX the Musical Hen Party Dance Class SouthamptonSix queens, one concert, considerably more than six of you.
SIX turned a history lesson into a pop concert and handed hen parties one of the best group numbers going: sharp, poppy, full of attitude and built for people who quite fancy being at the front. You do not need exactly six of you — your teacher casts the room as they find it, hands solos to whoever wants one, and writes the routine live rather than importing one from last weekend. No experience required; enthusiasm for a key change and a decent glare covers it. It runs in a hired central room, or at whichever house or hotel the weekend has taken over. It is £185 for ninety minutes and £160 for the hour, whatever the headcount, plus the venue’s hire cost.
Concert dates go quickly in summer.
Send the date and rough numbers and we will reply with availability, both rooms’ hire costs and answers to anything the group chat is arguing about. Still comparing hen party activities? Take the slot undecided and pick the theme later at no extra cost.
A concert, not a history lesson.
The show works because every queen gets her own moment, which is precisely what makes it such a good hen do dance class. Somebody in your group wants a solo. Somebody else wants to be quietly brilliant in the back line with excellent arms. This has room for both, plus a chorus where twenty people land the same pose at the same time and it looks properly rehearsed. Your teacher settles the shape once they have met the group, so a dance hen party built on the queens ends up cast rather than choreographed from a distance.
Cast yourselves. Six queens, twenty guests, no problem — the parts get shared out however the room wants them shared.
Tudor gear is yours. Crowns, chokers and studded anything come from the group; we bring a teacher, the music and nothing more.
Pop, not ballet. Sharp arms, attitude and clean lines, with no experience needed to look excellent doing them.
How the concert comes together.
roughly — the running order is the teacher’sDoors open
Introductions, music on, and the quick discovery that the shy ones are being looked after.
Queen vocabulary
Sharp arms, struts, poses and the attitude that holds the entire thing together.
Casting and building
Solos, group formations and a finish, composed on the day around who wants what.
The concert
Full run at volume, filmed from the front, then a second take because the first always improves.
the number is written for your six, or your sixteen, and never recycled for anybody else.
Time enough for solos, the group chorus and an ending that looks arranged.
One strong chorus number and a pose everybody nails, for tight schedules.
Function rooms, holiday lets and one extremely grand hallway have all worked. The room costs nothing when it already belongs to you.
one price for the whole court, queens and ladies-in-waiting alike, and never worked out per person.
Two rooms, both fit for a concert.
Both are rooms we hire, chosen for floor and sound rather than convenience, and matched to your numbers when the date is confirmed. The hire cost comes to you in writing before anything at all is agreed.
we hire both of these spaces for your afternoon, which is a different thing from owning them.
Dispatches from the tour.
“Eighteen of us and everybody got a moment. Our teacher sorted the solos in about four minutes flat.”
“The bride has watched the video an unreasonable number of times. So, frankly, have I.”
“Two of our group genuinely cannot dance and you would never guess it from the footage.”
The queens, queried.
seven things asked before the crowns arrive.
Do we need exactly six people for a SIX class?+
Not remotely. Parties of eight, fourteen and twenty-two have all done this happily. Your teacher either shares the six featured moments around or builds a bigger ensemble with a rotating front line, so nobody is sitting out and nobody is stuck being queen number four against their will.
Which of the queens’ numbers end up in the routine?+
Decided on the day, from what the group responds to in the first ten minutes. Your teacher carries the score in their head — the opening roll-call, the big solo moments, the finale energy — and picks live rather than posting you a running order in advance.
Do we have to dress as Tudor queens for this?+
Only if you want to, and roughly half of you will. Costume is entirely the group’s own project: we supply the teaching and the music, never the crowns, chokers or anything studded. A party in matching black works exactly as well on camera.
What are we paying for a SIX hen class?+
£185 for ninety minutes or £160 for an hour, plus the venue hire on whichever room you take, quoted before you agree to it. The fee is charged once for the whole party, and if we come to your hen house instead the room side of it disappears.
What if some of the group has never seen SIX?+
They will be fine within one chorus. The routine is taught as pop choreography with attitude, not as a quiz, and the people who arrive knowing nothing usually end up asking for the soundtrack on the drive home. No experience of the show, or of dancing, is needed.
Is it easy to go straight from class to dinner?+
Constantly. One of our hired rooms sits on Bedford Place, so the concert finishes late afternoon and the group walks about two minutes to the first bar, still in formation if the mood is right. Trains back from Southampton Central are equally close.
Is ninety minutes enough for everyone to learn it?+
Yes, and it is the length we would nudge you towards for this theme, because solos take a little time to hand out properly. The hour version works when the day is packed; it simply trims the number of featured moments rather than the fun. As hen party ideas go it is remarkably efficient.
