Festivals
in Zakopane

In 1968, the local village folklore ensemble Krivany - Torysa was founded. Its founder is Ján Lazorík.

The folklore group consisted of residents of Kriva and members of the neighboring village of Torysa. The group began rehearsing the Krivjanske vešeľa scene, which was completely spontaneous. The wedding group performed for the first time in December 1969 in the corridor of the local school in Krivany. The group performed for the first time outside Kriva with their wedding in January 1970 in the Black Eagle in Prešov on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Slovak Women's Union Živena.

In 1973, they performed at the festival in Levoča with the play Kersceň na paropce. Martin Ťapák, who happened to be in Levoča, decided to make a film of this scene and made it in 1975, calling it From a Boy a Soldier, for which he won the second world award in Dublin.

In the East, in 1972 and 1986, the dance couple from Kryvia won the national dance competition for couples, and in 1992 the solo dance competition.

The dances that are danced and performed come from villages in the Upper Torysa Basin (from Sabinov to Brezovice nad Torysou). However, the most original ones come from the villages of Torysa and Krivany. These were solo male dances: Olaf, biten (terkač), baśistofska, stupana. The Kryvia-Tory group danced 29 local dances. When in 1992 Dr. Stanislav Douzek CSc. from the Institute of Music of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava announced the recording of the Kryvian dances on audio cassettes, Lazorík prepared them and practiced 92 dances with singers. Finally, Mr. Dúžek from Kryvian recorded and published 18 dances (the cassettes were called Slovak Folk Solo and Pair Dances). Some dances had specific names, and some danced and commanded only the initial words of the song. Some notes were not sung, only danced.

In addition to the filming by the Academy of Sciences, 7 films were made with members of the folk group Kryvian-Tory: Kryvian Joy (1972), Intersections (1973), On the Meadow (1974), Three Monuments (1977), Ofchi Walls (1977), Little Soldier Boy (1975), Hey, My Sheep, Sheep (1976). Various directors finished their folk films, bands, very often with the Kryvia band.

During 47 years of activity, the folk band performed in addition to the surrounding villages at all famous festivals in Eastern, Detva, Strážnice, Svidník, Rakovec, Michalovce, Levoča, Červený Kláštor, Spišský Podhradie, Kamienka, Trebišov, Raslavice, Bratislava, Košice, Nitra, etc. The band contributed to the creation of a so-called unique music in the world - Viliam Gruska's fresco Silent Beauty in the East.

Currently, it has about 30 members representing 3 generations - from primary school children to pensioners. Every year it takes part in numerous cultural events, mainly in the region of Eastern Slovakia. In scenes with dance and song, whose sole author is Ján Lazorík, we present customs from the lives of our ancestors

The group will perform in the traditional category I.