What's new

Snap a group into a formation

Select three or more dancers and press Snap to formation. Pick a shape, lines, rows, files, a grid, a diagonal and more, and the dancers move into it, spaced evenly on your grid lines inside the space they already take up. Each dancer takes the spot closest to them, so nobody crosses the stage for no reason, and one undo puts everyone back. Free includes eight shapes. Pro unlocks the full library, lets you star favorites, and saves formations you build to snap again later.

Swap two dancers in one move

Need two dancers to trade places? Open a dancer's menu and choose Swap dancer, or select both dancers on the stage and press Swap. Swap them in every formation, from the current one on, in just this one, or in the ones you tick. Their spots, facings, paths and timing move together, and one undo puts everything back.

See who is in the room, and where their cursor is

When a collaborator opens the same performance, their avatar shows up next to Share and their cursor moves over the stage with their name on it, in their own color, whenever you are both on the same formation. Press the arrow next to the avatars to see everyone here, including dancers watching your view link. The timeline also shows each collaborator's avatar on the formation they are working on, so you know where everyone is even when their cursor is off your stage. Click a collaborator's avatar to follow them from formation to formation, press Escape or the X on the banner to stop.

Dancer actions in one menu

The pencil and trash icons on each dancer now live in one menu. Hover a dancer and press the three dots, or right-click the dancer, to Edit name, Swap dancer or Delete dancer. Deleting a dancer now shows an Undo button too.

Nudge dancers a quarter cell at a time

Arrow keys move selected dancers one grid step, which skips the spots between the marks on your number line. Hold Option on Mac or Alt on Windows with an arrow key and they move a quarter of a cell instead, so you can set a dancer between 2 and 4 from the keyboard, with the same precision every time. Shift still moves five steps.

Two dancers, same first initial, two different pins

When two dancers share a first initial, their pins used to show the same letter. Now each of them gets two letters, so Claire and Chloe read Cl and Ch on the stage, in the 3D view, on the view link and in the print legend. Everyone else keeps the initials they had.

Know when the music didn't load

If a track can't load, the editor and the view link now say so instead of sitting silent, with a Retry button. Dancers can still step through the formations while it's out, and choreographers can replace the track right from the timeline.

Keep a segment note on stage for the whole segment

Segment notes used to fade a few seconds into playback. Flip the new switch in the Segments panel and the note stays on stage until the segment ends, for you and for every dancer on the view link.

Stage settings scroll on your phone

On a phone, the Stage settings panel stopped at the grid section, so the subdivision line fields at the bottom were out of reach. Now the panel scrolls all the way down and every setting is a swipe away.

Small group drags land in a clean line

Nudge a group of dancers less than half a grid step and let go, and the dancer you grabbed snapped back into place while everyone else stayed a few pixels off. The saved spots were right, the picture wasn't. Now the whole group lands where it's saved.

Dancers keep gliding after an interrupted drag

If a drag got cut off, say playback carried the dancer you were holding into a transition, or a collaborator removed them, the dancers in that drag could stop gliding between formations and jump instead until you reloaded. Now they pick right back up.

The selection box steps aside while you drag a group

Drag a group of dancers and the dashed box, its handles and the rotate button used to stay where the group started, sitting on top of other dancers until you let go. Now they step aside while you drag and come back around the group where you drop it.

Play starts where you put the playhead

Click a formation while the waveform is still loading, or drop in a new track mid-piece, and Play used to start the music from 0:00 and snap the playhead back. Now the music picks up right where your playhead sits.

Swapping or removing the music mid-play no longer leaves playback stuck

Drop in a new track or remove the music while it is playing and the editor now pauses where you are instead of leaving the Pause button lit over a playhead that will not move. Press Play once the new waveform is in.

Play is ready again when the song ends

When the music ran out in the editor, the button kept saying Pause, so it took two presses to run the piece again. Now playback stops with the song, the playhead rests on the last count, and one press of Play takes it from the top.

Music plays on iPad again

On some iPads the music went silent in the editor and on the view link, even though the timeline kept moving. Press play and you hear the track again, in Safari and Chrome.

Music stays in sync after you jump around

Jumping to a formation, clicking the waveform or scrubbing could leave the music a beat off from the transitions for the rest of that play, worst on MP3s ripped from video. Playback now runs from the decoded track, so every jump lands on the exact spot and the formations hit with the music, in the editor and on the view link.

Turn the music down while you build

The timeline has a volume slider and a mute button next to zoom. Your level sticks around next time you open the editor, and it only changes the sound on your screen, never your collaborators'.

Segment notes show as a caption while the piece plays

Notes you write on a segment now appear over the stage during playback, in the editor and in every dancer's view link. Turn it off in the Segments panel, or drag the caption wherever it reads best.

Dancer labels your way, plus keyboard shortcuts

Choose how pins are labelled and move dancers without touching the mouse.

• Dancer settings has a new Appearance section: initials, initials with name, number, or no label.
• Arrow keys nudge selected dancers one snap step. Hold Shift for a bigger step.
• [ and ] jump to the previous and next formation.
• Cmd or Ctrl + A selects every dancer on stage. Esc clears the selection.
• A keyboard icon next to Redo opens the full shortcut list.

Cheer floor preset with strip lines

Stage settings has a new Cheer Floor preset sized to a competition spring floor, with a toggle that draws the strip seams on the stage. Shows in the editor and in the dancer view.

Opening a performance now shows it loading

Click a performance on the dashboard and the card says it is opening while the editor loads, and the editor skeleton appears sooner. No more wondering whether the click landed.

Basketball court lines on the stage floor

Coaches staging on a gym floor can turn on court lines in Stage settings. Lines are drawn to scale and centered, in the editor and the dancer view.

Formation settings in the right-click menu

Right-click a formation in the timeline and choose Formation settings to jump straight to that formation's panel.

3D view uses a dancer figure

Dancers in the 3D view are now a figure instead of a box, in the editor and the dancer view. Selection shows as a ring on the floor.

Editor no longer crashes when the browser translates the page

Chrome and Edge auto-translate was breaking the editor for some choreographers. The editor now opts out of page translation so it stays stable.

Dancer pins stay the same size when you zoom

Zooming the stage used to grow the pins with the grid, so clusters stayed overlapped. Pins now keep their size, so zooming in spreads a tight group apart and clicks land on the right dancer.

Menus and the color picker stay on screen

The formation right-click menu and the dancer color picker now flip or shift to stay fully visible near the bottom of the window.

Spaces in formation names stick

Typing a space at the end of a formation name no longer deletes it.

Per-dancer transition timing stays on its formation

Changing one dancer's transition time on a formation could also change it on an earlier formation while the playhead moved. Each edit now lands only on the formation you are editing.