Stancz figures
How many people should be in a dance group?
Dancers, formations, music, stage size and transition times: what several hundred group choreographies planned on Stancz show. Data as of October 22, 2026.
In short
There is no fixed number. In these choreographies, the median is 12 dancers: half have between 7 and 18, a quarter have 7 or fewer, and a quarter have 18 or more.
- 12
- dancers per choreography (median)
- 4
- formations per choreography (median)
- 2.5 s
- of movement between two formations (median)
- 38%
- of choreographies have music
- 89%
- keep the default 10 × 6 m stage
Number of dancers per choreography
This counts the dancers placed on the stage in the editor: the lineup the choreographer planned, not necessarily who dances on performance day.
| Dancers | Share |
|---|---|
| 2 to 3 | 6% |
| 4 to 5 | 9% |
| 6 to 8 | 20% |
| 9 to 12 | 22% |
| 13 to 16 | 15% |
| 17 to 20 | 9% |
| 21 to 30 | 14% |
| 31 or more | 5% |
Some accounts planned several choreographies. If only the most recently edited choreography from each account is kept, the median is 10 dancers, and half have between 6 and 17.
Number of formations per choreography
A formation is one arrangement of the dancers on stage; the choreography moves from one to the next. Median: 4 formations, with half of the choreographies between 3 and 6.
| Formations | Share |
|---|---|
| 2 | 23% |
| 3 | 12% |
| 4 | 18% |
| 5 | 6% |
| 6 | 27% |
| 7 to 10 | 6% |
| 11 or more | 7% |
The free plan caps the number of formations per choreography: 6 for accounts created before the rule changed, 4 for accounts created since. The peaks at 4 and 6 formations are partly due to that cap: these figures describe how Stancz is used, not a rule of choreography.
Transition time between two formations
In Stancz, each formation lasts a set time, and its dancers move into the next formation during the last part of that time. This section measures that movement time for each transition (the last formation of each choreography has no transition).
Median: 2.5 s; half of the transitions last between 1.6 and 3 s. A newly added formation lasts 5 s by default, including 2.5 s of movement: 30% of transitions kept that default unchanged.
| Movement | Share of transitions |
|---|---|
| under 1 s | 9% |
| 1 to 2 s | 25% |
| 2 to 3 s | 40% |
| 3 to 5 s | 15% |
| 5 s or more | 11% |
Each range includes its lower bound and excludes its upper bound.
Music, stage, props
38% of choreographies have an audio track. 89% keep the default 10 × 6 m stage; the others made it larger or smaller.
| Item | Share |
|---|---|
| With music | 38% |
| With props (platform, chair…) | 7% |
| With an LED screen | 8% |
| 10 × 6 m stage (default size) | 89% |
| Larger stage (by area) | 8% |
| Smaller stage (by area) | 2% |
Who planned these choreographies?
They come from several hundred accounts. 83% of these accounts have a single choreography in the sample; the others have several, which together make up 38% of the choreographies. Interface language of the accounts:
| Interface language | Share of accounts |
|---|---|
| English | 36% |
| French | 24% |
| Spanish | 12% |
| German | 9% |
| Brazilian Portuguese | 7% |
| Korean | 7% |
| Indonesian and Japanese | 5% |
Method
Source: the Stancz database, queried read-only on October 22, 2026. The choreographies counted were created between June 2026 and October 22, 2026.
The numbers are computed inside the database (counts, medians, quartiles): no choreography, choreography name or dancer name ever left it.
Median: half of the choreographies are below it, half above. Quartiles: a quarter are below the first, a quarter above the third. Shares are rounded to the nearest whole number.
Left out of the count:
- choreographies in the trash;
- choreographies from Stancz staff accounts and test accounts;
- the demo choreography and its copies;
- choreographies with fewer than two formations;
- choreographies with fewer than two dancers;
- choreographies whose dancers all come from the demo group.
What this page does not measure: a choreography does not record which presets were applied (only the resulting positions), so the page says nothing about presets. Use of the 3D and audience views is not published either: the log that would let us exclude staff accounts only goes back a few days.
Only medians, quartiles and shares are published, along with the order of magnitude of the sample: no counts. No share is based on fewer than 10 choreographies or accounts: small groups are merged (open-ended last range, merged languages), and no maximum is given.
To cite these figures: Stancz, “Stancz figures”, data as of October 22, 2026. https://stancz.com/en/how-many-people-in-a-dance-group
Stancz in short
Stancz is an app for planning group choreographies: you place dancers on a stage drawn to scale, chain formations together and watch the movement animated to the music, in 2D, in 3D or from the audience's point of view. It runs in a web browser on a computer with nothing to install, and as an app on iPhone, iPad and Android, with the same account. The free plan includes 3 choreographies at a time, with up to 4 formations each; Pro costs €3.99/month.