Does anyone know where you can get a couple of private dance lessons to enable myself and my lovely groom not to look like a couple of penguins when we have our first dance!

:hihi:

lol funnily enough i was thinking this the other day! Just to stop my partner resembling mr bean on the dance floor of course lol

We've been thinking of the same thing and I've made enquiries recently with the new dance school on Penistone Road (near Morrisons) - can't the life of me think what its called at the moment. They quoted me £30 per hour for private lessons. Going to fix up couple of sessions in the new year. I explained that we've picked our first song so the lessons will be putting some moves to it.

I drove up Penistone road to look for it! The one near the Hillsborough Barracks is City Limits. I now also have a number of a lady who teaches in penistone school who came very highly recommended Helen Neil 07771610868.

From flapping penguins into beautiful swans!

My husband and I wanted to learn the Viennese Waltz as we went to a ball in Vienna as part of our honeymoon. 'City Limits' dance centre in sheffield were fantastic - we had a private lesson for just £10! It's also home to Darren and Lillia from Strictly Come Dancing!

Is there anywhere else other than city limits that offers wedding dance tutition?

Having watched many a couple dance their first dance (I'm a wedding DJ), I really dont think you need lessons!

My advice - choose the song you want and practice holding each other in the privacy of your own home and slowly move around to the music.

I've never ever seen a couple do any fancy movements, all anyone does is to move slowly and gently to the music, barely moving their feet and certainly not moving around the dance floor.

Just get used to holding each other and moving slowly to the song and you'll be fine. Trust me!!

Having watched many a couple dance their first dance (I'm a wedding DJ), I really dont think you need lessons!

My advice - choose the song you want and practice holding each other in the privacy of your own home and slowly move around to the music.

I've never ever seen a couple do any fancy movements, all anyone does is to move slowly and gently to the music, barely moving their feet and certainly not moving around the dance floor.

Just get used to holding each other and moving slowly to the song and you'll be fine. Trust me!!

thats fine but me and OH arent the soppy, slow dancey type people! Although he wants to try jiving :loopy: not in my big dress! :hihi:

I had my first dance lessons with Egor at City Limits, he is fantastic. He has not choreographed anything for us just taught us how to foxtrot(Our first dance song is a fox trot style swing song funnily enough)
I really dont want to sway in the middle of the room, I dont slow dance even when there are other people on the dance floor however I do jazz, tap, ballet, jive, salsa, street, break etc etc so for us it makes to sense to actually dance our first dance. All together we have had 4 half hour lessons (half an hour is more than enough for poor blokie, I dance for a hobby he doesnt so any more than that and his head might explode) and we are all set

How much are lessons there for dancing?

It cost us £15 for half an hour private lesson. Group lessons if you just want the basics are about £6 per hour/45 minutes depending on the class. If a couple has a bit of rythem and confidence and just wanted to learnt to move around the floor they could easily just attend the beginners ball room lessons for £6 and achieve the same thing we did (unfrotuanlty blokie ahs no rythem when it comes to dancing despite ebing a muscian so group lessons didnt work for us)

City Limits have had an open day today with Lillia Toppleova or whatever she is called. I went along.

(very sexy bum :Dbut i didn't get to dance with her :()

Am getting married soon and am concerned about the first dance. Is there any way of not doing one or opting out in some way?

I know how you feel, we got married last year & both felt like that. Thing is I wouldn't worry - the thing about getting married is everyone is watching you all day anyway...... On plus side at least everyone there will be people you want there.

We took 4 dance lessons at the place in Hillsborough - opposite leisure centre - city limits. Didn't turn us into ginger rogers & fred astaire but it gave us a routine, which we could concentrate on for the 3 mins 30 of song.

We have the same problem and are going to Drapers Dance at Beighton to learn a dance specifically to 'our song'. It's a bit expensive but helps my nerves knowing i won't just be stood there embarrased!

http://www.drapersdancecentre.co.uk/dance-school.asp?article_id=126

We dont have an "our song" as our taste in music differs so much! We're not going to pick one just for the sake of it so we won't be doing one.

Most weddings I've been to have the kiddies running on to the dance floor at this point so it'll save me worrying about tripping over them too. :P

My fiance (ooh it's first time i've said that - we only got engaged last week) is a nervous dancer with hardly any rythem, i think we'll just sway to a slow song lol.

I grinned like a cheshire cat when i said 'fiance' for the first time! Can't imagine my face when it's 'husband'! hehe! yeah tbh we will probably just sway about with bright red faces though it seems a shame when we can both dance ahhh well as long as i go the whole day without falling over - that's my biggest fear!

Makes me think of when we got engaged. The dj made an announcement that he was putting a song on especially for us to dance to together. I was mortified! My oh was mortified! Hehehehe. We heard the announcement that it was coming on and escaped to the toilets! We stayed there until the song had finished! :o

Is it really like, "wedding law" that you have to do the dance?
If it is, then me and the oh are just gonna have to carry on living in sin! ;)
There's not a chance we would do "the dance".

If you feel so strongly about it, just dont do it.
Theres no point letting something so trivial ruin the best day of your life, which you have spent hard earned cash and countless hours on!
You dont want the whole day ruined by fretting about doing a dance.

Wishing you all the luck in the world!!!!!
Have a brilliant day!

I DJ a lot of weddings and find that probably two thirds of couples have that first dance. A third totally disregard it and don't bother.

Those that do have it, I'd say that one in ten couples will have a pre rehearsed dance routine. The rest just do a slow sway to the song.

I do advise couples to have a bit of a practice just physically dancing together closely to the song before hand, so you have an idea where your feet will be going.

Don't do anything you don't want to do. It's your special day and you have to enjoy it.

My htb is not a dancer at all but I (unfortuantely for him) am a dance teacher so the first dance in kinda expected. I like the idea of having an intimate 30 seconds in the middle of such a busy day. We are just going to have a nice slow sway (we picked one of the James Bond movies sound tracks as he could relate to that a bit more) but i think it can go on for ages so i asked a few couple friends of mine to come and start dancing too in like the second verse to break it up and take some of the attention away from us again.

But that sais i agree with everyone else. If you don't feel comfy doing it then don't!
:)

hi,

Can anyone recommend a private dance tutor to help me (and fiancee) with our first dance.

We are not looking for anything too elaborate, just help do something more than a shuffle.

we are happy to travel but ideally something closer to S8 or the city centre.

thank you

Check out dancemotion http://www.dancemotion.co.uk/

They specialise in exactly what you want! Including hen nights, bridesmaids' dances (in case you fancy all of you breaking out into Saturday Night Fever at the reception!) and bride/groom stuff.

I take dance lessons at City Limits and planning to have a couple of private lessons with them before our wedding too. They're on Penistone Rd near Hillsborough

http://www.city-limits.co.uk/

Its not near you sadly, but we used http://www.dance-in-time.co.uk/ , a husband and wife team who offer private lessons to teach wedding dances.
It was definetely one of my favourite things about my wedding, mainly because of the shock everybody got when they saw my husband dancing! (no he wasn't that bad, he just doesnt usually DO dancing :hihi:)
The lessons themselves were great fun too, they enabled us to spend some time together away from the usual routines.

Here at City Limits on Penistone Road we offer a Wedding Package - which is arrange between yourselves and the teacher assigned to you. You get three 1 hour lessons to choreograph and practice a routine to your own chosen song. The cost is £75 for the three lessons, and you can back follow up lessons nearer the big day. If you are interested please call us 01142344866!

Thanks!

We had dance lessons for our first dance! Had Danielle from city limits
highly reccomend, the dance was perfect, simple but wow'd the crowd, only had 3 1 hour lessons (with a bit of practace inbetween at home!)

what are your opinions experiences?

My opinion is that you should have a first dance.
We had a first dance, and had lessons at Citylimits (with Jayne) to do a structured one.
It was the best thing we could have done and we both really really enjoyed it. My Husband also enjoyed the lessons, although he didnt think he would.
We danced to Ave Marie - Beyonce (we also had the classical version sang in church) and did a rumba style dance. :)

its just difficult because neither of us want anything to rehearsed, and my partner is just happy making it up as we go along

try going to some Ceroc classes.

they will teach you a series of moves and you can put them together how you like - and ad some moves of your own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Yg2O2kGjg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3igVC4bltQ&feature=related

look a bit basic? they are the classes. what about putting it all together?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QzoOez4Ndk

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