Dance spacing website: make your formations online, nothing to install

Make your formations online, step by step

The steps are the same on any computer; the names in quotes are the buttons you will see.

1. 1

   Open the editor in your browser

   Click “Open the editor”, create your account with an email address, Google or Apple, and you land on your choreographies. Nothing is installed on the computer: your work is saved online with your account.

2. 2

   Create a choreography

   “New choreography” opens a sheet: a name, the stage floor (Wood, Marley, Gym…) and an opening formation, with a shape (line, grid, circle…) and a number of dancers, or an empty stage. Confirm, and the editor opens.

3. 3

   Set the stage to scale

   In the stage settings, enter the width and the depth in metres (10 × 6 m by default) and the grid cell size; “Magnetic grid” snaps the dancers to it. Spacing then reads in real distances: the gap between two dots on screen is the gap on the floor.

4. 4

   Add your dancers

   The dancers of the opening formation are numbered: rename them and give each one a colour and a shape (circle, triangle or square), or add more in the “Dancers” panel. One choreography holds up to 500 dancers.

5. 5

   Apply a formation

   The “Formation” tab holds 19 presets, grouped in the families listed below. Pick one and Stancz shares out the spots so that the total distance your dancers travel is as short as possible; the “Zoom” and “Rotation” sliders adjust its size and angle. You can still drag any dancer by hand.

   • Essentials · Circle, Semicircle, Line, Rows, V, Diamond
   • Columns · 1 column, 2 columns, 3 columns, 4 columns
   • Curves · Arc, Spiral, Diagonal
   • Dynamics · Grid, Star, Triangle, Wedge, Zigzag, Staircase
6. 6

   Chain formations and time them to the music

   On the timeline, “Add a formation” adds an empty one or a copy of the current one, and each formation keeps its own duration. “Add music” imports an audio file from your computer; playback then moves the dancers from one formation to the next in time with the track, and “Movement trails” draw each dancer’s path.

7. 7

   Check it in 2D, 3D and from the audience

   Switch between the 2D plan, the 3D stage and “Audience”: pick a seat in the house and Stancz shows which dancers are hidden behind others from there. The 3D views need a recent browser.

8. 8

   Share it with your dancers

   “Share” sends an invitation by email. A dancer invited as a viewer creates an account, installs nothing and opens the choreography in a browser or in the app; a choreography shared with them does not count toward their own plan. Inviting someone who can edit requires Pro.

9. 9

   Open it on your phone

   Sign in with the same account in the Stancz app for iPhone, iPad or Android, or in the phone’s browser: the same choreographies are there. In rehearsal, Present mode shows the formation full-screen and Follow mode highlights one dancer’s dot.

Free plan: up to 3 choreographies, 4 formations each

The free plan keeps up to 3 choreographies at a time, with up to 4 formations in each, and it opens the whole editor: to-scale stage, presets, music, 2D, 3D and audience views, and view-only sharing. No card is asked, and there is no end date.

Pro, at €3.99/month, removes both limits and lets you invite people who edit your choreographies, sort them into folders and restore the ones you deleted.

If a subscription ends, nothing is deleted: your 3 oldest choreographies stay editable and the others become read-only.

What the browser version does not do

Before you start, here is what Stancz does not do:

• No export: Stancz does not produce PDF or image files. You share the choreography instead, and your dancers watch the transitions play.
• No real-time co-editing: two people do not edit the same choreography at the same moment.
• No dance school management: no enrolment, class schedules or invoices.
• It does not choreograph for you: Stancz places and moves the dancers you choose, and the steps stay yours.

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