Become a Salsa Teacher

At Havana Salsa, we believe that passion and purpose should go hand in hand. If you love Cuban Salsa and enjoy sharing that energy with others, why not turn it into an opportunity to earn?

We’re always looking for enthusiastic dancers who want to take the next step, from student to teacher, mentor, and more. As a Havana Salsa teacher, you’ll:

✨ Earn while you dance – Get paid to do what you love.

✨ Grow your skills – Receive full training, guidance, and support.

✨ Inspire others – Help new students discover their rhythm and confidence.

✨ Be part of the family – Join a vibrant, supportive, and fun-loving community.

Whether you want a flexible side income or dream of building a career in Salsa, Havana Salsa gives you the tools and pathway to make it happen.

Why Havana Salsa?

• Learn from a Cuban-founded established salsa brand
• 16+ years of Havana Salsa
• Join a growing UK-wide dance community
• Professional teacher training & development
• Opportunities to teach across multiple locations
• Progress through our teacher pathway
• Opportunities beyond teaching: events, festivals, workshops, ambassadors and more

Teacher assessment days run continually throughout the year; we are always on the lookout for teachers with potential to join our growing team, so if you’re interested, take the first step on that teaching journey, apply, and we’ll be back in touch with the next steps and assessment day schedule. For more information, get in touch. 

You don’t have to be a professional teacher or dancer to apply, we have that bit covered.

Havana Salsa Teacher Assessment: (we require candidates to have danced and led Cuban Salsa for 1 year as a minimum. No previous teaching experience is essential but will be advantageous).

We will be assessing the following:

Your training will be led by a Havana Salsa Senior Specialist – one of Havana Salsa’s best Salsa teachers. Every “Senior Specialist” has been handpicked by Rodolfo – the (creator and founder of the Havana Salsa programme) for their extensive dance experience.

Our Senior Specialists go through a comprehensive training process, and have the tools to prepare you to kill your classes with confidence.

Learn how to teach the basic steps to both lead and follow, and learn how to teach the basic steps in other Latin rhythms for warmup purposes, such as merengue, reggaeton and bachata.

Using the Havana Salsa formula, you will learn how to hold and teach your very own class, what to teach week on week, and how to teach it.

You will get access to professional resources, experience, and techniques to help you teach confidently, build rapports with your students, and deliver (in some cases) life changing skills.

You will also receive practical one on one training with a Senior Specialist for your first practical 7 week classes with real students.

The Teacher Training Day courses carry a fee of £60 +VAT payable on or before the day of training.

You need to have filled in the application form below to attend a training day and have met the minimum criteria of a year of dancing and leading Cuban Salsa. If you havn’t filled this in and just turn up, you will not be allowed to take part.

Applications are now open for our teacher assessments for 2026.

If you would like to join the Havana Salsa team, please complete all fields in the form and provide as much detail as possible in the dance experience and comments fields.