Upload the rehearsal video
Mp4, mov, or webm. Lives in secure storage; only your team can see it. Signed URLs expire in 60 minutes — links can't leak.
Eight Count anchors every correction to the second of rehearsal it’s about — and tracks each dancer’s progress through their notes, one by one.
Shaped by interviews with college, conservatory and company choreographers.
Private by default — videos never used to train AI.
Arms early on the 5-and.
Spot back wall, not camera.
Plant on 7, breathe on 8.
Front line — your arms are early on the 5-and. Hold until the snap, then release with the line.
The note you give Tuesday gets buried by Wednesday. The dancer who needed it is still scrolling for it on Friday. Feedback dies somewhere between the rehearsal floor and the group chat — not because anyone stopped caring, but because the medium wasn’t built for the work.
How it works
Mp4, mov, or webm. Lives in secure storage; only your team can see it. Signed URLs expire in 60 minutes — links can't leak.
Type a thought or hit record for a voice note. Each note pins to its timestamp and routes to the cast, a group, or a single dancer.
Front line — arms early on &-5. Hold until the snap.
Every dancer's status on every note is its own row. See who's addressed, who's working, and who's stuck.
Built for both sides of the room
One note for the front line tracks each dancer separately. Status, reactions, replies — synced between both views.
◦ Instructor view — Maya R.
Iris — second pirouette landed off-axis. Spot the back wall, not the camera.
Dancer view — Iris ◦
Second pirouette — spot the back wall, not the camera.
Arms early on the &-5. Hold until the snap.
Count the &-a-7. Plant on 7, breathe on 8.
What makes it different
Hit play and the rehearsal video plays alongside the audio — your dancer sees and hears the moment together. Auto-transcribed.
A note for the front line tracks each dancer separately. No more “who saw this?” — you see exactly who's on it.
Full cast, named groups (Front line, Soloists), individuals — or any combination. Dancers only see what they're meant to see.
When a dancer keeps slipping on the same tag — timing, spacing, energy — Eight Count flags it. Triage what's actually slipping.
Creative back-and-forth (“what quality here?”) lives in its own thread. Dancers can author. No status pressure.
A printable per-dancer checklist that turns the week's notes into something you can run through on the floor.
For everyone in the room
Runs the team. Invites members, sets up projects, sees everything.
Runs rehearsals. Creates projects, manages cast groups, leaves notes.
Supports rehearsals. Uploads videos, leaves notes alongside the lead.
Gets clarity. Sees what's assigned, marks each note as they work it.
Built for trust
No public profiles, no cross-team feed, no data sold to anyone. Here’s how that holds up in practice.
Only the people you invite see your rehearsals, notes, and recipient lists. No discoverable public layer.
Videos and voice recordings live in private cloud storage and only stream through 60-minute signed links — they can't be shared by URL.
We don't sell your data. Your videos are never used to train AI models. If we ever train on anonymized notes, we'll tell you first.
More detail on data handling and vendors lives on the privacy page.
Eight Count is in beta. Get your team in early — it’s free while we listen.
For dancers 18 and over.