Tadas Almantas

The main roles of Tadas Almantas are performer, choreographer, dance filmmaker and dance teacher.
Originally from Kaunas, Lithuania, Tadas Almantas had an opportunity to train in contemporary dance techniques with the “AURA dance theatre” under Birute Letukaitė.
Simultaneously Tadas started training ballet technique with Doc. Aleksandras Jankauskas, the ballet master and director of the Kaunas State Musical Theatre. Learning from tradition assisted with building a strong basis for further artistic growth.
Tadas Almantas graduated from the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in 2017 in the modern dance sector under Lina Puodžiukaitė.
Tadas studied at Codarts Rotterdam: University of the Arts Bachelor Dance, yet finished BAdance at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in 2023. Now is further studying in the MACode programme since 2023.
He did an internship with the Budapest Dance Theater Studio under Béla Földi and the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company under Jacopo Godani. Tadas Almantas collaborated with Johannes Wieland at the b12 festival and Artūras Areima theatre in Lithuania during his time in Germany, which worked as an opportunity to learn from the artists in the working field.
Heavily influenced by the visual aesthetics of Stanley Kubrick and Andrey Tarkovsky and the architectural depiction of the body by Rudolf Laban, Tadas Almantas looks for opportunities to create his own work. Having launched an online platform “Experimental Theater of Tadas A” that functions as an online dance theatre, Tadas admires artistic virtuosity in classical movement and superfluous knowledge in the craft of creating aesthetics in nowadays context.
Tadas aims at creating his own artistic work as well as collaborating with artists internationally.