Our Teachers
The Golden Era team are some of the warmest, most supportive and patient teachers you’ll ever learn from. They’re talented, creative, passionate and inspirational! With such a wide range of different styles, skills and specialties amongst our team, your dream teacher is right here waiting.
Our team welcome absolutely everybody into their classes! So, trans and non binary folk, queer babes, bipoc friends, fat babes, neurodivergent people…. you are all welcomed here with open arms by every single one of our teachers.
If you would like to drop in for a casual to get to know a teacher before signing up for a full term, just get in touch.
Luci James | Studio Founder + Teacher
Luci James dreamt of being a professional dancer and a teacher when she was little and now is living out those dreams. She’s been teaching for almost 14 years and originally started as a private student of Bobbi in this very studio. Luci then started teaching at The Peach Pole Studio where she taught for 12 years and managed for 8. She’s been professionally performing for over ten years as a Burlesque & Pole Showgirl.
Luci’s love will always be for the art of entertainment, she started producing a performance based competition in 2022 called Stage Queen and welcomes all different style of performance, art and dancing. She has competed herself in Miss Pole Dance NSW for 5 straight years and MPD Australia for 2 years running, as well as winning Sexy’s Back Professional Division and 1st Runner up in FloorPlay Professional Division.
Luci’s favourite classes to teach involve building confidence, falling in love with your body, slowing down, connecting not only with yourself but the audience as well. Join her for her iconic Temptress class if you’re looking for a confidence boost and a beautiful community.
Oryx | Teacher
Oryx loves pole dance because it’s a gender diverse, body positive and constantly evolving discipline where everyone can be authentically themselves. The strength, sensuality and subversiveness of pole dance is where Oryx lives.
There is something transcendent when people dance together – unafraid and unapologetic. Oryx is a performer, choreographer & lover of shapes. They have danced solo & as part of ensemble casts at Club Chrome, Sydney Fringe Festival, The Powerhouse Museum, The MCA, Dark Mofo TAS, Sydney World Pride & Mardi Gras.
Paige | Teacher
Paige is an incredible pole dancer with years worth of experience, both as a teacher and as a professional showgirl!
Paige produces her own annual comp called XXXPress, exclusively for strippers & showgirls of a similar nature, supporting and strengthening the industry.
She’s performs regularly on massive stages all over the country, her most recent was performing in Sydney with Snoop Dogg. Paige showcases her incredible strength and flexibility with some wild tricks you didn’t even know were possible! Her friendly and playful nature make her a really fun and high energy teacher, she breaks down her tricks in such detail that everyone can learn from her!
Onyx | Teacher
Onyx started pole dancing in 2015 and has fallen in love with it ever since.
His style is all about flow and movement quality, he has competed numerous times and placed 2nd Runner up in Mr Pole Dance 2020.
His favorite thing about teaching is helping students achieve their goals and finding their confidence while having fun with pole.
Sylvia | Teacher
Sylvia is a lover of fitness, dance and inspiring people to be a better version of themselves. Beside pole dancing, she also dances salsa, Brazilian Zouk and contemporary dance.
She loves the way pole dancing transforms people not just on the outside but also within. She believes that strengthening technique, understanding what works for you and not taking yourself too seriously is a perfect way to progress in Pole.
She is also a full time Pilates instructor.
Basjia | Teacher
Basjia is an iconic performer within Sydneys queer scene. She has been apart of The Sydney Ballroom Scene for over 5 years, winning multiple Grand Prizes in Face, Body and notably Sex Siren. Her sex siren wins can be attributed to her natural sensual energy that exudes from within. She also is 2023’s MX Burlesque Sydney, having won this title for her first time competing, and is currently also teaching Burlesque within Sydney. She has worked within the industry for over 5 years and through this uncovered her love and passion for pole dance and floor play. Having performed for multiple Sydney World Pride events, she has also performed pole at Town Hall, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and numerous Queer led strip and pole events throughout Australia. Basjia has a heavy focus on essence, tapping in to your sensuality, connecting with your body, and feeling confident in yourself. This has been her focus throughout her years of teaching and she continues to encourage any of her students to embrace their individual style through their movement. Her pole style is all about range and you could be learning slow soft pole flow, to chaotic head thrashing punk rap, to booty shaking twerk, there are no limits.
JoJo | Teacher
JoJo has been pole dancing for the last 5 years, she’s been falling in love with dancing over and over again with different teachers and different styles of dance.
She started teaching in 2024, using her muggle life job skills to allow her to share her passion with new dancers.
Alba | Teacher
Alba has been practicing poledance for 5 years, with the last 4 dedicated to experimenting and discovering her own raw and authentic sensual energy. She channels her feminine power, inspired by the origins of pole — the strippers — to express her purest essence. Alba’s main goal is to empower each student to become their own teacher, helping them tap into their intuition and translate it into movement on the pole. Through this journey, she encourages self-expression, confidence, and the freedom to embrace one’s unique sensuality.