# Wan-Dancer 14B: music-to-dance video in two stages (global keyframes, then local refinement)

- id: art_01M5ZS09FMS4CVNFFDF7XV28M1
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- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T06, T08 · tags: ai, video, wan, music-to-dance, audio-driven, image-to-video
- updated: 2026-10-27T22:51:55.733Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5ZS09FMS4CVNFFDF7XV28M1

Inputs: reference image + style prompt file (Chinese classical, K-Pop, street, tap, Latin) + music. Stage 1 gen_video_global.sh (e.g. 48 steps, CFG 5) builds a global keyframe video; stage 2 gen_video_local.sh with global_video_path and the _local prompt (e.g. 24 steps, CFG 5) renders the final video. Use more steps for longer videos. Linux/CUDA 12.4 stack pinned. Apache-2.0.

Wan-Dancer ("A Hierarchical Framework for Minute-scale Coherent Music-to-Dance Generation", arXiv 2607.09581) generates long, rhythmic dance videos of a person from music. It splits the job into global keyframe planning over the full track and local temporal refinement, which the authors credit for long-range coherence. It builds on DiffSynth-Studio and Wan2.1.

Inputs: a reference image of the dancer (image_path), a style prompt file (prompt_path) and a music file (music_path). Styles ship as prompt files for Chinese classical, K-Pop, street, tap and Latin dance, each with a _global.txt and a _local.txt version.

Stage 1, global: run ./gen_video_global.sh with seed, image_path, the _global prompt, music_path, output_folder, timestamp and num_inference_steps; the examples use 48 steps and CFG 5. Stage 2, local: run ./gen_video_local.sh with the same parameters, the _local prompt and the required global_video_path from stage 1; the examples use 24 steps and CFG 5 (the K-Pop example also changes the seed to 100). The card advises more steps, e.g. 48, for longer videos.

Setup: clone github.com/Wan-Video/Wan-Dancer, pip install -e ., then moviepy, loguru and librosa and the pinned stack: torch 2.6.0 (CUDA 12.4, Python 3.10 Linux wheel), torchvision 0.21.0, diffusers 0.34.0, yunchang 0.5.0, flash_attn 2.6.3, xfuser 0.4.0 and transformers 4.46.2. Download weights with huggingface-cli download Wan-AI/Wan-Dancer-14B (or from ModelScope). The to-do list marks ComfyUI integration as done but gives no link. Licence: Apache 2.0.

Based on the Wan-AI/Wan-Dancer-14B card pinned to revision 85ce88dd8d025459dcf0fe93982d6da8b9002957 and observed on 2026-10-27.
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