Dance Jobs in Belfast

Teaching and choreography work the length and breadth of Belfast and Northern Ireland — freelance, flexible, paying from £22 an hour and slotted around the performing career you're already chasing.

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Join Our Belfast Team

The Belfast diary just keeps growing — school workshops, weekend hen parties, first-dance choreography and weekly classes, every one of them after professional dancers who can genuinely teach.

Paid Properly

From £22 an hour on weekly classes and £25 on hen parties and wedding choreography — set before you start, paid promptly, and never any chasing of invoices.

Around Your Career

You tell us when you're free and we book into it. Most of our Belfast teachers do somewhere between two and ten hours a week around auditions, contracts and tours — and step back the moment a job lands.

Room to Build

Start a weekly class of your own and we'll market it hard, put paid performance work your way through the shows we run, and let you swap between roles as your range grows.

Positions Available

Three kinds of role — do one or take on all three. Teachers who cover several styles get first dibs on the Belfast timetable.

Hen Party Instructor

From £25/hr

Teach themed routines to hen groups at a central studio or wherever they're staying — the highest-energy, best-paid weekend work we've got.

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

Wedding Dance Choreographer

From £25/hr

Put together first-dance routines with couples across quiet one-to-one lessons — calm, patient teaching matters far more than a showy CV in this one.

  • 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 class in your own style, pull together a regular crowd and build from there — our marketing does the job of filling the room.

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

Current Dance Job Opportunities

Dance teacher jobs and dance teaching work going in Belfast right now — apply for any of the roles listed below.

Position Type Pay
Ballet teacher wanted for adult and children's classes in Belfast Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Street dance instructor needed for classes across greater Belfast Part-time / Freelance From £22 p/h
Salsa teacher required for Latin nights in the city centre Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Contemporary dance teacher for studios in south Belfast Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Hip-hop instructor wanted for Cathedral Quarter classes Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Jazz dance teacher for city-centre studio classes Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Ballroom teacher needed for Belfast evening classes Part-time / Weekend From £22 p/h
Commercial dance instructor for Titanic Quarter studio sessions Part-time / Freelance From £22 p/h
K-pop dance teacher wanted for Queen's Quarter classes Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Tap dance teacher for weekly classes in Belfast Part-time From £22 p/h
Bollywood dance instructor needed across Belfast Part-time / Weekend From £22 p/h
Heels instructor wanted for city-centre classes Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Burlesque dance teacher needed in the Cathedral Quarter Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Wedding dance choreographer needed across Northern Ireland Freelance / Flexible From £25 p/h
Hen party dance instructor wanted for Belfast weekends Part-time / Weekend From £25 p/h

What We Offer & What We Need

What We Offer

  • £22–25+ an hour depending on the role
  • A diary shaped around when you're free
  • Venues around the city centre, Cathedral Quarter and Titanic Quarter
  • Choreography & music handed straight to you for hen work
  • Marketing that puts people on the studio floor
  • Casting shouts off our events roster
  • A crew of working pros just like you
  • Start pretty much immediately

What We Need

  • Solid dance training or equivalent stage experience
  • A teaching qual is a plus, never a dealbreaker
  • Real presence — you can command a room full of strangers
  • Reliability that holds up to a Belfast commute
  • A DBS check for any children's work (we'll help sort it)
  • Public liability cover, or the willingness to arrange it
  • The right to work in the UK

Immediate Start Available

We're hiring across every style and every corner of Belfast and Northern Ireland — if you're based anywhere from the city centre out to Lisburn, Bangor or beyond and can start soon, apply below. Every application gets a personal reply inside 48 hours.

Apply to Teach in Belfast

Fill in the form below and tell us a bit about yourself. Every application is read personally and answered within 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

Prefer email? Send your CV & showreel over to:

jobs@dancecentreuk.co.uk

Your Application

A quick picture of your dance background and when you can work.

Dance Jobs Belfast FAQ

Common questions from instructors weighing up joining the Belfast team.

Do I need a formal teaching qualification to land dance jobs in Belfast?

Nice to have, never required. What lands the role is proper training or real performance experience plus the knack of holding a room. A good few of our best teachers came to teaching through dancing, not through a certificate.

What do dance instructors actually get paid in Belfast?

Weekly classes start at £22 an hour; hen party and wedding choreography starts at £25 an hour. The rate is agreed before every booking, paid on time, and bumped up as you take on more.

Which dance styles are you hiring teachers for in Belfast?

Every one of the twenty styles on our timetable — ballet and ballroom through to street, K-pop and heels — plus hen party instructors and wedding choreographers. Belfast is a busy, growing diary, so teachers who cover several styles book up quickest.

Is this full-time work or freelance?

Freelance and flexible, shaped around what you can offer. Some teachers keep to a single weekly class; others stack classes, weekend hen parties and school workshops into a near-full week. None of it is use-it-or-lose-it.

I still perform and audition — can teaching work around that?

That's precisely who we want. Most of the Belfast team are working performers teaching between contracts. Tell us the shape of your availability and we'll build around it — and put it on hold the week you land a tour.