BETWEEN DREAMS AND FLOWERS Yesterday I dreamt about a sea of flowers and I discovered that it was my blood. I felt my teeth crack and my body float away This piece is a mortuary fantasy that reveals a space inhabited by two women in transit between life and death. A tenuous light emanates from the interior, lighting their way to take them to the end of the threshold to find themselves with their loved ones. Dying to be reborn. This project is a collaboration between Delfos and the Lola Lince Experimental Dance Company. The staging was done in collaboration with the dancers and choreographers, Claudia LaVista and Lola Lince and directed by Victor Manuel Ruiz.
BETWEEN DREAMS AND FLOWERS Length: 50 minutes Target audience: Teenagers and adults Synopsis Between Dreams and Flores, it is a corporeal-poetic allegory about death and the path of transformation that involves the encounter with emptiness. With an intimate posture, the piece is inspired by texts by Juan Rulfo and imaginary of the Mexican culture around death, to move the viewer with a scenic bet full of symbolisms that reveal the beauty of the end. Two women are on the way to their own death and, from their wanderings together in shared memories, they are discovered as a mirror of transformation, finitude and liberation. The performers of this duet, which tend to blur notions linked to the structure as a form (favoring the display characteristics of the structure and intensity), Lola Lince and Claudia Lavista, stripping develop a device such fine point That their origin and support only conceive conceivable from an extensive care of love to Being, to be. And this work, directed by Victor Manuel Ruiz, deserves the complete attention of those who firmly believe that another dance is possible: here, now. Gustavo Emilio Rosales / DCO Magazine
CREDITS Direction and choreography: Víctor Manuel Ruiz* Dancers: Claudia Lavista** and Lola Lince*** Wardrobe Desing: Johnny Millán Wardrobe Production: Liliana Escobedo Music: Thomas Tallis, Bach, Lucas Vidal, Jhon O Conor and Bizet Lighting Design and Music Edition: Víctor Manuel Ruiz Member of National System of Creators of Arts * 2013-2016 / ** 2015-2018/ *** 2015-2018
BIOGRAPHY DELFOS CONTEMPORARY DANCE Delfos Contemporary Dance Company was founded in 1992 by Mexican choreographers/dancers Claudia Lavista and Victor Manuel Ruiz with the vision of creating dynamic new works in the spirit of collaboration, as well as developing a professional training program for contemporary dancers. The company is a unique collective of artists whose creative vision is characterized by its physical, theatrical and visual scenic language in constant search of new poetic narratives within their diverse repertory. Delfos work has been presented throughout México as well as in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Canada, the United States, Italy, Spain, France, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Lebanon, Algeria, Lithuania, and Greece. The Company has received worldwide critical praise, as well as several major international awards for Dance including: The Mexican National Dance Award in 1992, 1997 and 2002, the Award as Best Dance Company in Mexico by the Critics Union, the Artistic Merit Award in Brazil and the Best Show Audience Award at the XXV Lila López International Dance Festival in 2005 in San Luis Potosi. Delfos had the distinct honor as the only Mexican dance company selected to tour extensively in the United States 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. The tour included a successful week-long run at the Joyce Theater in New York as part of the Mexico Now Festival. In 2005-06, Delfos returned to the United States with the support of Artes Americas. Delfos toured the US again in 2008-10. In 2011 the company was nominate for the Austin Critics Choice Award for Touring show with the piece When the disguises are hung up. In 2014-15 is selected by Southern Exposure/ Performing Arts of Latin American, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, to tour in the US in 2015, which included the Washington University in Seattle, UCLA in Los Angeles and the Bates Dance Festival in Maine. In 2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 13 and 15 Delfos received the Professionals Artistic Groups Scenic Arts MEXICO EN ESCENA Program, from CONACULTA, which is given to the most prestigious artistic companies in Mexico. Since 2008 directs the Dance and Consciousness program, a community project that brings dance to marginal sectors of Mazatlan, in order to re-build the social net through art. Currently we work with 500 children, adolescents and adults. The company has maintained a constant interest in the creation of projects in collaboration with creators of other artistic disciplines, which has allowed us to work with outstanding national and international artists of different disciplines and visions. Since 1998, Delfos Contemporary Dance has run the Mazatlan Professional School of Dance (EPDM); a dance Conservatory that offers a Bachelor of Arts degree program with an interdisciplinary curriculum. Has graduate 15 th generations of dancers and young choreographers, its Academical director is Omar Carrum, and the Artistic Directors are Claudia Lavista and Víctor Manuel Ruiz. Today Delfos and the EPDM are recognized as two of the most important contemporary dance organizations in Latin America. Their home base is the Angela Peralta Theater and the Municipal Center for the Arts in Mazatlan, Mexico.
VICTOR MANUEL RUIZ BIOGRAPHY Dancer, choreographer, teacher and lighting designer, has been praised by national and international awards in each of those activities. He studied at the National Dance School at the Superior Centre for Choreography. Victor danced with the company Danzahoy for seven years, and founded with Claudia Lavista the DELFOS contemporary dance company in México in 1992, which was awarded with National Dance Award that same year. He has produced the lighting design for multiple performances and was awarded in 2002 and 2005 the National Dance Award for Best Lighting Designer. He has received numerous felowships including the National Fund for Culture and the Arts scholarships: Young Creator 1994 and Interpreter 1998, two scholarships from Cultural Projects and Co-investments Development and from the State Fund for Culture and the Arts: Scenic Production in 2003 and Artist with Trajectory in 2004. He has received in 4 occasions the prestigious National System for Art Creators from FONCA. In 2008 he received the fellowship for Scenic Creator with Outstanding Trajectory from FONCA. The clarity and poetry of his choreographic works has impacted diverse audiences in countries like Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Canada, Unites States, Italy, Spain, France, Singapore, South Africa, Chorea and Greece. He has created special works for different companies including the National Dance Company, Dance Company of Yucatan, Contemporary Dance Company of Leon, Red Clay Company and the Winnipeg Contemporary Dancer Company. As a teacher he has conducted master classes in numerous cities throughout Mexico and abroad. Victor Manuel is Co-director, choreographer and dancer of Delfos and an artistic co-director and teacher with the Contemporary Professional Dance School in Mazatlan. Victor Manuel Ruiz, one of the greatest choreographic talents in the country Rosario Manzanos/Proceso Magazine
CLAUDIA LAVISTA BIOGRAPHY Dancer, choreographer and teacher. She started her studies of music and theater at the age of eight. She subsequently studied dance at the National System for Professional Teaching of Dance in Mexico City. In 1987 she joined the dance company U,X. Onodanza and later join Danzahoy Dance Company from Venezuela. In 1992 she founded Delfos Contemporary Dance with Victor Manuel. She has received several awards for her artistic works including the National Dance Award in 1992, Best Female Dancer at the International Dance Festival of San Luis Potosi in 2005, and Best Female Dancer at the National Dance Award in 1998 and the 2002. In 2001 the specialized critics selected her as One of the 10Mexican Best Dancers of the XX Century. The National Endowment for the Arts has also honored her with several fellowships for the Arts. In 2007 she was invited as International Visiting Artist at the 25 th Bates Dance Festival, she came back as a Faculty member and choreographer in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2015. In 2008, 2011 and 2015 she receive the prestigious National System of Arts Creators, one of the most important recognition for artists in Mexico honored by CONACULTA- FONCA. Her video work Between water walls received the Dona et Cinema International Festival award as Best video-creation 2012 in Valencia-Spain. The video-dance Blank Mind co-directed with Omar Carrum was selected in AGITE Y SIRVA Film Festival in 2015. She has been a featured performer in over 80 works of dance, theater, video and opera, working with an international roster of choreographers and artist and performing in some of the world s most prestigious theaters. Claudia has created more than 40 choreographic works and has collaborated with composers, theater and opera directors, photographers, video artists, poets and other choreographers for more than two decades. Her work has been praised by critics and presented in America, Latin America, Asia, Middle East and Europe. In 2011 she received a Mellon Residential Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago. As a teacher she has conducted workshops master classes in numerous cities throughout Mexico and abroad. In 2014 the Smith College and the Boston Conservatory invited her as guess teacher and choreographer. In 1998 she created, along with Victor Manuel Ruiz and Omar Carrum, La Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlán/ EPDM, which has emerged as one of the leading dance conservatories in Mexico and Latin America. Currently she is Co-Artistic Director, dancer and choreographer of Delfos Contemporary Dance and Co-Director and teacher of the Mazatlan Professional School of Contemporary Dance. She runs the Creators Special Program at the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín- CaSa in Oaxaca, specialized in the development of young choreographers and new ways of thinking about dance. If we want to talk of the great figures of Latin American Contemporary Dance, the name of Claudia Lavista is unavoidable Valerio Cesio, Por la Danza Magazine, Madrid-Spain
LOLA LINCE BIOGRAPHY She started her classical ballet studies in Guadalajara, Jalisco in 1978 and in 1985 she became a soloist at the Fine Arts Jalisco Dance Company (Compañía de Bellas Artes de Jalisco). She mastered the established dance techniques only to reaffirm her conviction that the spiritual element in dance is opposed to all sort of mechanic and utilitarian manipulation. In 1990 she embarks on a quest for a new perception of the body excluding all conventional choreographic vocabularies. From then on, Lola has been certain of the fact that themes are not chosen; they grow inside the body and start to demand expression. This is how pieces like Water, Earth, The Cats Will Know, Bonfire Flower, The Half Moon, The Little Box, A Gift from Eva, Women of the World, Lilith's Masks and her most recent project, Studies and Fragments on Dreams, have been born. From 1994 onward she has been a strong presence both in national theatres and international festivals. 2003: Her project A Gift from Eva, a collaboration between her Experimental Dance Company and Stowarzsiciene Teatralne Antrakt is selected to participate at the XXXI Cervantino International Festival (FIC) A Gift from Eva is performed in Guanajuato and Poland. On several occasions she has held interactive collaborations with the University of Guanajuato s Symphonic Orchestra (OSUG): Tribute to Revueltas: Sensemayá and Redes. Avant-garde doors (Puertas de la Vanguardia): L Aprés midi d un faun. She led workshops at the Polski Teatr. Tanca in Poznan, Poland. Premiere of the Mexico-Poland collaborative project Women of the world at the XXXI Cervantino International Festival (FIC). Drawing from other artistic disciplines and artists from different cultures she finds valuable creative tools in a multi-discipline and transcultural perspective. She maintains bridges of collaboration with artists from other countries such as: England: Rachel Gomme Poland: Halina Chmielarz, Jolkha Cynkutis Cuba: Guillermo Horta (based in Vienna) Ecuador: Susana Reyes, Japan: Natsu Nakajima. 2004: Collaboration with Japanese choreographer and dancer Natsu Nakajima for the production of Komachi Stories, premiered at the XXXIII Cervantino International Festival at the Cervantes Theatre, Guanajuato in 2005. 2006: she becomes part of the National Art Creators System (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte). 2008: Premiere of her choreographic piece Lilith's Masks, in collaboration with Natsu Nakajima. 2009: Premiere of Studies and Fragments on Dreams. She is currently engaged in the creative process of her new project, Travel Notes: Choreographic Writing as Living Matter. AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS CHOREOGRAPHY: Bonfire Flower (Flor de la las Fogatas)_Deemed the best of 1998, along with Picnic and Chamacos Swing. Source: La Jornada, Cultural Section, Wednesday 16 December, 1998, and magazine Viceversa, December 1998. Honourable mention for best work at the XIX Contemporary Dance Festival in San Luis Potosí, 1999. Source: «Queso de Tuna Corona de Espinas», Dance Zone Magazine, 1999. Honourable mention for the best work performed by a national company in 1999. Source: Annual Summary, Contracciones y Contracturas section of Dance Zone Magazine, 1999. Considered the best of Mexican Contemporary Dance. Source: Memoria Trienal 1997-2000, Un Nogales Mejor...Gracias, 2000 The Little Box (La Cajita) Mentioned as the best choreographic piece premiered in 2001 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Source: Periódico Mural, December 2001 Special Recognition by Japanese choreographer and dancer Ko Murobushi in 2002. Other Distinctions DIF Waldeen Award for best dancer, XVIII International Contemporary Dance Festival in San Luis Potosí. Grant from the Mexican FONCA (National Fund for Culture and the Arts), Apoyo a Proyectos de Fomento program, year 2000, with the choreographic project The Little Box. Honorary Dance Advisor for Jalisco s State Council for Arts and Culture, year 2000. Judge for the dance discipline for Jalisco s State Council for Arts and Culture, 2001. In 2005 she was a member of the FONCA National Art Creators System s Evaluation Committee. She has the honour to work under the artistic direction of Natsu Nakajima in the Komachi Stories choreography. Member of the Committee for planning the FECA in the State of Guanajuato, Member as a judge of several committees, such as the FONCA Arts Committee. 2006: Member of the National Art Creators System, in the choreography discipline. 2010: Grant from the FONCA s Creators with a Trajectory program for her project Travel Notes: Choreographic Writing as Living Matter.
GALLERY
MULTIMEDIA Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwidzperyrg&feature=youtu.be Gallery / Web Page http://delfosdanza.org/galeria-gallery/
PRESS
DREAMING ABOUT DEATH By: Hector Guardado The choreography makes the experience of death a cold place, an inhospitable and tenuous place, but also an immeasurably beautiful place. Death is a recurring theme in my work. During my entire creative life it has been present in different choreographies. In 2010 I explored the theme to create a piece for the graduation of one of the school s classes. A couple of years later I returned to the piece and worked on it again and now I am revisiting it in order to give it a synthesis of all the elements that shape it. I reduced the number of ballerinas and the atmosphere is clearer regarding its concept. The tone of the piece also has this sense, he shared. The stage is a dream. I dreamed about death in a pleasing manner and I dreamed it like I wished it were. The lighting in this piece, like in many, requires accuracy. It originated from many images. Some were from a dream where I was swimming in a red sea and my hands were bleeding. These ideas were explosive. Past experience can nurture, along with other images that suddenly appear before your eyes or that narrate the rest. The sound that accompanies the images and the movement are a murmuring that unites the concept of cold and uncertainty. A dense atmosphere is created on the stage that subtly slows down the movement. The choreographer instructed the ballerinas to feel the sensation of vapor breath coming out of their mouths ecause of the cold. It is conveyed that they suddenly find a paradise where there is a starry sky. It works with images that give content to the piece and the ballerinas guide it conceptually in order to believe that space in their minds, to feel it in their bodies and to project it with their bodies. Claudia LaVista and Lola Lince are in that space where light barely enters and a cloud shrouds the scene. Their transparent gauze dresses make their bodies seem pale and their faces seem to have no color or life. They don t flinch, they do not gesture, they don t know that they are accompanied by each other. The one who just arrived is frightened and unsure of herself. She slowly explores the space, touches the other one and feels accompanied They share the experience. The movements are slow and subtle. They seem to caress the air. They discover that their teeth and skin break away which causes them to smile. They curiously explore the space and their movements reveal their joy. Sure of themselves, cocooned in a dream and in the plenitude of the moment, they settle among flowers that cover them, creating an image of a reverie, of a slow, tranquil, dreamed death.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Stage: Diameter: Wide 10 mts Fund 12 mts High 9 mts Floor: White linoleum. Wall: Black Fabrics on stage: 2- Black cameras 8- Black legs *must have black wall as fund in the theater Lights: 24 ETC 36 FOR LATERAL 23 ETC 10 to 50 FOR SPECIAL AREAS 18 PAIR 64 FOR AGAINST LIGHTS 12 FRESNELLS of 12 inches 12 CARRIES GOBOS 16 Portamicas for ETC 5 free sticks in the around of the stage (12 LEDs for hanging lamps, provided by the company Lee Filters: -Congo 181 -RED 182 -Pale blue 0163 - Dark blue 119 Sound: 2- Monitors on stage 2- Cd player 1- Console of 12 channels 2-Monitors in Back Personal 1- Electrician 2- Lighting 1- Sound 3- Technical assistant 2- Wardrobe assistant SPECIAL EFECTS: 2- Bags Potting Soil 2- Haze maker with remote control. Or 2 fog machine 2- Fans
Important Note: You must build two wooden crates (Coffin) as a prerequisite for the staging. These are decorated with plastic flowers (provided by the company)
DECORATED SARCOPHAGI
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Assembly time: One day before the show and the day of the performance (14 hrs in total.) Disassembly time: Three hours Assistance: There should be a doctor present during the performance. Two bathrooms with showers and 4 towels. Catering will be appreciate: fruit, water, juice and coffee. Rehearsal: A dance room is requiere for three hours, both the day before and the day of the performance. Number of people traveling: 4 people: 2 Dancers / 1 Co-Director - Lighting Designer / 1 Stage Manager Rooming List: 4 Single rooms The accommodation will be paid by the organizer event Per diems will be covered by producer: $40 USDOLLAR in cash per day per person. Inner transportation will be requiered The cargo shipping will be paid by the organizer event. Performance Fees: $ 2,500 US DOLARS Invoice for payment of Delfos will be given out to: Mitologías en Producción S.C RFC: MPR080829G79 Address: 6 Colonia Loma Linda Puebla CP 82000 Mazatlán Sinaloa
CREDITS DELFOS CONTEMPORARY DANCE Resident Company at Teatro Angela Peralta in Mazatlán Co-Direction Víctor Manuel Ruiz y Claudia Lavista Dancers Karla Núñez, Claudia Lavista, Aura Patrón, Xitlali Piña, Roselí Arias, Surasí Lavalle, Omar Carrum, Agustín Martínez, Johnny Millán, Daniel Marín, Renato González y Víctor Manuel Ruiz Desing and Lighting Víctor Manuel Ruiz Technical Production Rigoberto del Valle Costume Production Johnny Millán Management Ana Elena Morales Administrator Mary Paz Pérez Manager: Lynn Fisher/ Frontera Arts General Coordination Claudia Lavista Imagen, Audio y Video Renato González y Omar Carrum EPDM Academic Director Omar Carrum EPDM Administrative Coordinator Martha Castillo EPDM Artistic Co-director Claudia Lavista y Víctor Manuel Ruiz Physiotherapist Dra. Maria del Carmen Chaparro Fotografía / Photography Ana Elena Morales Mazatlán Sin Martín Gavica Mazatlán Sin Lois Greenfield Nueva York Colin Dunn Mazatlán Sin Contributors: Amigos de Delfos, Instituto de Cultura Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán, Centro Municipal de las Artes, CONACULTA-FONCA e Instituto Sinaloense de Cultura. Counselors: Raúl Rico, Carlos Berdegué, Patty Kronemeyer, Juan José Ruiz, Martín Gavica, Juan Ordaz y Laura Peniche Friends of Delfos: Mark Kronemeyer, Marcela González de Rico, Laura Graef de Ruiz, Juan Carlos Ordaz, Dolores Sacristán de Berdegué, Carolina Gutiérrez de Pruneda, Dra. María del Carmen Chaparro, Gaspar Pruneda, Ana Belén López, Dr. Eduardo Valle, Gabriela Ramírez, Raúl Carreón Álvarez, Andrea Martínez de Castro, Sheila Madsen, Soren Madsen, Richard Marin, Kristi Bishop, Martha Anguiano, Socorro Luna, Roberto Coppel Azcona, Alfredo Gómez Rubio, Rodrigo Becerra, Daniela Rodríguez, Dr. Marco A. Álvarez Arrazola, Dr. Steven Backman, Moisés Himmelfarb, Gilberto Avilés, Cecilia López, Eugenia Hernández, Marianne Biasotti y Diana Lem.
CONTACT Delfos danza contemporánea Directors: Claudia Lavista - Víctor Manuel Ruiz Web Page: www.delfosdanza.org Offices in México Claudia Lavista, Co-directora/Co-director Ana Elena Morales- Gerencia/Management Teatro Ángela Peralta. Carnaval s/n, Colonia Centro, 82000 Mazatlán, Sinaloa. México Phone: (52-669) 981-48-69 / 982 4446 y 47 ext. 108 Email: infodelfos@yahoo.com Lynn Fisher / Manager 3102 Lakeway Blvd., Austin, TX 78734, Tel: (512) 261-6979 lynn@fronteraarts.com www.fronteraarts.com