Barak Marshall

Barak Marshall grew up in the United States in a family of artists, the son of the legendary American-Israeli dancer and choreographer Margalit Oved. Today he divides his time between Los Angeles, where he teaches at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, and Tel Aviv. His artistic breakthrough came after he moved to Israel, where he became house choreographer of the famous Batsheva Dance Company and artistic director of the country’s oldest contemporary dance company, Inbal Dance Theatre. Marshall has a particularly close relationship with the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre in Tel Aviv, which is considered the most important institution for modern dance in Israel. His very first piece, Aunt Leah, won first prize in the Suzanne Dellal Centre's Choreography Competition in 1995, and from 2008 the dance centre stepped up the collaboration with commissions for the full-length productions Monger, Rooster (in co-operation with the Israeli Opera) and Wonderland. Barak Marshall has also created works for Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Rambert Dance Company, Cisne Negro, Bodytraffic, Ballet Junior de Genève and soon for Ballett Oldenburg.

In addition to choreography, Marshall has a second very successful career as a singer, with a particular fondness for classical and Middle Eastern music. He has performed with Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Project, among others.