Dance Workshop Leaders - Primary Schools

Dance Workshop Leaders - Primary Schools

West End in Schools Closing date: Tue, 05 Jan 2027

Artform: Performing arts
Role: Teaching
Contract: Hybrid
South West

Wed, 11 Nov 2026 "> published -

Job Summary

West End in Schools are recruiting energetic, confident dance professionals to deliver our dance workshops in primary schools. Work is available across the UK and paid training takes place in London and Manchester. This is a freelance role, which can fit around your other commitments.

Job Description

We're looking for brilliant dancers who want to inspire the next generation. You will have an infectious passion and enthusiasm for the arts, and for storytelling.

You will be confident, passionate and personable, and able to inspire even the most reluctant participant to take part. You will be happy to manage and engage a room of 30 children and maybe up to 200 children in their final performance at the end of the day, if delivering a Dance Today workshop.

You will be a working professional dancer or choreographer with a current dance CV. You must have professional credits in any dance practice, or in musical theatre.

We are always looking for people that reflect our diverse communities, to help us work in new ways and become more relevant to the schools and children we serve. We recognise that this is not yet present in our current workforce, so we particularly welcome and encourage applications from people from diverse backgrounds and life experiences.

Our regular workshops include some story-telling, games and choreography with a performance.

We also offer Dance Today workshops, which are made up of up to 7 two-minute dance pieces, each telling a short part of a story.
You will teach each class a different section and at the end of the day, all the groups congregate in the school hall, and you will coordinate them sharing their work in a celebratory performance that retells the whole story.

A typical day would be:
Travel to a school which could be some distance from home - perhaps staying nearby the night before.
Arrive at a school at 8.30am, start teaching at 9am and finish at 3.15pm. There is usually at least an hour break for lunch.
Lead workshops for class groups of approximately 30 children, throughout the day.
You will be working with children from 4 to 11 years (Reception to Year 6 in England) and occasionally with nursery.

We guarantee to offer at least one paid training day and three days of delivery initially.

Job Requirements

You must either have a recent enhanced DBS check or be happy for us to submit you for one.

You will need good time keeping, planning and organisation skills.

You will deliver the workshops on your own, so need to be a confident and engaging representative of the company to school staff.

You will need to attend one of the three paid training dates we are offering in February.

Manchester: Wednesday 3 February 2027
London: Three choices, either Thursday 4, Tuesday 23 or Wednesday 24 February 2027

We will then offer you individual workshop days.

Many of our drama facilitators are actors in between performing jobs and need to be able to audition. We offer complete flexibility for auditions, and ask that in return you do your best to accept work from us at short notice, if we ask you to, when someone has withdrawn due to an audition.

Job Responsibilities

Contract: Freelance.

Work frequency: We offer work in advance day by day, and you have the option whether to accept each day. You also have the option to withdraw from accepted days if you get an audition or a performing job. We expect to offer you at least 5 days, especially in early March. Typically our teaching artists deliver between 5 and 40 days of work for us each year around their other commitments, for example in between performing jobs.

Rate of Pay:

Workshops paid at £160 per day or £100 per half day.
We pay you on a weekly basis and reimburse your expenses and send a PDF of the self billing invoice every Tuesday.

Training paid at London Living Wage, paid once you first deliver a workshop.

All travel and accommodation expenses are covered from your door to the school, and also to attend training if away from home.

Locations: We deliver work in schools across the UK and are looking for facilitators in all regions.

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Job Overview

  • Job Title: Dance Workshop Leaders - Primary Schools
  • Salary: £30k-£40k
  • Hours: Full time
  • Artform: Performing arts
  • Role: Teaching
  • Contract: Hybrid
  • Closing date: Tue, 05 Jan 2027
  • Location:
    South West

How to Apply

Please submit an application form via our recruitment page linked here.

Please apply before midnight on the 4th January 2027.

  • Contact name: Nigel Godfrey