Image credit: Anthony Shintai, One Dance UK and Dance Mama
DANCE MAMA MOVES
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WITH
SURREY SPORTS PARK & THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY
Movement classes for postnatal mums
in locations in Guildford
supported by Sport England
As seen on BBC's The One Show supporting Angela Rippon's 'Let's Dance' campaign
WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
MEET ONE OF OUR PARTICIPANTS, CATHERINE
2025/26 Programme
We are delighted to have been awarded a Sport England #MovementFund to continue develop perinatal activity, including Dance Mama Moves with Laura Harvey, strengthen and stretch with Lisa Upton Atma Alchemy in partnership with Surrey Sports Park, Surrey University across the next academic year.
🤰🏽 This enables us to build on the existing provision pioneered by the wonderful Carly Pearson, Active Wellbeing Manager at Surrey Sports Park, working together to enable continued free access to a pre and postnatal fitness programme at locations in Guildford.
- This activity provides expectant and new mums and their families with a pathway to physical activity which will positively impact their mental and physical health.
- With specialist delivery we are creating activity that would otherwise not be accessible to our target group.
- We create wonderful, supportive communities.
“[Dance Mama Moves} has been really helpful for my mental health as well as my bond with Milly.” - participant
TO BOOK ON: Email activewellbeing@surreysportspark.co.uk
VOLUNTEER CALL-OUT
Are you experienced with caring for babies and children?
Do you like being active?
We are looking for volunteers to support families with newborn babies and young children within some of our weekly classes (dance and stretch) taking place in Guildford. Experience with babies and young children is essential, interest in being active is encouraged and training will be given.
TIMETABLE AND SESSION EXPLAINERS
Spring Term 2026 starts the week commencing 5th January
TO BOOK ON: Email activewellbeing@surreysportspark.co.uk
Not sure about dancing pregnant or postnatally?
The Active Pregnancy Foundation has brilliant resources about staying active pre and postnatally. We contributed to this great information resource giving you a good understanding of how you can take part and continue dancing.
Visit our Resources page to see how we work with Active Pregnancy Foundation.
Lucy (left) and Laura (right) have developed this unique programme through their extensive dance careers and lived experience. They deliver the dance classes in the programme. (Click on their names to find out more about them).
🎧 LISTEN below to Laura talk about why she loves delivering our Dance Mama Moves sessions on Before the Applause podacast 👇
ABOUT OUR TEAM
RESEARCH
Our perinatal dance programmes are created combining our lived experience, professional knowledge in world class dance and health programmes, backed by evidenced-based research, primarily advice in Active Pregnancy Foundation and the Institute of Health Visiting's This Mum Moves (which we deliver awareness-raising sessions about), combined with the knoeledge base in Dance Mama's Research Advisory Group as well as Lucy McCrudden's PhD studies at Canterbury Christ Church.
Lucy McCrudden has presented at many international conferences including International Parenting and Dance Network, Canterbury Christ Church University, Texas Tech University (TTU), National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science and Critical Dance Pedagogy Network.
She has also presented specifically about how we use recorded music at as well as Royal College Music's Music and Parental Wellbeing Alliance (image below).
Demi Burchett, Surrey University has also studied Dance Mama Moves Surrey participants for her undergraduate degree, and is part of our Research Advisory Group.
