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Budapest’s Bihari János Ensemble celebrates 70 years – A founder of the ensemble, the late Novák Ferenc is quoted here ’…Our goal was to create an ensemble and workshop which would be capable of creating works from the vocabulary of folk dances of Hungary and the Carpathian Basin – to bring human and social ideas and/or literary themes to the stage.’ "That was in 1954 and those kinds of goals seemed even then to be a large undertaking…How can I single out particular episodes, choreographies, successes…particular people who have contributed – those still alive and those that have passed on – the 100s of dancers and musicians?…How can I list the works that have touched me?…the details are not necessary: the essence is in the whole…’You always need a group’!” Mihályi Gábor (dance director of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble) wishes the Bihari a happy birthday.