The Delfos Company was founded in 1992 by Mexican choreographers and dancers Claudia Lavista and Víctor Manuel Ruiz, with the aim of opening a space for creation, exchange, training and communication through contemporary dance.
The company is a laboratory of moving images and emotions, whose aesthetic vision has given it a particular stamp that is characterized by the significance of the movement and the poetics contained in each of his works.
His work has been praised by critics and presented in countries such as Canada, the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Panama, Peru, Colombia, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Korea, Singapore, South Africa and Mexico.
Throughout his career he has won multiple awards among which stand out: the National Dance Award in 1992, 1997 and 2002, the Award as Best Dance Group in Mexico, the recognition of Artistic Merit in Bento-Brazil and the Prize of the Public to the Best Show at the International Dance Festival of San Luis among others. In 2004 he received the National Dance Project from the New England Foundation for the Arts for a tour of the United States that included a season at the Joyce Theater in New York.
In 1998 he founded with the support of the H. Ayuntamiento de Mazatlán, the Professional School of Contemporary Dance of Mazatlán (EPDM), which offers the Bachelor of Dance. The EPDM received the Raúl Flores Canelo Prize in 2008 for its pedagogical contributions to the formation of new generations.
In 1999, Delfos was invited to perform in the cultural activities of the Panamerican Games in Canada.
In 2007, he received recognition from the Artes América organization of the University of Texas-E.U.
In 2004, 2007 and 2009 due to his career and artistic level, the company receives from the Program for the Strengthening of Performing Arts “Mexico en Escena”, awarded by the National Council for Culture and the Arts to the best artistic projects of the country.
The company has maintained a constant interest in carrying out collaborative projects with choreographers and creators of other artistic disciplines, which has allowed it to work alongside prominent national and foreign artists in various stage productions.
Delfos and EPDM are recognized as two of the most important contemporary dance projects in Latin America, and the company is a resident of the Ángela Peralta Theater in Mazatlán, Mexico.
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