Feeling like she didn’t quite fit in at the august New York City Ballet (“I felt like if I didn’t do something exactly the same way they wanted me to, it made me look bad, or like a rebel”), Melissa Barak fled in 2007 for Los Angeles Ballet. But NYCB ballet master Peter Martins “doesn’t hold a grudge. Last year, he sent her a letter asking her to return, this time as choreographer of a major work for her alma mater.”