Solo work
- Capture
- Sealed LENS record
- Deposit
- Sealed 3D mesh
- Terms
- Bilateral license
Cohort preview · Under NDA · DKA Certified
Movement is becoming licensable.
KINEX is where cleared, license-ready movement IP will be licensed directly, under bilateral agreements, when the marketplace opens in 2027.
NYMM · Choreography by Seiky Stephanie · DKA Certified
The Movement Licensing Marketplace
From the founders
Seiky Stephanie is the architect of KINEX. Blacka Di Danca is its engineer. Together they built the marketplace they spent their careers needing.
Here is the confession: for most of their careers, choreography was treated as atmosphere, the beautiful thing in the room that nobody budgeted for. The steps were the show; the credit traveled one way and the money followed it, and the contract called it work for hire, which meant the leak was legal and the loss was theirs.
If you license movement, you are carrying the other side of that leak: the emote, the campaign, the avatar, the training dataset, cleared by a search and a hope, one dispute away from becoming the story. KINEX ends that. Every asset here is captured and sealed at fixation and audited before it is listed, with the chain of title documented end to end, so the license you sign is the whole story and nothing is hiding underneath it.
And if you make movement, this is your door: your work protected at the moment it is made, and 80 percent of every license flowing to you, not as a favor but as the published terms of the marketplace.
Seiky Stephanie and Blacka Di Danca are founding partners of KINEX and of DANCA Media. The door is open, and this time the movers hold the keys.
One system, eleven doors
KINEX changes what the spend leaves behind: the choreography is captured as a sealed record with its chain of title documented, ready to be licensed when licensing opens in 2027.
Duet work
- Capture
- Sealed LENS record
- Tracking
- Per-dancer readings
- Terms
- Bilateral license
Cohort preview · Under NDA · DKA Certified
Crew work
- Capture
- Sealed LENS record
- Tracking
- Per-dancer readings
- Terms
- Bilateral license
Cohort preview · Under NDA · DKA Certified
DKA Certified is the gold seal, awarded only to work implementing the full DKA Framework.
The Lens is our own technology
The Lens is the capture technology KINEX runs on, and it was designed and built in-house by DANCA Media.
The Lens is owned by DANCA Media LLC.
When a work enters the catalog, the Lens records the performance and seals the record at fixation. That sealed record is what the audit reads, what the Record Room shows, and what a license will be written against when licensing opens in 2027.
The Lens works internally only, and it is not offered as a product or a license to anyone.
Its one public window is the Mirror, a live demonstration of the Lens that anyone can watch run.
What a listing carries
✓One listing · One recordSealed by LENS
- Record
- A piece of movement, with its record attached
- Fixation
- Sealed at fixation · hash anchored in the registry
- Provenance
- Capture to license, carried in the record
- Chain of title
- Cleared before listing
- Rights
- The named rights · bilateral license
- Verification
- Checkable in the Record Room
WHAT KINEX READS
One performance, captured by the Lens and sealed as one record, is read for the movement itself:
TimingMEASURED
Timing, measured to the frame, and spoken in counts of 8 wherever the work carries a declared tempo.
Joint rangesMEASURED
Joint ranges, measured joint by joint and side by side, each range read against the dancer's own baseline in the record and each side read against the other, never against a population grade.
The foot's contact sequenceDERIVED
The foot's contact sequence, derived from the steps the record shows: heel, whole foot, heel lift, toes, with any stage that did not happen named as the missing stage.
Waist decouplingDERIVED
Waist decoupling, derived phrase by phrase: whether the pelvis and the ribcage traveled as separate units or as one block, and a twist that held named as twist held.
The girdleMEASURED · DERIVED · MODELED
The girdle, read on each side: the shoulder line's travel, drops, and one-sided holds, with the heights measured, the tilt derived, and the frontal and depth split stamped modeled.
The plyometric landing chainDERIVED
The plyometric landing chain, derived landing by landing: the order the ankle, knee, and hip fold and how deep, the order they begin to move at push-off and at touchdown, ties printed as ties, and every landing read against the mover's own other landings in the same record.
BreathFORTHCOMING
Breath is forthcoming: the row is named and designed, and it carries no read until the validation behind it passes.
Open nowINTAKE ONLY
Admission for creators is open now, as intake only, and licensing opens in 2027.
Apply for admissionEvery record is sealed and digest-bound, and every record carries a citable identity in public: a KXR number and a Zenodo DOI.
Every read carries its standing in the open, measured, derived, modeled, or forthcoming, and a standing is never upgraded in copy.
Consent is two decisions, taken separately: attribution, and the training corpus, which stays inert until its own instruments exist.
Seen from above: five dancers, one stage, the shape opening.
The staging is in the record
It is carried with the movement, and sealed with it.
A license against the record covers the choreography as staged, in full.
Same steps, different staging: a different picture, and the picture is what an audience recognizes.
- Positions
- Every dancer, every frame
- Formation changes
- Marked in the record
- Spread
- How wide the shape opens
Two seals. One standard of proof.
Every asset on KINEX passes the same Lens audit: copyright standards, chain of title, and capture quality. Then it earns its seal. DKA Certified is the gold seal, awarded only to work implementing the full DKA Framework. Certified assets carry premium pricing, featured placement, and first rank in every catalog view. KINEX Verified is awarded to non-DKA work that clears the full audit: cleared, licensable, and priced accordingly. Work that cannot clear the audit is not listed. The seals are visually distinct and never blurred; certified always comes first.
The Record Room
Enter the Record Room
Step inside a sealed record, and check it yourself.
Open one record three ways: wipe between the performance and its sealed mesh, step through its formation, and see its speed as light.
ApplicationsOpen
ReviewIn order received
AdmissionNot guaranteed
Marketplace opens2027
Applications close when the founding cohort is seated.
Protection sessions are open now.
This door is for choreographers.
The founding cohort is closed, but protection is not waiting for 2027. Request a KINEX Protection Session: your work is captured in LENS, sealed at fixation and anchored in the registry, and you leave with a registration packet ready to file.
The founding cohort is Blacka Di Danca & Seiky Stephanie, the only DKA certified choreographers.
Solo Protection SessionOne work, LENS capture, sealed record, registration packet, filing assist.
Crew Protection SessionOne work, up to three dancers with per-dancer tracked readings, sealed record, registration packet, filing assist.
Registration AssistChain-of-title packet, C2PA manifesting, and Form PA filing assist for work captured elsewhere. Fully remote; no travel required.
A registration packet is documentation prepared for filing. It is not a government registration, and KINEX issues no certificate.
Founding cohort applications from institutions are open at the gate →
KINEX / PROTECTION SESSIONSREQUESTS OPEN
Request received.
Your request is with the team. We reply by email to confirm your session and quote its price. Nothing is charged now.
REFERENCE
Watch the inbox for the address you gave. If nothing arrives, write to info@stitchverse.net with your reference.
Before you apply
How does choreography enter the catalog?
Two ways. Work made under the Lens is captured and sealed at fixation. Finished work by choreographers outside the founding cohort enters through the seven-stage admission audit of the DKA Framework:
identity verificationprovisional fixationcopyright eligibilitychain of titlecapture qualitycompositional scoringthe full seal
Admission for choreographers is open now, because the catalog is being built now. Licensing opens in 2027.
What is the difference between the two seals?
DKA Certified is the gold seal for work implementing the full DKA Framework: premium pricing, featured placement, first rank. KINEX Verified is for non-DKA work that clears the full Lens audit: cleared, licensable, priced accordingly. Every asset passes the same audit; the seals are never blurred.
KINEX / FOUNDING COHORTAPPLICATIONS OPEN
Application received.
Your application is in the review queue, in the order received.
REFERENCE
Admission is not guaranteed. If the founding cohort seats before your review, your application stays on file for the public opening in 2027.
While your application is reviewed, step inside a sealed record.
Enter the Record RoomApplications close when the founding cohort is seated. Every application is read by a person, in the order it arrives, and recorded as it is submitted. Applying does not guarantee admission or any license. Application details are used to review pre-access and to send updates about the opening and the catalog. They are not sold or shared.
How it works
PRIORITY REVIEW
Founding cohort applications are reviewed ahead of the public waitlist, in the order they arrive.
CATALOG PREVIEWS
Admitted members preview catalog drops of cleared, license-ready movement IP under NDA, ahead of the 2027 opening.
BILATERAL AGREEMENTS
Every license at opening is a direct agreement between licensor and licensee. KINEX is the marketplace, never a counterparty trading rights.
The gate is for
Brands & agencies · Entertainment & media · Sports organizations · Game studios · AI labs · Fitness & wellness · Live events & venues · Education & research · Cultural institutions · Enterprise & workplace · Government & civic
The legal basis
Since January 1, 1978, choreographic works have been a named category of authorship under United States federal copyright law (Copyright Act of 1976; 17 U.S.C. § 102(a)(4)). Protection covers a composition of movements organized into a coherent whole. It does not cover individual steps, social dances, or commonplace movements. A work must be fixed in a tangible medium to be protected, and video recording is an accepted form of fixation (U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 52). KINEX works are captured and sealed at fixation.
For Choreographers
The Choreographer Door
Choreographers enter through their own door.
Choreographer admission is open now at their own door, through the seven-stage audit of the DKA Framework, and the catalog is being built now. Licensing opens in 2027, and the founding cohort is closed.