Dance Mama

Dance Mama™ is a Community Interest Company advocating and celebrating professional dancing parents, highlighting the issues that they face and providing inspiration, information and support.

Creating a growing community beyond dance, Dance Mama is a UK-based ‘unique and vital resource,’ pioneering research, information share, content and resources, learning activity, professional development and mentoring online and in person for parents in dance.

Lucy McCrudden is Founder/CEO of Dance Mama™ CIC, advocating and celebrating professional dancing parents, highlighting their issues and providing inspiration, information and support. Lucy’s 22-year career has dove-tailed her own work with key positions in learning and participation with world-class organisations including The Place and The Royal Opera House. She has taught over 19,000 people and has engaged with a wide variety of cultural organisations in consulting, management, choreography and presenting/public speaking roles. An Ambassador for PiPA Campaign and Secretariat – Active Pregnancy Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board, she received an Honourable Mention for the inaugural AWA Woman in Dance Award, won One Dance UK’s Change Maker Award 2022, in the same year she delivered her TEDx talk as she embarked on her PhD at Christ Church Canterbury University. In 2023 she co-Founded the AHRC-funded International Parenting and Dance Network and was shortlisted for This Mum Moves Ambassador of the Year. Lucy is a mum of two.

Dance Mama™ led movement classes as part of the activation programme for 13th edition of Sculpture in the City.

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