We sit down for a whisky 🥃 on a sunny Sunday afternoon with Jenn. She’s wearing neon lightning bolt earrings and blasting 80s tunes from her vibey lounge. There are lots of plant babies 🌵 and her cat is demanding our attention 🐱 As dog people, we are very happy with this situation. Though we feel the cat senses something.
Read More89% of New Zealanders want to work from home at least some of the time* – we're another draw card to encourage your team to want to work from the office a little more regularly!
Read More“The world would be a better place with more chocolate lava cakes! 🍫There’s some goodies out there but I’d love it if the market really grew in this space.”
Read MoreWe’ve had some recurring themes in the messaging coming through this week and we wanted to touch base on them here. We just want to say – we hear you, we feel you, we love you 👊🙌👏
Read MoreWe sit down with the excellent, energetic, exquisite Emily Keddell who currently teaches in Eastbourne for a quick fire round. Get to know her on the blog before you enjoy her epic-ness in person – without further adieu…
Read MoreDance occupies an important place in the social structure of all human cultures throughout history. Dance as a form of fitness is not a fad. It’s not a trend. In fact, there’s a scientific reason to explain why thrusting feels so god-damn good.
Read MoreAnd it just reminded us of why we’ll never break up with you.
Read MoreThe world would be a better place with the patriarchy buried six feet under. Oh and coordination level: Orangutan 🐒
Read MoreSweat With Pride has got to be one of the best places to invest your efforts right now. It's a way to give back to a community that needs collective focus and ensure your health and wellbeing is prioritised too.
Read MoreIt was a pretty bold move for us though; suddenly our classes weren’t so mysterious, we wouldn’t be able to manage the atmosphere, AND people weren’t only filming themselves, they were proactively sharing videos of themselves too. So essentially, our approach and execution was turned upside down. We thought our community was awesome. We were wrong. It’s fucking awesome.
Read MoreIn times of trouble, you realise what really matters. For us, that's you – our community. We really, really care about keeping everyone who comes to our classes safe. Even though we're operating within the guidelines, and this decision breaks our hearts, our priority is to do our part to fight Covid-19.
Read MoreOur priority is to ensure that our team and community is safe. We'll continue to follow guidelines from NZ Government and the Ministry of Health, keep an eye on the situation and be in touch if our schedule becomes affected. But for the time being - we are still your go-to if you need 45 minutes to forget about the stressful stuff in the world and enjoy the epic (and cheesy) stuff instead.
Read MoreWe got featured on Jetstar’s blog! Air NZ’s Kia Ora magazine in next am-I-right ;)
Read MoreWe’re hoping to raise $4K again for The Neonatal Trust and Youthline. How? Book a ticket to our dance class at San Fran on the 15th December 2019, from 6.30pm and you’ll be contributing directly to our charities of choice in an increasingly challenging fundraising climate.
Read MoreShut Up & Dance in three words? Go: Fabulous, incomparable, community 🥰
Read MoreOur friends and clients and participants and community gave us one of the most thoughtful and coolest gifts we could have ever imagined to receive. At our “Clair-and-Lesa-are-going-to-figure-out-how-to-be-mums-now-brb” party, there was one of the best dance performances we ever did see.
Read MoreWhat would you do if you won the lotto? “Buy a farm and take in all the rescue animals that need homes. I’m actually banned from places like pet shops and animal shelters as I bring home too many animals.”
Read MoreAs our namesake implies, we’re all about walking the talk. We realised we’d been telling our participants and our community things like “we don’t know what we’d do without you!” and “thank you so much for loving our classes and supporting small business” and also “OMG you’re amazing!” because over our past three years of operation, we’ve discovered some insanely cool things about our community and what the people in it get up to. They’re singers, they’re advocates for the environment, they’re politicians, they’re mothers, but most of all, they’re passionate, they’re authentic and they’re shutting up and doing the mahi.
Read MoreAfter attending our first ever six week course back in 2016, Karli’s been looking for an excuse to move back to NZ and keep dancing. Now she’s back and she’s the newest unicorn to join our amazing team instructors. Get to know our American import a little better…
Read MoreAfter being one of our most dedicated customer for 2+ years, Rewa took the plunge and signed herself up for the Shut Up & Dance Instructor Training. Now she’s thrusting her way to a class near you…
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