Delfos Danza Contemporánea (Delfos Contemporary Dance)

About Delfos Contemporary Dance...
Delfos Danza Contemporánea, founded in 1992 by Mexican choreographers Victor Manuel Ruiz and Claudia Lavista, began with a commitment to create and present original works of contemporary dance and develop a dance space that would foster education, exchange and communication. Today Delfos is recognized as one of the most significant contemporary dance companies of Latin America. Its home base is the Angela Peralta Theater in Mazatlan, Mexico where the company established the Mazatlan Professional School of Contemporary Dance in 1998. The theater also provides a laboratory for the development of new work and a venue for performance.

The aesthetic vision of Delfos and the interpretive strengths of the dancers give the company its unique personality, characterized by physicality, poetry and plasticity, which is reflected in all of the company repertoire. Delfos seeks an intimacy with the art of dance and strives to discover unsuspected worlds within it.

The company has received critical acclaim in Mexico and abroad and has toured throughout the U.S., Europe and Latin America. A very successful tour in the U.S. in the Fall of 2004 with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts in association with the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, took the company to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), the Joyce Theatre in New York City, the University of Arizona, Rhode Island College, Wesleyan University and to Miami through Tigertail Productions. Delfos has received numerous awards including the Mexican National Dance Award (1992, 1997, 2002), Best Dance Group in Mexico and the Artistic Merit Award.

Repertoire
Delfos Danza Contemporánea has an extensive repertoire which includes programs for general audiences, children and families, collaborations with other dance companies as well as staging for opera, television and video. Their themes range from parodies of love, to the grim reality of street children and offer a kind of voyeuristic journey of the interior world of contemporary man and woman.

For more detailed information, please visit the artist's own website: www.delfosdanza.com.

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"Delfos encompasses shifting fashions in a distinctively playful, emotionally gutsy way...'Alone and My Soul' [is] a beautifully unforced tour de force."
-New York Times
"The works formed a stylized landscape of rage and desire...love and violence were never very apart in these dances."
-Associated Press
"Delfos presented... a marvelous show of Mexican seduction."
-La Sicilia, Italy

"Delfos expresses themselves with an unleashed intelligence that makes their dances caustic and raw...in which everything is an allusion yet a forceful presence at the same time."
-Revista Tiempo Libre, Mexico