Dancer, choreographer and performance artist Austėja Vilkaitytė (1985) studied art studies at Vytautas the Great University and in 2007 obtained a bachelor's degree, danced at Kaunas Dance Theater "Aura". Studied dance at the Salzburg Experimental Dance Academy SEAD (Austria), the Helsinki Theater Academy TEAK (Finland), the Icelandic Arts Academy LHI in Reykjavik. in 2019 He received a master's degree in choreography from DOCH University in Stockholm.
Vilkaitytė has created about three dozen plays and performances, danced or collaborated with more than a couple of dozen choreographers in various countries. The artist creates in different countries, collaborates with such creators as choreographer duo from Paris Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet ("Les gens d'Uterpan"), Italian artist Alex Cecchetti. in 2012 A. Vilkaitytė together with Lea Vendelbo Petersen (Denmark), Ásrún Magnúsdóttir (Iceland) and Lotta Suomi (Finland) formed the international dance collective "Foreign Mountain". in 2016 she was awarded the Young Artist Award of the Ministry of Culture.
When talking about general problems, A. Vilkaitytė uses autobiographical details and conducts a study of the social, cultural, historical and political environment through experimental expression. In her work, one can recognize the household details of post-Soviet urban residential areas, the results of capitalism, advertising, pop culture, modern cultural trends, elements of Internet culture, as well as the issue of women's identity, independence, and stereotypes imposed by society.