A group of performers from the shuttered Aspen Santa Fe Ballet company have founded the new contemporary company DanceAspen and will debut new work at the Wheeler Opera House next month.

When the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet announced in March that the organization would be dissolving its dance company after a quarter-century run, it wasn’t just the community at large that suffered. The dancers themselves — already having been without opportunity to perform in a year — were left without many options.

Some moved. Others took whatever jobs were available. Most missed dance.