Dance Instructor

Dance Teacher Finder LLC; Brighton (CO); On-site; USD 35,817 - 46,838; Part time

Job summary

Stage Images Dance Studio is seeking a Dance Instructor to lead classes from youngest movers to advanced performers. You will own your classroom, ensuring safety, structure, energy, and growth, reporting to the studio director.

Responsibilities include creating engaging, curriculum-aligned lessons, maintaining classroom authority, and tracking student progress. You will choreograph for shows, support events, and maintain professional communication with families and staff.

Qualifications

• Experience teaching or leading groups of children (dance, education, camps, or coaching).
• Dance training adequate to teach assigned levels safely and correctly.
• Reliable availability matching the schedule below.
• Clean background check.
• Preferred: training in multiple genres, recital or production experience, early childhood experience

Responsibilities

• Teaching and Classroom Leadership: Lead safe, structured, engaging classes that follow appropriate curriculum and lesson plans
• Hold calm classroom authority: clear expectations, warm corrections, set boundaries
• Deliver age-appropriate instruction and corrections for every level you teach
• Track each performer’s skills progression and celebrate growth
• Performance and End of Year Show Readiness: Choreograph and prepare your classes for Winter Show and End Of the Year Show
• Build performance confidence progressively through the season
• Support studio events, dress rehearsals, and production weeks as scheduled
• Community and Professionalism: Greet families warmly and communicate professionally at drop-off and pick-up
• Arrive early, prepared, with music and lesson plan ready, every class
• Communicate proactively with the Artistic Director using Slack
• Take weekly attendance and note any behavioral issues, positive interactions, and other behavior
• Protect and model Stage Images culture and values

Skills

Teaching experience

Dance training

Reliable availability

Background check

Multigenre training

Job description

Do you remember the teacher who made you feel like you could do anything? Be that person. At Stage Images, our instructors do more than teach steps: they build confident, kind, capable young humans, one class at a time.

About Us

We provide intentional, technique-driven training within a supportive, community-focused environment for dancers ages 2.5 through adult. At Stage Images Dance Studio, our faculty is made up of passionate, experienced educators who are committed to developing dancers as artists, athletes, and individuals. Each team member brings a unique blend of training, expertise, and mentorship – ensuring our dancers receive thoughtful, age-appropriate instruction in a supportive and professional environment.

Your Role

As a Dance Instructor, you will lead classes across all levels, from our youngest movers to advanced performers. You own your classroom: the safety, the structure, the energy, and the growth of every performer in it. You will report to either studio director.

Key Responsibilities

Teaching and Classroom Leadership:

• Lead safe, structured, engaging classes that follow appropriate curriculum and lesson plans
• Hold calm classroom authority: clear expectations, warm corrections, set boundaries
• Deliver age-appropriate instruction and corrections for every level you teach
• Track each performer’s skills progression and celebrate growth

Performance and End of Year Show Readiness:

• Choreograph and prepare your classes for Winter Show and End Of the Year Show
• Build performance confidence progressively through the season
• Support studio events, dress rehearsals, and production weeks as scheduled

Community and Professionalism:

• Greet families warmly and communicate professionally at drop-off and pick-up
• Arrive early, prepared, with music and lesson plan ready, every class
• Communicate proactively with the Artistic Director using Slack
• Take weekly attendance and note any behavioral issues, positive interactions, and other behavior
• Protect and model Stage Images culture and values

Qualifications

• Experience teaching or leading groups of children (dance, education, camps, or coaching)
• Dance training adequate to teach assigned levels safely and correctly
• Reliable availability matching the schedule below
• Clean background check
• Preferred: training in multiple genres, recital or production experience, early childhood experience

What We Are Looking For

We hire humans who nurture first, professionals who execute second, and technical experts third. A warm, coachable teacher with growing technique will always beat a brilliant technician who is cold with kids. We are looking for teachers that consider the whole human, not just the dancer.

• Contemporary, Lyrical, and or Modern
• Jazz
• Hip hop
• Early Childhood Dance
• Competition Choreography and Technique
• Acro/Tumbling

This is not the right fit if you…

• Want a drop-in gig where you teach your own material and leave
• Care more about choreography awards than about the child in front of you
• Are not consistently available: our performers count on seeing your face every week
• Bristle at feedback or structured curriculum
• See younger or beginning classes as a stepping stone instead of the real work

Schedule

• Monday – 4:30-7:30 pm (mainly contemporary/lyrical)
• Tuesday – 4:30-7:30 pm (mix of hip hop and jazz)
• Wednesday 4:30-8:30 pm (mix of ballet and contemporary)
• Saturday 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (beginning jazz, beginning tap, and early childhood dance)

Compensation

We start at $30, depending on experience and genres taught. Rate negotiable.

Season Details

Our season runs August through June, ending in Gala (recital). Summer camps and intensives offer additional teaching opportunities. Key commitments include dress rehearsals, Winter Show, Gala week, and Picture Week.

Why Join Us

• A collaborative, supportive team culture: no studio politics, no spotlight wars
• The chance to shape confident, kind young performers and watch them flourish
• We believe dance is for every body, providing an inclusive environment
• Respectful of every dancer, irregardless of committment and level

How to Apply

Email your resume to [e-mail] with a short note (or a 2-minute video) telling us about a teacher who changed your life and what you took from them into your own teaching. Applications without this step will not be reviewed.

If you would like to apply on Indeed, please upload the resume here and send in a short video or note replying to the prompt above.