Dance Workshop Leaders – Primary Schools

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.