DanceAspen Celebrates One Year of Graceful Moves

When it comes to lifting your mood and filling your soul, there’s nothing like watching a stunning dance performance. The movement of a dancer’s body in a rhythmic way for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the movement itself— is absolutely breathtaking.

After the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet performing company dissolved, which had been an integral part of the Aspen community and an impactful leader in the global dance scene for 25 years—it came as a major loss not only for the community, but also the artists who had worked and trained their entire lives to perform with a company of such prestige. This news left the dancers with two options; stay in Aspen and retire from their professional dancing careers or move and leave behind the lives and communities they built in Aspen. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, the dancers banded together to create a third option and DanceAspen was born.