| LC control no. | n 85183828 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kovach, Nora, 1931-2009 |
| Variant(s) | Kovács, Nóra, 1931-2009 |
| Birth date | 1931-06-13 |
| Death date | 2009-01-18 |
| Place of birth | Budapest (Hungary) |
| Place of death | Miami (Fla.) |
| Profession or occupation | Ballerinas |
| Found in | Omnibus. III, vol. 1 [MP] 1954: credits (Nora Kovach, performer) LC data base, 4-18-88 (hdg.: Kovach, Nora, 1931- ) New York times WWW site, Jan. 26, 2009 (in obituary published Jan. 24: Nora Kovach; d. last Sunday [Jan. 18, 2009], Miami, aged 77; fiery Hungarian ballerina who caused a sensation in 1953 with Istvan Rabovsky, her ballet partner and first husband, when they became the first highly publicized dance defectors to the West from the Soviet bloc) Wikipedia, September 23, 2020 (Nora Kovach; Nora Kovach (13 June 1931 - 18 January 2009) was a Hungarian ballerina who defected in 1953 together with her husband and fellow ballet dancer Istvan Rabovsky; Kovach was raised in Budapest, and was trained as a dancer at the schools of the Budapest Opera Ballet and of the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad; as the leading dancers of the Budapest State Opera, Kovach and Rabovsky were sent on tour in May 1953 to East Berlin; with the Cold War intensifying, they disappeared from a scheduled performance and were able to board a subway train in a station located underneath their hotel and escape to West Berlin; the couple traveled to the United States, arriving in Hoboken, New Jersey on the SS Nieuw Amsterdam on November 13, 1953; they started their own troupe in the early 1960s called Bihari; Kovach opened a ballet school in Plainview, New York in 1969; Kovach divorced Rabovsky and married Tibor Szegezdy, who died in 1985; she was survived by her third husband, Steve Farago; the native form of her name is Kovács Nóra) IMDb, Seprember 23, 2020 (Nora Kovach (1931-2009); Nora Kovach was born on June 13, 1931 in Budapest, Hungary; she was married to Steve Farago, Tibor Szegezdy and Istan Rabovsky; she died on January 18, 2009 in Miami, Florida, USA; Hungarian ballerina who defected to the West from the Soviet block with her partner and then-husband Istvan Rabovsky in 1953; they also were rescued from the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria after it collided with another ship in 1954) |
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