Dance Jobs in York

Teaching and choreography roles the length of York and the Vale of York — set your own freelance hours, earn from £22 an hour, and build it all around the performing career you are already running.

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Join Our York Team

There is rarely a quiet week in York — regular classes, weekend hen dos, first-dance coaching and school workshops keep coming in, and all of them need professional dancers who can teach as confidently as they perform.

Paid Properly

Teaching starts at £22 an hour and choreography for hens and weddings at £25. You will know the figure before the first session, it reaches you on time, and there is never an invoice to chase down.

Around Your Career

You decide when you are free; filling those slots is our job. A typical York teacher clocks anywhere from a couple of hours to ten in a week, fitting them around castings, contracts and touring, and drops everything the instant a bigger gig calls.

Room to Build

Grow a weekly class of your own with our marketing doing the legwork, snap up casting leads from the events roster, and slide between roles as you add strings to your bow.

Positions Available

Three roles to choose from — do one, or juggle all three. Whoever teaches across multiple styles gets first look at the York timetable.

Hen Party Instructor

From £25/hr

You take a hen group and teach them their themed number start to finish, in a central studio or at whatever base they have booked for the weekend — easily the most fun and best-paid weekend work on our list.

  • 38+ themes, choreography provided
  • 1–1.5 hour sessions
  • Studios & come-to-you across the Vale of York
  • Weekend availability essential

Wedding Dance Choreographer

From £25/hr

You coach couples through their first dance in private, just the two of them and you — warmth and patience matter far more in this role than any dazzling list of credits.

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

Regular Class Teacher

From £22/hr

Take a regular weekly slot in your own style, build up a loyal group and let it grow from there — the marketing that fills the room is on us.

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

Current Dance Job Opportunities

Live dance teacher and dance teaching roles right across York and the Vale of York — pick any position from the list below and apply.

Position Type Pay
Dance teacher wanted for ballet classes in York Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Street dance instructor needed across York & the Vale of York Part-time / Freelance From £22 p/h
Salsa teacher required for Latin classes in York Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Contemporary dance teacher for York studios Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Hip-hop dance instructor wanted, central York Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Jazz dance teacher for Fulford & Bishopthorpe classes Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Ballroom teacher needed for York evening classes Part-time / Weekend From £22 p/h
Commercial dance instructor for York studio classes Part-time / Freelance From £22 p/h
K-pop dance teacher wanted for York classes Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Tap dance teacher for classes in York Part-time From £22 p/h
Bollywood dance instructor needed in York Part-time / Weekend From £22 p/h
Heels instructor wanted for York classes Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Burlesque dance teacher needed in York Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Wedding dance choreographer needed across York Freelance / Flexible From £25 p/h
Hen party dance instructor wanted, York 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 York and the Vale of York
  • 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 whatever the buses and traffic do
  • 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

Hiring is live across all twenty styles and every pocket of York and the Vale of York right now. If you are local and ready to begin shortly, send your application below — a real person responds to every one within 48 hours.

Apply to Teach in York

Send the form over with a few lines about yourself. A real person reads every application and replies 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

Rather email? Send a CV and showreel to:

jobs@dancecentreuk.co.uk

Your Application

Just the essentials: what you dance and the hours you could cover.

Dance Jobs York FAQ

Common questions from instructors thinking about joining the York team.

Do I need a teaching qualification to apply for dance jobs in York?

It helps, but we have never made it a requirement. The job goes to whoever brings real training or stage experience and can command a room full of strangers. A fair number of our strongest teachers came to teaching through performing, never the reverse.

How much do dance instructors get paid in York?

A standard class starts you at £22 an hour, and hen or wedding choreography at £25. Every rate is agreed up front, the money turns up when it should, and we revisit it as your workload grows.

Which dance styles are you hiring for in York?

The whole timetable is open — all twenty styles, ballet and ballroom across to street, K-pop and heels — with hen party and wedding roles alongside. Anyone comfortable teaching more than one style tends to have the fullest week.

Is the work full-time or freelance?

It is freelance and it flexes to suit you. One teacher might keep a single weekly class; another might string together classes, weekend hens and school workshops into a nearly full week. None of it is ever use-it-or-lose-it.

I perform and audition — can teaching fit around that?

Exactly the kind of person we are after. A good share of the York roster are performers who fit teaching between jobs. Send over how your availability tends to look and we shape the work to it — then park it whenever a tour comes in.