Balletto di Roma has for several decades promoted the production and dissemination of Italian dance in Europe and around the world, with a repertoire that is today attentive to innovation and research, grounded in the history and tradition that have made it famous.

It was established in 1960 from the artistic partnership between two Italian dance icons: Franca Bartolomei and Walter Zappolini. Over the course of its 62 years of existence, it has seen a succession of prestigious collaborations and multiple creative souls, which have contributed to the growth of production activity both in terms of quantity and quality of the works staged, with growing public success. Over time, the Rome-based Company has built a production model that is unique in Italy, aimed at preserving the repertoire and renewing it by supporting choreographic creativity and maintaining the high technical and interpretive level of the dancers.