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„Ünnepeljük életét!”
Novák Ferenc Tata (1931–2024)
Novák Ferenc "Tata" 1931–2024 August 17. Excerpts from the family’s announcement: "Novák Ferenc Tata passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 94….His exceptionally rich, vehement and productive life was full and intellectually active into his last months: this year in April he gave a lecture on dance history to several hundred people at the National Dance House Festival….Hungarian culture and Hungary itself is indebted to him. He loved his country deeply, but not without criticism - he worried immensely about the fate of his country in recent years…Over his long career he acquainted so many generations here at home and abroad with the European values of our national culture. He founded the now 70 year old Bihari Ensemble and led the Honvéd Dance Theatre for three decades*…His unmatched life-work, experience, knowledge and adventurous life story lives on not only in his works but in his friends, students, family, children and grandchildren. We celebrate his life!" [*Translator’s note: In these circles Novák is as well-known as a choreographer and for his large scale dance, music and theatrical projects, as he is also for his early trips (1960s) to the Transylvanian village of Szék where he did ethnographic and folk dance collection work that became the inspiration for the dance house movement. S.F.]