As she sat on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, joining artists and representatives of the many companies that would be part of the historic venue’s 2016 summer season, Tina Finkelman Berkett figured she’d quietly enjoy the camaraderie.
Barak Marshall didn’t want to be a dancer. A lawyer, a singer, a scholar — anything but a dancer. “It was what she did,” Marshall says of his Yemenite mother, Margalit Oved, the one-time prima ballerina of the Inbal dance company, a giant of the dance world. And so he resisted. He sang in a choir; he went to Harvard and studied social theory and philosophy. But like most stories in which a man tries to flee his destiny, the world had other plans.\n
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