With the work Óxido and Minimal they celebrate 30 years on stage
There they are, it is them, they survived, they are still alive on the stage and they are moving, you can hear the knock-tock of their feet when they dance, you can see their aesthetically extended arms and their legs. They respond dizzyingly to the signals that their brain sends, they dance now with live music, with precise percussions, linearly illuminated, amazingly dressed, they are like the cell that explodes, and you can’t stop it.
Each letter of its name is pronounced with pride and every time the name of the company is heard, the eyes of the imagination dilate to transfer creativity to the hundreds or thousands of memories built or destroyed over the years.
They have given Mazatlán another charm, another motif, another detail, another art, another expression, all of them are one and there is one in many parts of the earth, they call themselves simply Delfos Danza Contemporánea.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of such a prestigious company, the Instituto Municipal de Cultura, Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán opened the doors of the Ángela Peralta Theater to Delfos, their home since they arrived in this city and brought Paisajes Insondables to stage, positioned among the great events of the Festival Cultural Mazatlán 2023.
Delfos exhibited two pieces to celebrate its 30 years of dance: Óxido and Minimal/ Live music was performed by Safa Percussion Ensemble made up of David Hernández, Alejandro Inda, Max Carreón and Diego Rojas who gave life to the notes created by Mario Lavista and Ólafur Arnalds.
The choreographies were by Claudia Lavista and Víctor Manuel Ruíz, there were guest musicians such as Ifigenia Lejarza, Juan Pablo Pablo García and Frida Fernández, with them the auditory, visual and sensory senses reacted.
The dancers danced on stage with interrupted impulses, with silent and intense discussions, squeezing and rustling extensive canvases of paper to twist thoughts and reflect on the complexity of the unconscious human actions that have altered our surroundings, ambiances and daily life without trying to stop us, despite the consequences, actions sometimes generated by a single individual.
It was a privilege to see those emotions and those transitions embodied in the bodies of Xitlali Piña, Johnny Millán, Luisa Escobosa and Surasí Lavalle accompanied by Marco Gómez, Alexandra Elanes, Katia Rivera, Vanya Saavedra and Raúl Moreno.
In Óxido and Minimal there are no hidden messages, there are no warnings, they are human practices that seem incorrigible, but in both pieces hope and reconstruction still have opportunities, they point to the solitary helper, and to the power that exists in empathy and resilience.
Delfos left no doubt that love and passion for realizing our life purposes are vital and are related to the faith, trust, support and opportunity that always arise in the least expected moments.
At the end of the show, the General Director of the Instituto Municipal de Cultura, Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán, Raúl Rico González, mentioned that Delfos’ presentation represented a day of gratitude for so many years, so much friendship and so much appreciation.
He added that with the emergence of Delfos on the Mazatlán stage, things change, some are destroyed, but finally they achieve stability, they manage to be what they should be at the beginning, creative, changing, dynamic entities like the arts in Mazatlán thanks in large part to Delphos, to Claudia, to Victor, and to all the people mentioned that night.
“We must congratulate them all for having them, for having bewitched us so that they would not abandon us, for continuing to attend the theater and giving them encouragement and stimulation. Let them have another thirty years, if possible, because you are going to see who comes to the stage, you are going to understand why they have sustained themselves, because they have this motivation to continue creating, Raúl Rico stressed.
The plaque for the 30th anniversary of Delfos was unveiled by those who gave life to Claudia Lavista and Víctor Manuel Ruiz: Lucía Becerra (mother of Víctor Manuel Ruiz Becerra); Rosa Martha Fernández Vargas (mother of Claudia Lavista); Lyn Fisher who has been Delfos’ manager for 20 years; María Luisa Camacho, better known as “La Chata” (Claudia Lavista’s Grandmother), and Mr. Raúl Rico, General Director of the Instituto de Cultura, Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán.
