{{Short description|American-born Israeli choreographer and singer}} {{BLP sources|date=August 2011}} '''Barak Marshall''' ({{Langx|he|ברק מרשל}}) is an American-born Israeli choreographer<ref name="Ingber2011">{{cite book|last=Ingber|first=Judith Brin|title=Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3-a0L0VACWYC&pg=PA385|accessdate=27 August 2011|date=2011-06-15|publisher=Wayne State University Press|isbn=978-0-8143-3330-3|pages=385–}}</ref> and singer.
==Biography== Barak Marshall was born in 1968 in Los Angeles, as the son of dancer and choreographer Margalit Oved<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://aicf.org/artist/barak-marshall/ |title=Barak Marshall |website=America-Israel Cultural Foundation}}</ref>. In 1994, after studying social theory and philosophy at Harvard University, he immigrated to Israel, where he began a successful career as a choreographer and singer. <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/barak-marshalls-monger/monger/ |title=Monger by Barak Marshall |website=Jacob's Pillow}}</ref>. He is now a second time the artistic director of Inbal Dance Theater<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.maariv.co.il/culture/theater-art/article-1260712 |title=It's like coming back home - 9 years later |website=Maariv |language=Hebrew}}</ref>
==Career== His first piece, Aunt Leah (1995), won first prize at the Shades of Dance (Gvanim Bemachol) Festival. Later on, in Curtain UP (Haramat Masach), he staged The Land of Sad Oranges (1997), Shoshana’s Balcony, Zion, Emma Goldman’s Wedding (1998).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archive.batsheva.co.il/en/people/barak-marshall/ |title=Archive |website=Batsheva Dance Company}}</ref>
He was the house choreographer for the Batsheva Dance Company from 1999 to 2001. As a singer he has performed with numerous ensembles including a guest performance with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project.
==Awards== * Suzanne Dellal's 1995 Shades of Dance Choreography Competition: First prize, for ''Aunt Leah''. The work was also added to the repertoire of the Inbal Dance Theater. * The 1998 Bagnolet International Competition awards: First Prize for ''Emma Goldman’s Wedding''. The piece also won him the Prix d’Auteur Award, the Bonnie Byrd Award for New Choreography and the National ADAMI Award. * The 2009 Creative Capital (New York) for ''Symphony of Tin Cans'', with Margalit Oved and Tamir Muskat of Balkan Beat Box. * The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130602191057/http://www.drc-la.org/pages/horton_awards_past_winners 2010 Lester Horton Award] * First Prize, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130131144150/http://www.joyce.org/about/special_events_awardshow.php Joyce Foundation 2010 A.W.A.R.D. Show]
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==External links== * [http://web.me.com/barakmarshall/MONGER/Barak_Marshall.html About Barak Marshall] * [http://web.me.com/barakmarshall/MONGER/MONGER.html Press praises for Barak Marshall's work] * [http://www.danceinisrael.com/tag/barak-marshall/ Barak Marshall] on ''Dance In Israel'' online magazine. * [http://www.danceinisrael.com/2009/11/interview-with-barak-marshall-dancing-between-israel-and-america-podcast-part-1/ Interview with Barak Marshall: Dancing between Israel and America (Podcast) (Part 1)] * [http://www.danceinisrael.com/2010/02/barak-marshalls-rooster/ Barak Marshall’s “Rooster”] A review of Marshall's piece on ''Dance In Israel''. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120406070814/http://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/dance/barak-marshalls-monger?ref=artist&refcar=%2Fartist%2Fm-n Archive film of Barak Marshall's Monger in 2010 at Jacob's Pillow] * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103071823/http://fora.tv/2010/07/10/Barak_Marshall_Dance_Bridging_Cultures Archival footage of Barak Marshall in ''PillowTalk: 21st Century Renaissance Man'' at Jacob's Pillow]}} *[http://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/dance/bodytraffic Archival footage Barak Marshall's ''of And at midnight the green bride floated through the village square'' in 2013 at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.]
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