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February 8, 2022

Top tips for dancing your first dance in your wedding dress

Tips For Dancing in Your Wedding Dress!

Sashay Dance visited Maidens and Ravens to come up with the best advice on dancing in your wedding dress. Here’s our top 5 tips: If you’ve not yet got your dress there’s a few wedding dress styles which make dancing a whole lot easier. Try the high low dress (slightly higher on the hem on the front than the back), the dress with the detachable train or why not use it as the perfect excuse to get 2 completely different dresses. Dresses vary immensely in weight too and generally the lighter the dress the easier it is to dance […]

October 31, 2019

Sashay Dance Delivers Lecture at Leeds Business School

Earlier this week Sarah Hough – Director of Sashay Dance, visited Leeds Beckett University Business School to deliver a lecture on her top business tips and share her journey with Sashay Dance. Sarah started Sashay Dance as a hobby in 2016 and quickly had to learn the ropes of business due to the company’s rapid growth. She started dancing at the age of 6 and this has been her main passion in life. One of her top business tips would be to set up a business based on your passion, as not only will that give you and your customers […]

September 17, 2019

Last Night of Freedom Supplier Awards and Party in Newcastle!

We attended a very exciting event last Thursday for the Last Night of Freedom (LNoF) supplier awards and party in Newcastle. LNoF are the UKs number 1 hen and stag company specialising in creating the best hen and stag weekends, organising anything from hotels, activities to accessories. We have worked with them as a national supplier for 3 years now and this year we were delighted to be nominated again for Best National Supplier! The event started off very civilised with a fizz reception at Bealim House, followed by the awards and then to our surprise we were whisked off […]

June 11, 2019

Could she be next in line for small business of the year

Hot off the press! Sashay Dance – Small Business of The Year?

We are delighted to read the article today on the York Press website to say we are sashaying our way into the frame for Small Business of The Year. I wonder who will Sashay away with the trophy… only time will tell! Here’s a link to the article and a copy of it below: https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/business/awards/profiles/17697996.sarah-sashays-into-the-frame-for-small-business-of-the-year/ York-based Sashay Dance specialises in fun hen party dance classes across the UK. It’s proven to be a hit, thanks to its ‘groovy themes’, such as Dirty Dancing, Greatest Showman and Spice Girls. It insists that all of its classes are suitable for everyone, even […]

November 30, 2018

At the awards do with fizz and ready to dance

Sashay Dance Wins National Award!

Earlier this month the Sashay Dance team travelled down to London for the Last Night of Freedom supplier party and awards evening. Last Night of Freedom (LNoF) are the UKs number 1 hen and stag company specialising in creating the best hen and stag weekends, organising anything from hotels and activities to accessories. We had added excitement for this trip though, as we were nominated for 2 awards – Best National Supplier and The Outstanding Achievement Award. On arrival we were greeted by Butlers in The Buff with Prosecco and garlands from hula girls for their Hawaiian themed party. After […]

October 29, 2017

A dance class for The Haven breast cancer charity

The Pink Flashdance for The Haven! Breast Cancer Awareness Month

We had a groovy morning on Sunday 15th October at The Pink Flashdance event at Yorkshire Dance. This event was held to raise money for The Haven in Yorkshire which supports people affected by breast cancer and a special event for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A total of £650 was raised for The Haven which gave us even more to dance about! Sarah Hough, Director and Founder of Sashay Dance, teaches weekly classes every Friday 3-4pm at The Haven in Leeds and started the event with a Salsa dance lesson. Her classes are always suitable for all, 2 left feet […]

October 10, 2017

A fun corporate dance class event for Leeds Business Week

The ‘Movers and Shakers’ at the Sashay Dance event as part of Leeds Business Week

Networkers at Leeds Business Week were taken out of their comfort zone right from day 1 on Monday 9th October 2017 where they did a Cha Cha Dance Class with Sarah Hough, Director of Sashay Dance. They really did demonstrate that they were the ‘Movers and Shakers’ of the city! The event finished with a mini dance competition where networkers were split into two teams and they had to come up with a routine based on the funky Cha Cha moves they’d been taught. Here at Sashay Dance we can teach anyone to dance in an hour, the class started […]

August 11, 2017

Sashay Dance 1st Birthday Party!

We have just hit our 1st birthday! I can’t actually believe it’s been 1 year, it feels like 5 years with all that’s happened in such a short space of time. I’d like to say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who’s supported Sashay Dance. To celebrate we had a fabulous exclusive party in El Atico of Revolution Call Lane, Leeds. Guests were treated to a pink drinks reception, followed by a dance show, fun Salsa dance class, delicious chocolate birthday cake and a Macarena musical statue dance competition to win some very fabulous prizes from Weetwood Hall, musical statues has never been so intense! Sashay Dance […]

July 28, 2017

Sashay Dance and The Breast Cancer Haven Yorkshire in Leeds

Sashay Dance specialises in fun Salsa, Latin and Ballroom dance classes for events in the Yorkshire area (Leeds, York, Harrogate, Sheffield, Wakefield and Huddersfield) and our mission is to give everyone something to dance about. We are delighted to have partnered up with The Breast Cancer Haven, Yorkshire which is located in Leeds city centre. Breast Cancer Haven is a national charity offering free emotional, physical and practical support to anyone affected by breast cancer from its centres across the country. The Haven offers a wide range of weekly classes for their visitors and every Friday from 8th September 2017 15.00-16.00 we […]

May 15, 2017

Sashay Dance Leeds – A ‘Moving’ Charity Dance Event for Mental Health Awareness Week!

On Saturday 13th May we had a charity dance event for Mental Health Awareness Week in aid of Mind Charity. The event was a massive success with so much support from the local community. We raised £467.80 for Mind Charity and raised a lot of mental health awareness! Every year in the UK 1 in 4 people develop a mental health illness and at this event we were showing that it’s not only ok to talk about mental health it’s ok to dance about it too. We did a 40 minute Sashay Line Latin and Ballroom exercise dance class. Our […]