Dance Jobs in Durham

Teaching and choreography work right across County Durham — freelance shifts that flex around your gigs, paid from £22 an hour, slotting neatly into the performing life you already lead.

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Join Our Durham Team

The Durham diary rarely stops growing. Term-time classes, Saturday hen bookings, first-dance choreography and workshops in local schools all call for trained dancers who can also hold a class.

Paid Properly

£22 an hour to start on regular classes, £25 on hen and wedding choreography. The rate is settled before you begin, lands in your account on schedule, and never leaves you chasing an invoice.

Around Your Career

You tell us when you are free and we book into it. Plenty of the roster teach anywhere from a couple of hours to ten in a week, fitting it between castings and touring, and we simply pause you when a contract lands.

Room to Build

Grow a class of your own with our marketing quietly filling the seats, get first shout on casting that comes through the events side, and shift between roles as your range widens.

Positions Available

Three kinds of role here — pick one or juggle all of them. Whoever teaches across the most styles gets first refusal on the Durham timetable.

Hen Party Instructor

From £25/hr

Lead themed routines for hen groups, either in a studio near the Market Place or wherever they are staying — the loudest, best-paid few hours on the weekend rota.

  • 38+ themes, choreography provided
  • 1–1.5 hour sessions
  • Studios & come-to-you across County Durham
  • Weekend availability essential

Wedding Dance Choreographer

From £25/hr

Shape first dances for couples one-to-one, in private — the patience to reassure two nervous people counts for far more here than a glittering CV.

  • 1-hour private lessons
  • Your schedule, their song
  • Song editing support provided
  • Beginner-teaching experience essential

Regular Class Teacher

From £22/hr

Take a weekly slot in your own style, gather regulars, and let it snowball into a fuller timetable while our marketing keeps the room topped up.

  • 20 styles on the timetable
  • Evening & weekend slots
  • Adults & children's classes
  • Marketing support included

Current Dance Job Opportunities

Dance teacher vacancies open across Durham this week — scan the list and apply for any role that suits you.

Position Type Pay
Dance teacher wanted for ballet classes in Durham Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Street dance instructor needed across County Durham Part-time / Freelance From £22 p/h
Salsa teacher required for Latin classes in Durham Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Contemporary dance teacher for Durham studios Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Hip-hop dance instructor wanted, Durham city centre Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Jazz dance teacher for cathedral-side classes Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Ballroom teacher needed for Durham evening classes Part-time / Weekend From £22 p/h
Commercial dance instructor for Durham studio classes Part-time / Freelance From £22 p/h
K-pop dance teacher wanted for Durham classes Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Tap dance teacher for classes in Durham Part-time From £22 p/h
Bollywood dance instructor needed in Durham Part-time / Weekend From £22 p/h
Heels instructor wanted for Durham classes Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Burlesque dance teacher needed in Durham Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Wedding dance choreographer needed across Durham Freelance / Flexible From £25 p/h
Hen party dance instructor wanted, Durham weekends Part-time / Weekend From £25 p/h

What We Offer & What We Need

What We Offer

  • £22–25+ per hour by role
  • Diary built around your availability
  • Venues across Durham city and the county
  • Choreography & music provided for hen work
  • Marketing that fills your classes
  • Casting opportunities from our events roster
  • A team of working professionals like you
  • Immediate start available

What We Need

  • Professional dance training or equivalent experience
  • Teaching qualification a bonus, not a barrier
  • Presence — you can hold a room of strangers
  • Reliability that survives Durham's hills and cobbles
  • DBS check for children's work (we help arrange)
  • Public liability insurance (or willingness to get it)
  • Right to work in the UK

Immediate Start Available

Recruitment is open in every style and every pocket of the county right now — if you live somewhere in County Durham and could begin shortly, put your name in below. Nobody waits longer than 48 hours for a proper reply from us.

Apply to Teach in Durham

Send the form across with a few lines about you. A real person here reads each one, and you will hear something back inside two days.

Quick response — a personal reply within 48 hours
Immediate start — begin as soon as you are ready
No long contracts — flexible freelance arrangement
All backgrounds — formal qualifications not required

Prefer email? Send a CV and showreel over to:

jobs@dancecentreuk.co.uk

Your Application

A quick sketch of where you have danced and when you can teach.

Dance Jobs Durham FAQ

The things instructors usually want to pin down before joining the Durham roster.

Is a formal teaching qualification needed to apply in Durham?

It helps, but we never insist on it. The deciding factors are real training or stage experience plus the confidence to command a room. A good few of the people we rate most picked up teaching through performing, rather than through a certificate.

What does the pay actually come to for instructors here?

Weekly classes open at £22 an hour and hen or wedding choreography at £25. Every figure is settled before you take the booking, arrives on schedule, and climbs as your load and standing build.

What dance styles are you recruiting for around Durham?

The whole timetable of twenty, ballet through to street, K-pop, heels and everything between, plus hen instructors and wedding choreographers. Cover more than one and your week fills up quicker than anyone else's.

Is this a salaried job or freelance work?

It is freelance, shaped entirely by when you can teach. One person might hold a single weekly slot; another threads together classes, Saturday hens and school sessions into an almost full week. None of it is lose-it-if-you-skip-it.

I still perform and audition — will teaching work around it?

That describes most of the roster already. The bulk of the Durham team are gigging performers filling the gaps between jobs with teaching. Send us the shape of your week and we fit the work in, then step back the moment a tour comes calling.