Dance Jobs in Manchester

Teaching and choreography shifts right across Greater Manchester — freelance hours you pick, starting at £22, slotted around the performing career you're already busy with.

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Join Our Manchester Team

Manchester is one of our busiest patches and the diary only grows — weekly classes, weekend hen dos, school workshops and first-dance couples, every one of them wanting professional dancers who can lead a room.

Proper Pay, No Chasing

£22 an hour on weekly classes, £25 on hen and wedding choreography — nailed down before you begin, paid bang on time, with no invoices to chase.

Slotted Round Your Career

You name the hours, we do the filling. Plenty of the Manchester crew put in two to ten hours a week around auditions, gigs and tours — and everything goes on hold the moment a job lands.

Space to Build Something

Launch your own weekly classes and let our marketing do the pushing, pick up casting leads from our events roster, and move across roles as you broaden your range.

Positions Available

Three kinds of role — take just one or juggle all three. Teachers who cover a spread of styles get first dibs on the Manchester timetable.

Hen Party Instructor

From £25/hr

Take hen groups through a themed routine in a Northern Quarter or city-centre studio, or wherever they happen to be staying — the loudest, best-paid weekend work going.

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

Wedding Dance Choreographer

From £25/hr

Shape couples' first-dance routines in private, one-on-one sessions — a calm, patient manner counts for far more here than a dazzling showreel.

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

Regular Class Teacher

From £22/hr

Head up a weekly class in your strongest style, build a following of regulars from the ground up, then expand — with our marketing packing the room out.

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

Current Dance Job Opportunities

These are the dance teacher and teaching roles we're hiring for across Manchester right now — apply to any listing below.

Position Type Pay
Ballet teacher wanted for adult beginner classes in the Northern Quarter Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Street dance instructor needed for classes across Greater Manchester Part-time / Freelance From £22 p/h
Salsa teacher required for Latin socials near Deansgate, Manchester Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Contemporary dance teacher for city-centre Manchester studios Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Hip-hop dance instructor wanted for Northern Quarter evening classes Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Jazz dance teacher for Manchester studio sessions Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Ballroom teacher needed for evening classes in central Manchester Part-time / Weekend From £22 p/h
Commercial dance instructor for Salford and MediaCity studio classes Part-time / Freelance From £22 p/h
K-pop dance teacher wanted for classes in Manchester Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Tap dance teacher for daytime classes in Manchester Part-time From £22 p/h
Bollywood dance instructor needed near Rusholme, Manchester Part-time / Weekend From £22 p/h
Heels instructor wanted for evening classes in Manchester Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Burlesque dance teacher needed for Manchester classes Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Wedding dance choreographer needed across Greater Manchester Freelance / Flexible From £25 p/h
Hen party dance instructor wanted for Manchester weekends Part-time / Weekend From £25 p/h

What We Offer & What We Need

What We Offer

  • From £22 to £25+ an hour by role
  • A diary shaped around the hours you offer
  • Studios across the Northern Quarter, city centre and Salford
  • Set choreography and music handed to you for hen work
  • Marketing that keeps your classes full
  • Casting leads through our events roster
  • A crew of working performers just like you
  • An immediate start whenever you're ready

What We Need

  • Solid dance training, or stage experience that stands in for it
  • A teaching qualification helps, but it's not required
  • Presence — you can command a room full of strangers
  • Reliability that copes with a Manchester commute
  • A DBS check for children's work — we help you sort it
  • Public liability cover, or the willingness to arrange it
  • The right to work in the UK

Immediate Start Available

Right now we're hiring in all twenty of our styles and every part of Greater Manchester — whether you're in the centre, over in Salford and Trafford, up in Bury or south around Chorlton, drop your application in below if you can begin soon. Every application gets a reply from a real person within 48 hours.

Apply to Teach in Manchester

Tell us a bit about yourself on the form — where you trained, what you can teach and when you're free. Every submission gets read by an actual person, and we reply inside 48 hours.

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

Or send your CV & showreel to:

jobs@dancecentreuk.co.uk

Your Application

Tell us about your dance background and availability.

Dance Jobs Manchester FAQ

The questions dancers most often put to us before joining the Manchester team.

Do I need a teaching qualification to teach for you in Manchester?

Nice to have, but never something we demand. What lands the work is genuine dance training or a solid record on stage, plus a knack for commanding a room — a good few of our top teachers stepped off tour and learned to teach on the job.

What does teaching for you in Manchester pay?

Regular weekly classes pay upwards of £22 an hour, and hen or wedding choreography from £25. We fix the figure in writing ahead of each job, pay it bang on time, and bump it up as your hours grow.

Which styles are you hiring teachers for in Manchester?

Pretty much the lot — all twenty on the books, from ballet and ballroom over to street, heels, K-pop and Bollywood, plus hen-party sessions and wedding-couple choreography. The broader your spread of styles, the faster a Manchester week fills up for you.

Is this salaried work or freelance?

Freelance from top to bottom, and how much you take on is up to you. Some are content with one class a week; others build a near-full diary out of school sessions, weekend hens and daytime classes. You're only ever tied to whatever you've booked in.

I'm still gigging and auditioning — can teaching fit around it?

Spot on the sort of dancer we want. A big chunk of the Manchester team perform for a living and teach around it — give us your rough availability, we'll book inside it, and the classes go quiet the week a tour or contract takes over, then start back up after.