Iván Markó Cause Of Death, Wife, Children

Iván Markó was a Kossuth Prize-winning dance artist, choreographer, founder, and long-time director of the Győr Ballet.

Iván Markó was born in Balassagyarmat in 1947. Much is not known about Ivan Marko’s early life.

However, he graduated from the State Ballet Institute in 1967, and then signed a contract with the Hungarian State Opera.

In 1971, Ivan Marko became a principal dancer at the Opera House, but he did not stay long, because a year later he became the leading soloist of the Brussels company of French choreographer Maurice Béjart.

International critics ranked Ivan Marko among the world’s ten best dancers as early as 1974, and one of his most famous roles in Béjart’s company was in The Firebird, where he danced several times in Budapest.

Ivan Marko returned home in 1979 and founded the Győr Ballet, where he was director until 1991.

In 1996, Ivan Marko founded the Hungarian Ballet Festival.

In 1981, Ivan Marko was awarded the Meritorious Artist Prize, in 1983 the Kossuth Prize, and in 1985 the SZOT Prize.

In 2005, Ivan Marko became a permanent member of the Society of Immortals and hw was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2007.

In the same year, Ivan Marko was made an honorary citizen of his home town ofBalassagyarmat.

In 2008 Ivan Marko was awarded the Prima Primissima Prize.

Sadly, Ivan Marko passed away on Thursday, April 21, 2022, at the age of 75.

A cause of death was not given neither is there any information regarding his wife and children.