Until 2022 he collaborated with CSC and Operaestate Festival in Bassano del Grappa, curating dance programmes and developing international projects, supported by the EU Creative Europe, Erasmus + and other Programmes. For the Municipality of Bassano del Grappa, and its citizens, he developed Dance Well – Movement research for Parkinson and has been coordinating its national and international growth until 2025.
Since 2025, in collaboration with the Municipality of Vicenza, e20danza and the city health system, he has developed Future Moves a programme of dance practices in museums for teenagers dealing with depression.
He is a member of CCW Welfare Cultural Center, and the author of the book Nigel Charnock published in 2009 by L'Epos.
In 2015-18 he was Artistic Director of Balletto di Roma. Prior to working for dance organisations, Roberto was a contemporary dancer.
At NEMO’s European Museum Conference 2025, Roberto Casarotto will join the panel “Collective Care: Museums, communities, and the practice of wellbeing” on Monday, 27 October.
Presentation abstract:
Dance and Brain Health in Museums
The session will focus on the development of dance practices for people living with Parkinson's, teenagers with psychological fragility and depression, cancer-survivors and mixed groups of citizens in museums and in dialogue with art works. Approaches and practices will be described and shared, along with the experience of working cross-disciplinary (dance-science-heritage and visual art), intergenerationally and across cultures in several programmes of dance in museums across Italy, Europe, Japan and Hong Kong.
