Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) is an internationally recognized higher education institutions, which trains artists for a professional career in music, theatre, dance, and film. Specializing in art education, the Academy also offers the didactics of music disciplines, art management and art research studies, which combined with artistic and creative practice make the Academy’s profile distinguished. Every year the Academy hosts about four hundred concerts, competitions, festivals and dance events, that are open to public, free-entrance.
The first course for actors-dancers was put on at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 1998. Since 2015, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre has a Department of Dance and Movement (The Faculty of Theatre and Film).