ResDance Series 8: Episode 3: Exploring Dance as a Tool for Awareness and Wellbeing with Alice Marshall

In the episode, Alice shares insight into her experiences both as a professional dancer and choreographer and the work of her company - Adaire to Dance. Through exploring her choreographic identity, she offers insight into performative work and her drive for encouraging accessibility of the arts, presenting opportunities for all in dance. Alice reflects upon the role dance has as a tool for raising awareness ofexperiences and conversations that feel difficult to have, sharing her personal journey with baby loss and the role dance has played in her recovery. Throughout the episode, Alice highlights the need for open dialogue and conversation within dance and reminds listeners as to the wider value of dance.

Please note this episode contains dialogue around baby loss

Alice Marshall is a leading Dance professional in the Midlands area. After an extensive performance career with choreographers such as Paul Bloom, Katie Green and Cathy Seago, Alice went on to form Adaire to Dance – a professional performance company that demonstrates the diversity of Contemporary Dance. Her work with her own company concentrates on accessible dance and combining other art forms with the movement created. Often a collaboration with Illuminos is at the centre of her work. As Choreographer and performer within this company Alice also taught Dance toall ages in the community.

As a lecturer she has a keen interest in the development and upholding of the work of Dance Artists, and therefore strives to present them all with opportunities that her connectionsin the industry can provide. Alice's dance academic research has been recognised, and she has presented papers across the sector including ELIA and Advance HE. Her work has been published in the form of a book Entertainment in the Performing Arts by Routledge and is the start of her exploration into a new way of accessible writing for academia. Alice was awarded Derbyshire's Inspirational Woman of the Year Award in the Arts (IWA) in 2015,and was one of three shortlisted for One Dance UK’s Lecturer of the Year 2018.

https://alicevale.weebly.com/about.html  

Contact details:

Email: a.e.a.marshall@derby.ac.uk 

Instagram @aeamarshall

Linkedin: Alice Marshall (Vale) - SeniorLecturer - University of Derby | LinkedIn
Other social media platforms:

@adairetodance

@creativeparent

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