- In 2005 he became a permanent member of the Society of Immortals.
- In 1971 he became a principal dancer at the Hungarian Opera House, he stayed for one year.
- Graduated from the State Ballet Institute in 1967 and then signed a contract with the Hungarian State Opera.
- In 1996 he founded the Hungarian Ballet Festival.
- Starting in 1985 he was the permanent choreographer of the Bayreuth Festival.
- In 1979 he returned home to Hungary and founded the Gyor Ballet where he was director until 1991.
- In 1972 he became the leading soloist of the Brussels company of French choreographer Maurice Béjart. One of his most famous roles in Béjart's company was in The Firebird.
- International critics ranked him among the world's ten best dancers as early as 1974.
- Until 1992 he was ballet master and choreographer at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, and from 1993 he was a guest choreographer in Vienna, Paris, and Sydney.
- In 1981 he was awarded the Meritorious Artist Prize, in 1983 the Kossuth Prize, and in 1985 the SZOT Prize.
- He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2007. In the same year, he was made an honorary citizen of his home town of Balassagyarmat.
- In 2008 he was awarded the Prima Primissima Prize.
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