Ponytails up, positions ready · Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande Hen Party
Dance Class
Plymouth.
Ariana Grande, hen-do edition: hair-flicks, sass-laden struts and choreography lifted from the Ariana songbook, rebuilt so genuine beginners can own it — taught privately to your group in Plymouth city centre. The flat fee is £160 for an hour or £185 for ninety minutes, shared joy, never split bills.
You bring the attitude and the high ponytail — the choreography turns out to be the easy part.
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- A single £160 fee for however many hens you bring
- Real Ariana-style choreography, scaled for beginners
- Same-day answers more often than not, always within 24 hours
Plymouth Dance Centre
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Any group size — one flat rate.
No per-person maths.
Thank you!
Why Ariana works
Small steps,
enormous attitude.
Some hen groups want nostalgia; others want to feel like the main act. The Ariana theme is for the second kind, and it has become one of the fastest-rising picks among our hen party dance classes in Plymouth for a simple reason: her choreography style is built from small, sharp, learnable moves. A flick of the wrist, a drop of the shoulder, a strut with intent — none of it demands dance training, all of it looks devastating when twelve friends do it in unison. The confidence arrives somewhere around the second chorus and rarely leaves.
Your choreographer draws from the big-era catalogue — Side to Side for the hip work, 7 rings for the strut, Break Free or Into You when the room needs lifting — and assembles one polished routine with the bride positioned exactly where Ariana would stand. Every move comes in two intensities, so the friend who dances every weekend and the one dragged here mid-protest both finish looking sharp. If your group's allegiance lies with a different modern icon, our Taylor Swift theme scratches the same itch, while Commercial covers the whole music-video style without pledging to one artist.
Plymouth suits this one: a young, studenty city with the energy to match, where a hen party can strut out of a class and straight into the evening feeling untouchable. It's the natural choice for groups in their twenties and early thirties, for bridesmaids who share edited videos with three fire emojis, and for brides whose gym playlist is basically an Ariana discography. More than a few couples have followed the hen weekend by booking wedding first dance lessons with us — apparently the confidence is contagious.
Zero surprises
Exactly what
you get.
All of the below sits within the one fee. The only line on top is hiring the room itself, which we organise and confirm as part of booking.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- Ariana Grande choreography built for your group
- All music and sound equipment
- Warm-up and cool-down
- Beginner-friendly instruction
- Photo and video opportunities
- Help picking the theme and the song
- Group coordination beforehand
- A spotlight moment for the bride
What you'll experience
- Signature Ariana styling — flicks, struts and stares
- Side to Side hip work taken at beginner speed
- A 7 rings strut section the group will keep forever
- Two intensity levels for every move — pick your lane
- The bride staged as the headliner throughout
- A slow-motion-worthy walk-off to close the show
Perfect for
- Twenties-and-thirties parties with big playlist opinions
- The bride whose ponytail is already regulation height
- Groups who want to feel fierce, not just entertained
- Bridesmaids fluent in music-video choreography clips
- A pre-night-out activity that doubles as a confidence boost
- Hens plotting content the group chat will actually keep
Hour by hour
The Ariana hour,
minute by minute.
First comes the attitude workshop — five minutes on the walk, the stance and the over-the-shoulder look, which sounds silly right up until it transforms how the whole routine reads. The choreography then builds in tight eight-count blocks: hips for the verse, flicks for the pre-chorus, the strut saved for the drop, each block drilled with its slice of the track before the next joins on.
By the final third the group is performing rather than practising, and the choreographer stages the closing picture around the bride — her walk-off out front, hens fanned behind in formation. Ninety-minute bookings gain a second song plus time to film the routine like the mini music video it deserves to be.
Rave reviews, literally
Direct from the
group chat.
"None of us are dancers and by the end we genuinely looked like Ariana's backing troupe. The two-speed teaching thing is genius."
"Booked the Ariana class as a surprise for my best friend. She walked in mortified and strutted out demanding we do it again next year."
"The 7 rings strut has entered our friendship group permanently. Airports, supermarkets, my kitchen — nowhere is safe."
"Ponytails. Sass. Tears of laughter. Next question."
Ariana specifics
The pre-booking
debrief.
What Plymouth hens ask us about the Ariana Grande theme before committing. The form above happily takes the weirder ones too.
01Which Ariana tracks make the setlist?
The routine usually lives on one of the big four — 7 rings, Side to Side, Break Free or Into You — with others feeding the warm-up. State the bride's favourite on the enquiry form and that becomes the track; her catalogue is deep enough that we've never been beaten yet.
02Isn't her choreography really difficult?
The televised version is; yours won't be. We keep the signature shapes — the flicks, the strut, the attitude — and strip out anything requiring years of training. Each move also comes in a gentler variant, so every hen finds a version she can land.
03Do we need heels for the full effect?
No — trainers are the default and honestly what we recommend. Hens used to dancing in heels are welcome to wear low ones for the strut section, but nothing in the routine depends on footwear. The ponytail, on the other hand, is strongly encouraged.
04Will the routine suit a mixed-ability group?
That's what the two-speed teaching is for. The confident dancers take the full-fat version while anyone nervous shadows the simplified line, and in formation the two blend into one sharp-looking whole. Nobody stands out for the wrong reasons.
05Where does the bride fit into the Ariana Grande choreography?
She fronts it. The staging treats her as the artist and the rest of the party as her dancers — solo strut, centre spot, the works, dialled up or down to taste. Filming the final run is expected, encouraged and frankly inevitable.
06Which part of Plymouth hosts the Ariana Grande session?
Sessions run from a studio we hire in Plymouth city centre, minutes from the bars and restaurants most hen itineraries revolve around; the full address arrives with your booking confirmation. Groups staying somewhere spacious can flip it round and have us come to them.