Clear the performer, choreography, music, and setting first

Start with the intended performer or fictional character, identity and likeness permissions, choreography ownership, music rights, wardrobe, location, and distribution channel. If a real dancer supplies a reference, document the allowed transformation and whether their face, body, voice, or movement signature may be synthesized. Break protected or commissioned choreography away from generic movement directions so reviewers know what can be reused. Add physical-safety boundaries for lifts, impacts, floor work, crowds, vehicles, and culturally specific gestures. The Seedance 2.5 dance workflow must remain usable as a planning record even if the named product path is absent, restricted, renamed, or unsuitable in the account checked that day.

• Performer and likeness authorization
• Choreography and music rights
• Safety and cultural review
• Destination and disclosure requirements

Map counts to pose, travel, camera, and continuity

Write an eight-count or another declared timing grid with a start pose, weight transfer, gesture, travel direction, level change, accent, and end pose. Note which limbs cross the body, which foot carries weight, when fabric or hair should follow through, and how the next phrase begins. Give the camera a compatible job: hold for readable footwork, arc around a stable center, track a travel path, or cut only at a planned transition. Lock character proportions, costume construction, stage geometry, screen direction, lighting logic, and music landmarks separately from expressive variation. For references, preserve source timecodes and distinguish the choreography requirement from visual inspiration.

Verify the product context, then review motion in sequence

Before any run, record the provider surface, visible model label, date, account, region, accepted inputs, duration limits, audio handling, controls, terms, and output settings actually observed. If Seedance 2.5 is not visibly available, mark the branch blocked rather than inferring access from X. Compare candidates with the beat sheet at normal speed and frame-step critical transfers. Check balance, foot contact, anatomy, identity, spatial path, costume continuity, timing, camera interference, loop seams, music alignment, and safety. Keep failed takes and reviewer notes. Report only what happened in that dated context; do not convert a selected dance clip into a capability, quality, availability, or repeatability claim.