Delfos Contemporary Dance was founded in 1992 by the Mexican choreographers and dancers Victor Manuel Ruiz and Claudia Lavista with the objective of opening a space for creation, exchanges, professional training and communication through contemporary dance.
Delfos is a laboratory of images and emotions in movement arising from the creation of work that comes from introspection. Its purpose is not to approach dance as an illustrative event but rather to arrive at an intimacy with this everyday art and to discover hidden worlds that can spring up inside the same dance.

The aesthetic vision of the members has given the company a unique personality characterized by the fluency, physicality and poetry contained in each one of their works. The company has staged all its work with this trait in mind, whether it is choreography for the general public, projects for children, co-productions with other dance companies or stagings for opera, television and video.

Delfos' work has been praised by critics and presented in Canada, the USA, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Greece, Korea, Colombia, Venezuela, Panamá, México and Bolivia. Selected awards include: The Mexican National Dance Award in 1992, 1997 and 2002, the Award as The Best Dance Company in Mexico by the Critics Union, the Artistic Merit Award in Brazil, and several fellowships from the Mexican National Endowment for the Arts, among others.

Delfos has been selected to tour to U.S. communities 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 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Since 1998, Delfos Contemporary Dance has run the Mazatlan Professional School of Dance. Today Delfos is recognized as one of the most important contemporary dance companies of Latin America. Its home base is the Angela Peralta Theater in Mazatlán, Mexico. Delfos is also a hub site for the Web of Cultural Promoters of Latin America and the Caribbean.
" DELFOS is now moving into the highest levels of contemporary dance in Mexico and Latin America ... "