WOULD-BE boot scooters were shocked in Hobart when what they thought was a line-dancing class turned out to be pole dancing instead.

Adult eduction instructor Sarah Muir said, not surprisingly, the session was "a disaster", The Mercury reported.

"I tried to see the funny side of it, but I felt sorry for the ladies," she said.



The confusion arose after the course was listed in the Adult Ed program as "Line Dancing Urban Cowboys".



"It was meant to be Hobart's urban cowboys polzotic dance, a special combination of pole and exotic dancing," said Ms Muir.



"When I sent the information to Adult Education they presumed it was line dancing."



And that's exactly what the dozen or so class participants, mainly women, were expecting.



Ms Muir said she was alerted to the mistake in the course description in the Adult Ed guide a couple of weeks ago and told Adult Education that she did not teach line dancing, which she knew nothing about.



"There were obviously some very disgruntled persons, there were some upset people," she said.



Ms Muir told them she knew a line dancing instructor, Debbie Wolfe-Wright, and she would see if she could get her to do the remaining sessions.



Mrs Wolfe-Wright told The Mercury she would take over the course after being "wrangled" by Ms Muir.



Adult Education manager of adult and community education Andrew Norris apologised for any inconvenience or embarrassment caused.



He said the confusion over the course had been corrected with line dancing instructors to take the remaining classes.



People who enrolled in the course and were unhappy with these arrangements could contact Adult Education for a refund.

Read more at The Mercury.

Originally published as Raunchy dance class mix-up