Alice Marshall (Vale) is a Senior Lecturer and Research Academic at the University of Derby, UK, as well as Artistic Director of Adaire to Dance, an Arts Council England-supported company creating work across the UK. Her interdisciplinary practice blends choreography, original music, and digital media to explore unheard social themes. Alice explores this through accessible dance and the emotional resonance of movement. She has presented internationally on her research and solo-authored Entertainment in the Performing Arts (Routledge). She is dedicated advocate for regional arts, serving on the boards of Arts Derbyshire and Hubbub Theatre and co-directs the East Midlands Dance Artists Network CIC.