Dance Software · for dance programs and studios
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Who this is for
Dance Software is for two audiences: the dance studio that runs as a small or mid-size business with its own recital calendar, costume photo days, and program production — and the in-school dance program that operates within a K-12 school and needs to coordinate with the school’s existing roster, consent framework, and print pipeline.
For a dance studio operating independently, the platform provides recital scheduling on the shared scheduling engine, the costume-photo day operation on the picture-day substrate, and the publications pipeline for program production. The studio maintains its own class and company rosters; the platform reads those rosters to build schedules, programs, and galleries without requiring a separate manual entry for each event.
For an in-school dance program, the platform reads from the school’s existing student roster maintained through the K-12 platform. A dancer who is enrolled in the school does not need to be re-entered as a studio student. The consent framework the school has set up for photography and publications covers the dance program’s use of those systems. The same FERPA privacy wall that protects the school’s other student data protects the dance program’s roster data.
This platform is deliberately narrower than instructor.software, which covers directors across all disciplines and is the general activity-and-program layer. Dance Software is the dance-vertical home. If you run a dance program and also manage a theatre production, the theatre-director tools live at instructor.software and freeschoolplays.com; the dance-specific tooling lives here.
What is built, what is in early access, and what is honest-off
Recital scheduling on both the fixed-slot and window-overlap engines, costume-and-photo day on the built picture-day substrate, recital programs as publications with fail-closed print preflight, team and roster management for classes and companies, and the music-licensing posture tied to freeschoolmusic.com are built on the shared platform substrate. The dance-operator command center console is in early access — available to partner studios and programs, not yet open for general use. The branded studio store for parent photo orders is in early access; the studio-leg payout to a bank account is the fast-follow being wired. Ticket sales and a public recital storefront are planned, honest-off: the seam exists; the wire is not connected; no ticket revenue flows today. Parent communication dispatch is built on the routing side; the outbound provider is not yet connected. We say all of this plainly rather than presenting in-progress work as finished.
Dance Software is part of the Stanley Studios K-12 platform: one consented student record underneath, one print pipeline, one scheduling core — purpose-matched to the dance vertical.