Lucy McCrudden

Lucy McCrudden is a portfolio professional whose roles include Founder and CEO of Dance Mama™ CIC, where she advocates for and celebrates professional dancing parents – raising awareness of their challenges 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. 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. In 2024 she co-authored a chapter on parenting in dance with Professor Angela Pickard in The Female Dancer (Farmer and Kindred) and featured in an online campaign for Women’s Health and Barbie, Power of Play. In 2025 Lucy will be supporting RBO’s Cultural Champions project for the Arun district and Candoco Dance Company’s CreativeLab strand of activity developing young choreographers.