In1998
year was wery hard to live normally in Serbia .Group of people who love serbian
traditional music were forced to find a way out from that chaos who was all around them and they found it, it was traditional
dance and music.In that moment ˝Chivija˝ is born.
The
chivija is symbol of Sabac, the town who is known by people who live in there
beacouse they are always glad to hear and have a good laugh and also beacouse they care about serbian tradition and culture.
For nine
years there was more than 500 members who were in this ansamble. At this time ˝Chivija˝ have four diferent sections and more than 150 members. Sections
are : school of folklore (the youngest members) , the first ansable (oldest and
most expirienced members) , school of latino and modern dance and traditional orchestra.
Our
first ansamble and traditional orchestra
were guests of many international festivals of folklore in : Greece , Hungary
, Lithuania , Estonia , Croatia , Slovenia , Austria and Portugal. Some of those
festivals were in CIOFF organisation.
We know
that dance belong's to nobody and she equally spread joy and bliss to all participators and spectators.Because of that and
also the fact that language of dance know's no limit we are dancing with pleasure everywhere we can and especialy on international
festivals because they are perfect chance and place for getting new friendships with all young people like us from all
over the world.
Troughout
the ages Serbia was the place where many cultures from Europe and Asia met , many of those nations left their
trail in culture especialy in music and dance.Because of that Civija's
performances are very colorfull in meaning of that there is many different traditional costumes and music.
President
of the ansamble is Mr. Željko Pajic – Paja.
