Six Week Dance Course: What to Expect at Femme & Soul

Six weeks from now, you will film a routine you cannot picture yet. That is the strange promise every new woman hears on her first night at Femme & Soul, and it is also the part nobody quite believes until week five arrives.

What a Six Week Dance Course Actually Looks Like

At Femme & Soul, every course runs as a six week dance course: one class a week, same room, same group, building week on week toward a routine you perform (just for each other, on your phones) on the final night. There is no drop in chaos and no guessing what happens next. Each week has a job to do, and by the time you reach week six you understand why the order matters.

This structure is why the six week format works so well for total beginners. You are not thrown into a routine on night one and left to catch up. You are given time.

Week One: Wobbly, Honest, and Exactly as It Should Be

Week one is fundamentals: how to stand in a heel, how to walk in one without watching your feet, how to find your centre of balance before anyone asks you to move to music. It is, frankly, a bit wobbly. Ankles wobble. Confidence wobbles. Everyone in the room is wobbling together, which is precisely the point of a women only room: nobody here is performing composure for anyone else.

If week one goes exactly as described, wobble and all, you are doing it right.

Weeks Two and Three: Choreography Starts to Layer

By week two, walking becomes travelling, and travelling becomes shapes. Small phrases of choreography get added, then layered onto what you already learned the week before. This is where a beginner heels course either clicks into a rhythm or feels like too much too fast, and the difference is almost always pace. Two or three counts of eight a week, repeated until the body remembers them without the brain narrating every step.

Repetition is not filler. It is the whole mechanism. Your body learns choreography the way it learns anything else it needs for life: by doing it again, slightly better, in the same room, with the same people, until it stops feeling like homework.

Week Four: The Dip Where It Clicks

Every course has a week four. Energy dips, some steps blur together, and for a night it can feel like you have gone backwards. Then, often in the very same class, something clicks. The choreography that felt like fragments suddenly reads as one piece of music. It rarely announces itself. You simply realise, somewhere around the second run through, that your feet already know where they are going.

The class does not get easier. You get more used to being someone who can do this.

Weeks Five and Six: The Routine and the Filming

The final fortnight is about polish, not new material. Formations tighten, transitions smooth out, and the routine you have been building since week two finally reads as a whole. Week six ends with filming it, on phones, in the room, for each other. Nobody outside the group ever needs to see it unless you want them to.

What to Bring

Comfortable clothes you can move in, a water bottle, and heels you can actually walk in (advice on choosing a first pair is worth asking about before night one). That is really all a six week dance course asks of you at the start. Femme & Soul provides the room, the music, and six weeks of women moving through the same thing together. You provide the wobble, and later, the routine.

Ready for Your Own Six Weeks?

If you have been wondering what to expect from your first dance course, the honest answer is a wobbly first night, a slow build, a week four wall, and a routine you will be genuinely proud of by week six. That is the shape of every six week dance course we run, and it is worth doing once you know what to expect from it. Have a look at our courses to find the next six week block starting near you, or read more about the studio and the room Rita built for exactly this.