For studio owners and recital coordinators

A recital order with no quick changes

For dance studio owners and recital directors: paste your routines and who dances in each. Showorder finds a running order where every dancer has at least 3 routines to change, and names any quick change it could not remove. Print the program and the backstage running order, with dancer names kept in your browser.

Dancer names never leave your browser. No account, no upload.

Sample recital, first 8 numbers

0 quick changes

  1. Opening Number

    Company, Ms Rivera, 4 dancers

    Pinned: the opener

    18:002:40
  2. Junior Ballet

    Junior, Ms Okafor, 3 dancers

    18:033:10
  3. Teen Lyrical

    Teen, Ms Rivera, 2 dancers

    18:063:15
  4. Tiny Tap

    Petite, Ms Okafor, 4 dancers

    18:102:20
  5. Senior Lyrical (Ava Brooks's next number)

    Senior, Ms Rivera, 3 dancers

    18:133:30
  6. Junior Tap

    Junior, Ms Okafor, 3 dancers

    18:172:35
  7. Teen Hip Hop

    Teen, Mr Diaz, 4 dancers

    18:203:00
  8. Petite Ballet

    Petite, Ms Okafor, 4 dancers

    18:242:30

0 quick changes. Ava Brooks dances 1 and 5.

Move a routine with its arrows and watch the flags. The pinned opener stays put. 15 routines in the full sample.

How it works

  1. Paste your routines. One row per routine with its dancers, one row per routine and dancer pair, or a grid with dancers down the side.
  2. Check the names. Dancers are matched by name across routines, and near duplicates such as "Mia Chen" and "Mia C" are offered for merging.
  3. Set the gap. 3 routines between a dancer's numbers is the default. Raise it for a dancer with a hard costume, and add an intermission.
  4. Build the order. The solver keeps pins, spreads each dancer's numbers apart, and lists any quick change left with the dancer, the two routines and the reason.
  5. Adjust and print. Move a routine and the flags update as you go. Print the backstage running order, the quick change report, the program and family sheets.

What you get

An order you still control
The running order is an artistic call. Lock the numbers you care about, move the rest, and the planner flags every change that got too tight, with the dancer named.
Backstage sheets that match
The running order, the quick change report, dressing room calls and costume lists all come from the same order, so nothing drifts when you move a routine.
A program and a sheet per family
The audience program in 1 or 2 columns, with or without dancer names, and a "your numbers" sheet for every dancer with the numbers and times to be ready.

Guides

Free to use

A solved order for a show of up to 15 routines is free with no sign up, and checking an order you made yourself is free at any size, with the printed running order and quick change report. Try it with the sample recital in the planner, then paste your own.

A recital roster is mostly children's names, so Showorder has no server to send them to. The ordering runs on this page and the show is saved in this browser only. This is a planning tool; it makes no other claim about the children in your show.

Plan a running order