Dance Jobs in Sunderland

Paid teaching and choreography work right across Sunderland and Wearside — freelance, flexible and slotted around the gigs, tours and auditions that already fill your diary. Rates open at £22 an hour.

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Join Our Sunderland Team

The Sunderland books are busy and getting busier. Between weekly classes, Saturday hen parties, first-dance couples and school workshops, we are short of trained dancers who can stand in front of a room and teach.

Paid Properly

£22 an hour to start on weekly classes, £25 on hen and wedding work. The rate is settled before you begin, the money lands on time, and there is nothing to chase afterwards.

Around Your Career

Tell us the hours you can give and we book into them. Plenty of the Sunderland team teach anywhere from a couple of hours to ten a week, dropping right back the moment a contract or tour lands.

Room to Build

Turn a single slot into a full weekly following with our marketing doing the legwork, audition for event and showcase work off our roster, and shift between teaching roles as you go.

Positions Available

Three kinds of role, taken singly or all at once. Whoever covers the widest spread of styles gets first look at the Sunderland rota.

Hen Party Instructor

From £25/hr

Lead themed group routines for hen parties, in a city-centre studio or at their own base — the loudest, best-paid Saturday work we hand out.

  • Routines and music handed to you
  • Sessions run 1 to 1.5 hours
  • Studio, or travel across Wearside
  • You must be free at weekends

Wedding Dance Choreographer

From £25/hr

Shape first-dance routines with couples one-to-one — a calm, patient manner here beats a long list of credits every time.

  • Private one-hour lessons
  • Their song, your timetable
  • We handle the track editing
  • Beginner teaching is a must

Regular Class Teacher

From £22/hr

Take a weekly slot in your own style, gather regulars and grow the class from there — our marketing keeps the room full while you teach.

  • Any of 20 styles on the rota
  • Evening and weekend times
  • Adult and children's groups
  • Promotion handled for you

Current Dance Job Opportunities

Live dance teacher jobs and dance teaching jobs in Sunderland — put your name forward for any row on the list.

Position Type Pay
Ballet teacher wanted for classes near Keel Square Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Street dance instructor needed across Wearside Part-time / Freelance From £22 p/h
Salsa teacher required for Latin classes in Sunderland Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Contemporary dance teacher for central Sunderland studios Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Hip-hop dance instructor wanted, city centre Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Jazz dance teacher for High Street West classes Part-time / Full-time From £22 p/h
Ballroom teacher needed for Sunderland evening classes Part-time / Weekend From £22 p/h
Commercial dance instructor for Sunderland studio classes Part-time / Freelance From £22 p/h
K-pop dance teacher wanted for Sunderland classes Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Tap dance teacher for classes in Sunderland Part-time From £22 p/h
Bollywood dance instructor needed in Sunderland Part-time / Weekend From £22 p/h
Heels instructor wanted for Sunderland classes Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Burlesque dance teacher needed in Sunderland Part-time / Evening From £22 p/h
Wedding dance choreographer needed across Wearside Freelance / Flexible From £25 p/h
Hen party dance instructor wanted, Sunderland weekends Part-time / Weekend From £25 p/h

What We Offer & What We Need

What We Offer

  • £22 to £25+ an hour, set by the role
  • Hours booked to fit your week
  • Studios in the centre and out across Wearside
  • Routines and tracks handed over for hen work
  • Promotion that keeps your class full
  • Audition leads off our events roster
  • A crew of jobbing professionals alongside you
  • Start more or less straight away

What We Need

  • Solid dance training, or the stage miles to match
  • A teaching cert helps but is not the gate
  • The presence to command a room of strangers
  • Turning up reliably, match-day traffic and all
  • A children's DBS check, which we help set up
  • Public liability cover, or the will to arrange it
  • The legal right to work in the UK

Immediate Start Available

We are hiring right now, in every style and every corner of the city. If you live within reach of Sunderland and could pick up work soon, put an application in — each one gets a proper reply inside two days.

Apply to Teach in Sunderland

Complete the form and give us the shape of your dance background. Every application is read by a person, and you will hear back within two days.

Fast reply — a real answer within two days
Start soon — get going the moment you are set
No tie-ins — freelance, with nothing locked down
Any route in — no formal certificate needed

Or send your CV & showreel to:

jobs@dancecentreuk.co.uk

Your Application

Tell us about your dance background and availability.

Dance Jobs Sunderland FAQ

The things instructors tend to ask before signing up to teach with us in Sunderland.

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

Nice to have, but not a must. The job goes to whoever has the training or the stage record and can genuinely command a room. A good few of our teachers came to teaching through performing, not through a certificate.

How much do dance instructors get paid in Sunderland?

Weekly classes open at £22 an hour and hen or wedding choreography at £25. Every rate is fixed before the booking, paid promptly, and nudged up as your workload grows.

Which dance styles are you hiring for in Sunderland?

Every one of the twenty styles we run — ballet, ballroom, street, K-pop, heels and the rest — plus hen instructors and wedding choreographers. The teachers who cover several styles are the ones who fill their diaries first.

Is this full-time work or freelance?

Freelance and flexible, shaped entirely around when you are free. One teacher might keep a single weekly slot while another packs in classes, weekend hens and school workshops. None of it is use-it-or-lose-it.

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

That is precisely the kind of teacher we look for. A lot of the Sunderland team are performers who teach between jobs. Give us your rough availability and we will fit the work to it, then pause it when a tour comes up.