Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

The Academy of Performing Arts is the biggest and oldest Czech university level school of drama, film, TV, multi-media, music and dance studies. Theatre Faculty covers a wide range of disciplines: acting, directing, puppetry, dramaturgy, scenography, theatre-in-education, theatre management and theory and criticism. The school educates future theatre professionals, specialists in the field of culture, communications, media etc. The school theatre DISK is a regular repertory theatre, final year students playing some 10 productions monthly. Dramatic Arts on the MA level are available in English language. International students can study at DAMU in the framework of European exchange programmes or enrol as individual short-term students. Film and TV School has been training practically all filmmaking talents creating Czech film for over 60 years. FAMU – with its traditions of artistic mentoring under top practitioners, its excellent technical support, and its deep curriculum spanning ten departments devoted exclusively to audio-visual media – is now open to foreign students as never before with short-term courses, exchanges, and world-class Masters Programmes available in the English language. Music and Dance Faculty maintains and develops the Czech musical and Dance traditions. In the field of music it is more focused on classic while in dance is more reflecting modern trends. Its professors belong to exceptional artistic personalities. It emphasizes high quality of its graduates as professional soloists and performers. The individual fields of study are offered through eleven departments: Composition, Conducting, Voice and Opera, Keyboard Instruments, String Instruments, Wind/Brass Instruments, Music Theory and History, Dance, Pantomime, Musical Sound and Percussion Instruments.