The Gold Coast

Gold Coast Arts

Across the Gold Coast, creative life ranges from live theatre, music, dance and cinema at HOTA to community rehearsals, working studios, classes and practical production services. People can sing with an all-ages choir, learn pottery on the wheel, develop drawing and painting skills, dance socially or train in musical theatre and screen acting. The region also has volunteer companies, artist societies, specialist teachers and spaces where professional and emerging makers can develop their work.

Whether you are looking for a performance to enjoy, a class to try, a group to join or a service for your next production, these local organisations offer varied ways to take part.

🎶 Music & Singing

Gold Coast City Choir

This community choir welcomes singers of all experience levels. Public rehearsals offer potential members a chance to visit, while the choir also performs for functions, charity and community events. It is a practical choice for people who want to sing together and contribute to community performances.

Ashmore — Gold Coast Youth Orchestra Building, 7 Community Drive, Ashmore, QLD. ☎ 0493043644 rehearsal and general enquiries.

Gold Coast Eisteddfod

The Gold Coast Eisteddfod organises performing-arts sections across music, dance and drama. Its program includes vocal work, piano, strings, wind and brass, orchestras, bands, ensembles, choral work, speech and drama, as well as solo and group opportunities. Sections also include young people with disability.

Gold Coast. ☎ +61756891651 general enquiries.

🩰 Dance & Performing-Arts Training

Tom's Performance Studio

At Oxenford, purpose-built studios combine instrumental and dance teaching. Lessons cover piano, singing, guitar, bass, ukulele, drums and violin, alongside jazz, tap, lyrical, hip hop, ballet, acro and musical theatre. The mix suits learners who want to build one skill or combine music and movement.

Oxenford — Shop 15, 16 & 17, 131 Old Pacific Highway, Oxenford, Gold Coast, QLD.

Elements Theatre Co.

This Oxenford performing-arts school teaches musical theatre, stage and screen acting, dance, acrobatics and lyrical classes for children, teenagers and adults. It also lists studio hire and private tuition, giving performers and teachers options beyond regular group classes.

Oxenford — 1A Upstairs, 131–135 Old Pacific Highway, Oxenford, QLD 4210. ☎ +61403384053 general enquiries.

National Academy of Performing Arts

Based in Burleigh Heads, this production-based institute teaches musical theatre, stage and film acting, acrobatics, jazz, tap, hip hop, lyrical, contemporary and RAD ballet. Its full-time programs are for students in Years 7–12 and beyond, including school leavers, so the training has a clear senior and post-school focus.

Burleigh Heads — 3 Stevenson Court, Burleigh Heads, QLD 4220. ☎ +61755206000 general enquiries.

Danceology Gold Coast

Danceology offers ballet, hip hop, jazz, tap, heels and adult classes. Its All Abilities Superstars program is designed for students with additional needs, using tailored classes with lowered music and sensory considerations. That specific program sits alongside the school’s broader dance timetable.

Gold Coast.

GC Dancesport

GC Dancesport teaches ballroom, Latin and New Vogue for children, adults and social dancers. Beginner classes make room for first steps, while wedding dance lessons focus on choreography for a particular celebration.

Bundall — 36 Upton Street, Bundall, QLD.

GC Physie & Dance

This APDA physie and dance club combines physie, jazz, contemporary, ballet, lyrical and pilates. Programs include juniors aged 5–12, seniors aged 13+ and adult classes, with Gold Coast locations in Robina and Varsity Lakes.

Robina — Robina State High School, 1 Investigator Drive, Robina, QLD 4226. ☎ 0400220774 general enquiries.

Dance Society by Christie-lee

This adult beginner dance specialist offers themed beginner sessions, dance retreats, wedding choreography, private events and flash mobs. It also provides choreography services, making it relevant both to people learning socially and to clients developing a planned performance.

Gold Coast. ☎ 0431631060 general enquiries.

🎭 Theatre & Performance

HOTA, Home of the Arts

HOTA is a Gold Coast cultural precinct presenting live music, theatre, dance and comedy alongside visual art and cinema. Its range brings performance and screen culture together with visual-art experiences, offering audiences several ways to spend time with creative work in one precinct.

Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast.

Spotlight Theatre

This volunteer-led community theatre in Benowa produces musicals and plays, with youth theatre activity as part of its work. Participation extends beyond acting: people can contribute on stage, backstage, in front of house, costumes or administration.

Benowa — 187 Ashmore Road, Benowa, QLD. ☎ +61755394255 box office; ☎ +61755394700 costume hire.

Tugun Theatre Company

Tugun Theatre Company presents drama, music hall, comedy and one-act plays. The company invites people to audition, volunteer in front-of-house or backstage roles, join as members and support its productions, so involvement can range from performance to practical theatre work.

Tugun — Tugun Village Community Centre, 414 Coolangatta Road, Tugun, QLD 4224.

Thundering Productions

This theatre and film production company presents live theatre around the Gold Coast and surrounding areas and creates short films. Its screen-focused services include actor headshots, showreel production and video editing, linking performance development with recorded material.

Gold Coast and surrounding areas.

🎨 Visual Art, Ceramics & Making

Royal Queensland Art Society Gold Coast

The Broadbeach artist society runs classes and one- and two-day workshops, as well as outdoor Art Fresco sketching and painting sessions. Art in the Park opportunities allow artists to sell work, adding a public and marketplace dimension to its teaching and creative activity.

Broadbeach — 25 Broadbeach Boulevard, Broadbeach, QLD 4218. ☎ +61755629300 general enquiries.

The Gold Coast Art School

This Southport drawing and painting school runs year-round classes, courses and workshops for adults, children and teenagers. Beginners and intermediate students are both catered for, making the program suitable for building foundational skills or continuing an existing practice.

Southport — 1/25 Olympic Circuit, Southport, QLD 4215. ☎ 0404080332 general enquiries.

Elena Valerie

Gold Coast artist Elena Valerie offers oil-painting classes and workshops in her studio. Sessions are described for a range of skill levels, giving painters a focused option for working with oil paint in a class setting.

Gold Coast.

Pot Studios

Pot Studios is a membership-based ceramics studio in Tugun, with courses and workshops for beginners through to experienced makers. Membership adds an ongoing studio connection for people who want to continue developing their ceramic practice rather than attend a single session.

Tugun, Gold Coast.

CeramX

Bill Powell’s school of clay and glass offers pottery classes for varied experience levels and weekend workshops. The active professional pottery studio also provides contract throwing and firing, so it serves both learners and makers seeking specialist production support.

Nerang — 1 Winderadeen Crt, Nerang, QLD 4211. ☎ 0481297266 general enquiries.

Gold Coast Potters Association

This not-for-profit pottery association teaches wheel throwing, hand-building, sculpture and surface decoration. Key-holding members can access the studio, while demonstrations, workshops, communal firings and exhibitions create shared opportunities for learning and showing work.

Benowa, Gold Coast.

📷 Photography & Creative Production

Gold Coast Studio

Gold Coast Studio is a photography and video studio for hire, serving amateur and professional shoots. It has two studio spaces, production facilities and equipment, providing a practical setting for image-making and video production.

Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast.

🤝 Arts Organisers & Community Connections

Gold Coast Theatre Alliance

Gold Coast Theatre Alliance connects Gold Coast and regional creative-arts organisations. Its member-facing activity includes a creative-arts directory, sector information and recognition of volunteer contributions in community arts, helping organisations and participants stay connected across the region.

Gold Coast and regional.

These organisations make it possible to move between watching, learning, rehearsing, making and presenting: sing with a community choir, try a wheel or paintbrush, join a production team, develop a dance practice or prepare work for camera. The mix also leaves room for audiences, volunteers, social dancers, emerging artists and experienced practitioners to find their own level of involvement.

Are you a Gold Coast artist, maker, teacher, performing company, community group or arts-support business? You are warmly invited to add or update your listing so local audiences and creative participants can discover your work.

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