Articles by Initial Letters
Bíró József táncművész emlékére
- Issue: 2018/5
- Starting page: 36
- Author: Zsirai László
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New publication: Ladányi András: “Jaffás” – [in memory of Bíró József]. Nyíregyháza, Hungary. 2018. Bíró József 1957–2017 “Dance is my life”. This portrait of the dancer known as Jaffás comes together through interviews with his fellow dancers, teachers, students, friends. He started dancing at the age of 14 in Nyíregyháza, Hungary in the Szabolcs-Volán Dance Ensemble. By 1973 he was a leading dancer in the group. From 1975 in Budapest he was soloist in the Vasas Dance Ensemble, then the Népszínház Dance Ensemble. In 1981 he earned the "A category” license as a performing artist. From 1988 he danced with the Honvéd Ensemble. In 2004 he got his diploma for teaching drama and dance and became artistic director of the Szabolcs Folk Dance Ensemble, the post he still held when he died in 2017. “Jaffás was an integrating, cooperating personality. He brought people together. He was surrounded by respect and affection.” “For him dance came before everything else”. Book review by Zsirai László.