Find an IBBFA-Certified Barre Instructor
Tell us about the role, location, and schedule. IBBFA can share your opportunity with potentially relevant credential holders, or you can search the public instructor directory directly.
How the Matching Service Works
Describe the opportunity
Tell us the role type, location, schedule, population, and experience you need.
IBBFA shares the request
We may share the opportunity with potentially relevant credential holders based on the information provided.
You evaluate and hire
Your studio interviews, auditions, checks references, verifies credentials, and makes the final hiring decision.
What IBBFA Does, and What Your Studio Still Decides
This page is a recruiting service, not a substitute for your hiring process. IBBFA may help surface potentially relevant candidates, but the studio remains responsible for evaluating fit for the actual role.
IBBFA may help with
- Sharing the role with relevant credential holders
- Providing a public IBBFA credential-status record
- Directing you to the instructor directory
- Providing hiring and audition guidance
Your studio remains responsible for
- Interviews, auditions, references, and background checks
- CPR/AED, insurance, and legal requirements
- Role-specific experience and population fit
- Compensation, supervision, and final hiring decisions
Which IBBFA Credential Level Fits the Role?
Credential level is one data point. Experience, references, specialty preparation, and live audition performance should also support the hiring decision.
Certified Barre Instructor
The professional foundation credential. CBI may be appropriate for class-instructor roles when the candidate's experience, references, safety credentials, and audition performance support the hire.
Principal Instructor
An advanced, board-reviewed credential requiring CBI, relevant teaching experience, at least two of four specialties, Board Preparation, and a live Board Review conducted by a Master Instructor. It may be relevant for lead-instructor or program-director roles.
Master Instructor
IBBFA's highest earned credential. Master candidates complete Principal, all four specialties, a practicum, the Master examination, and examiner preparation. Current authorization and role-specific experience should still be confirmed.
Prefer to Search Directly?
Search the IBBFA Instructor Directory
Browse active directory profiles by location, credential level, and listed specialty. Then verify the individual credential record before making a hiring decision.
Search the directory →Need Help Evaluating Candidates?
Use the complete studio hiring guide
The separate educational guide covers credential verification, interview questions, scope-of-practice scenarios, live auditions, room-teaching evaluation, red flags, and sample job-description language.
Read the Full Hiring GuideNeed to Prepare Existing Staff?
When the local candidate pool is limited, existing instructors may pursue the IBBFA foundation credential and relevant specialty preparation.
Explore IBBFA Credential Pathways
The CBI pathway includes a 35-hour curriculum, a 60-question written examination drawn from a 400-question bank, and a live practical examination conducted by an approved IBBFA Proctor or Master Instructor using a 155-point rubric.