First dance lessons for two people at a time, taught in your own house, at the venue you have booked, or on a floor hired nearby. No class to join, nobody at the edge of the room, nothing to be self-conscious about.
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Six boxes is the whole thing. A person reads what you write and rings you back to talk about the song, the date, and the room you would rather learn in.
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Stone chapels, converted works down by the river, hotel function rooms in the suburbs, barns on the Derbyshire edge. What Sheffield weddings share is not a style; it is a couple somewhere in the middle of the guest list wondering how loudly their heart will be beating at nine o'clock.
Nearly every couple we teach here starts at home, because that is where you can get things wrong without an audience. Rugs rolled back, kettle on, one instructor and the two of you. Nothing is filmed and nothing goes anywhere near the internet.
Steps are the easy half. What you are really paying for is the feeling of walking onto a floor knowing exactly what happens next, which is why the last lessons are spent repeating a routine you already know rather than adding to it.
Lessons in Sheffield are taught by instructors who already work across the city and are entirely unshockable about beginners. They have taught in narrow terraces, on landings, and in one or two rooms where the sofa had to go out into the hall.
You are paired with someone covering your part of the city who has time free before your date. They choreograph your first dance themselves, from your recording, around what the two of you can comfortably do in week one rather than what looks good on somebody else. There is no set syllabus here to be measured against.
Whoever you are matched with, the way of teaching and the price are the same. If your date changes and another instructor takes over, that stays true.
Five packages, charged per couple, identical to what we charge anywhere else in the country. Nothing is added for coming to your address, and there is no form to fill in before you are allowed to see a number.
Every figure is for the two of you together and includes the teaching wherever in Sheffield we meet. Should you want more lessons afterwards, they are booked singly at the usual rate.
Nobody needs to watch the practising. Only the dance.
Send an enquiry Or speak to someone on 07337 111560Lessons are one-to-one with a couple and come to whichever floor you pick. Three work well, and most people here start with the first.
A terrace in Walkley, a semi in Nether Edge, a flat up by Broomhill: if there is room to stand facing each other and turn, there is room to begin. Your own heating, your own music, and nobody looking in.
Later on, if the venue will let you in for a session, one run in the space itself takes a surprising amount of fear out of the day. Worth asking them; many say yes when a date is quiet.
Where the house is genuinely too small, we take a hall or studio floor near you and meet there instead. Which one depends on what is free at the time, and it is agreed with you before the lesson.
The city centre, Crookes, Walkley, Hillsborough, Broomhill, Nether Edge, Ecclesall, Woodseats, Dore and Totley, plus Rotherham, Chesterfield, Dronfield, Barnsley and the villages along the Hope Valley. Live slightly outside that? Ask, and we will tell you straight.
A fair share of enquiries begin with an apology, as though dreading the first dance were unusual. It is the ordinary reaction to standing in the middle of a floor while every person you invited watches from a few feet away. Knowing precisely what your feet do next is the cure, and it is a practical one.
You are not obliged to have a routine at all. Some couples want three simple things: a way of arriving that does not look like being pushed, one turn that photographs nicely, and a clear finish. That can be taught in a single session and it changes how the whole thing feels.
Around South Yorkshire and the Peak Wedding dance lessons in Doncaster, Leeds, Nottingham, Derby and Bradford.
City-specific ones below. The wider questions — lesson numbers, shoes, timing — are on the main page.
It usually is. Early lessons need about the space of a double bed with the coffee table shifted, because the first job is how the two of you stand, hold and move together rather than covering ground. If the routine grows past the room later, one session somewhere larger sorts it and the price does not move.
That is the main reason people choose home. It is your instructor and the two of you, with the curtains shut if you like. Nobody films anything, nothing is put online, and there is no group at the side of the room waiting for their turn.
Less than you fear. Most of a first dance is walked and turned rather than stamped, and the music only needs to be loud enough for the two of you to hear the beat. If you live above someone light-sleeping, say so and your instructor will keep the work quiet.
Not enough to matter. Instructors work across these hills all the time and are used to permit streets and steep terraces. Mention anything unusual about your street when you book, and allow a couple of minutes at the start rather than worrying about it.
Very little that could embarrass anyone. You talk about the wedding, your song goes on, and you are asked to walk about the room to it. Steps come afterwards. Almost every couple relaxes once they realise they are not being auditioned.
It helps, though not on its own. Repetition at home makes the routine automatic, which is what nerves cannot easily undo. The other half is rehearsing the being-looked-at part, so towards the end you will be asked to perform the whole thing once, unaided, while your instructor sits down at the other end of the room and offers nothing.
Reading this twice usually means the answer is yes.
Start your Sheffield first dance One lesson, £75, for the two of you together