• Danza e Tecnologia. Aterballetto per Brescia Musei. Progetto Double Reality.

CCN/Aterballetto’s virtual-reality weekend

 

Three cities, three events and a single vision: to use dance and immersive technologies to offer new ways of accessing cultural heritage. From 17 to 19 July the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto devotes an entire weekend to virtual reality with a programme spanning Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and the Veneto, consolidating a path of research that began in 2022 and today lies ever more at the heart of CCN/Aterballetto’s work.

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DANSITE – a new gateway to places of culture

At the heart of this path is DANSITE, the project that transforms site-specific choreographic creations into permanent virtual-reality experiences, allowing visitors to relive the dance exactly in the places where it was conceived and created. Funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region through the European Regional Development Fund ERDF-RP 2021-2027 dedicated to the Digital Humanities and the enhancement of cultural heritage, DANSITE offers an innovative model in which technology does not replace the visit but enriches it, providing a new key for interpreting monuments, museums and landscapes.

Friday 17 July – Rocchetta Mattei

As part of Spaesaggi festival

Presentation of the second VR Corner in the Emilia-Romagna Region and of Agogik, a virtual-reality performance created for Rocchetta Mattei.

Official launch of the DANSITE online platform.

Followed by the site-specific performance Opera in bianco

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Friday 17 July – Brescia Musei

As part of the Notte Bianca of the Vittoria Alata

Presentation of Double Reality – Il Monumento e il suo Doppio and of the virtual-reality performances created for Brescia Musei.

Followed by the dance and live-music performance Impromptus. Arie, Danza e Improvvisazioni

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Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 – Lago Film Festival

The weekend devoted to virtual reality will conclude on 18 and 19 July at the Lago Film Festival, the independent film festival in Revine Lago (Treviso), where the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto will present the DANSITE VR Corner format. Using headsets, participants will be able to explore the entire network of immersive experiences created in Emilia-Romagna’s places of culture, freely choosing their own itinerary and experiencing a new way of inhabiting heritage through the language of dance.

With this intensive programme, the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto affirms its role as a laboratory for research into the relationships between the performing arts, technological innovation and cultural heritage. A path that broadens the boundaries of choreographic creation and offers a new idea of cultural engagement, in which dance continues to live on in the places that inspired it.

Published On: 8 July 2026

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  • Danza e Tecnologia. Aterballetto per Brescia Musei. Progetto Double Reality.

CCN/Aterballetto’s virtual-reality weekend

From 17 to 19 July across Rocchetta Mattei, Brescia Musei and the Lago Film Festival. Official launch of the DANSITE platform, a new tool for enhancing cultural heritage through immersive dance

Caracalla Danza 2026

A site-specific initiative from June 26 to 28, with CCN/Aterballetto leading a surprise journey through the famous spaces — and other secret and hidden ones — of the archaeological complex of the Baths of Caracalla, curated by Diego Tortelli. From June 30 to July 5, stage performances are scheduled on the Specchio d'Acqua (Water Mirror).

  • From 2 to 29 March, Aterballetto performs in Italy and on the French Riviera some of the most acclaimed titles from its repertoire, including Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau, Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, and Glory Hall by Diego Tortelli.

From Rome to Naples: Aterballetto’s March tour

From 2 to 29 March, Aterballetto performs in Italy and on the French Riviera some of the most acclaimed titles from its repertoire, including Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau, Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, and Glory Hall by Diego Tortelli.

  • From 1 to 8 March 2026 Dance Week at La Fonderia of CCN/Aterbaletto in Reggio Emilia gives the tribute to the female creativity.

Dance Week. A tribute to female creativity

From 1 to 8 March, Dance Week comes to Fonderia, paying tribute to female creativity through visions, languages, and imaginaries shaped by choreographers and artists capable of questioning the present through plural perspectives.

  • Four events exploring time in dance: from improvisations with an accordion to the tragic fate of Macbeth, from gestures spanning centuries to the talent of new dancers.

Danza in Fonderia in February

Four events exploring time in dance: from improvisations with an accordion to the tragic fate of Macbeth, from gestures spanning centuries to the talent of new dancers.

  • Per la prima volta nei suoi quasi 50 anni di storia, Aterballetto in tournée in Sudafrica dall’8 al 12 novembre, all’interno di ITALIA DANZA.

Aterballetto in South Africa for the First Time

As part of the ITALIA DANZA project, and with the support of the Italian Embassy in Pretoria and the Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria, Aterballetto will perform in South Africa from 8 to 12 November 2025.

  • Siamo orgogliosi di annunciare che il Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto riceverà il Premio Taobuk 2025, nell’ambito del prestigioso Taobuk Festival, in programma a Taormina dal 18 al 23 giugno.

Caracalla Danza

From September 26 to 28 at the Baths of Caracalla, a new project by the Special Superintendency of Rome in collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto comes to life. Guest company: Gauthier Dance. In partnership with Romaeuropa Festival.