Dance studio camera system
Secure live class viewing for dance studios
Observation week, every week, without the crowd at the studio door. CareCam is parent viewing for dance studios: secure live streaming of each studio to the families in that class, during that class, from the cameras you already have.
Parents see the progress. Teachers keep the room.
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Scheduled parent viewing that follows your class schedule
A dance studio's week is a timetable: levels, ages, styles, rooms. CareCam uses that timetable as the access list. A family is approved for their dancer's class; that class-time access is what they can watch, and nothing else in the building.
Example: Ava, Ballet II, Monday and Wednesday
Parent
Ava's dad, his own login
Studio
Studio B camera only
Days
Monday and Wednesday
Class window
4:30 to 5:15 PM, Ballet II
Access
Live video only, no audio, no recording
Studio B runs Ballet II, then Hip Hop I, then the senior competition team. Same camera all evening; who can watch it changes with the timetable, automatically.
Observation windows and shared camera apps vs. secure parent viewing
Most studios already let parents watch somehow: a window into the studio, an observation week each term, or, increasingly, the login to the studio's security-camera app. Each solves a different piece of the problem:
| Studio today | CareCam | |
|---|---|---|
| When parents can watch | Observation week, or by peeking through the lobby window | Every class, live, from their phone, during their dancer's class only |
| Who is watching | Whoever is in the lobby, including other families | Only families you approved, each with its own login |
| What they see | Whatever the window or the shared camera app shows, all studios, all week | The studio their dancer is in, in that class window |
| Audio | Whatever the app or a phone on a tripod picks up | Never. Video only, enforced by the service |
| Removing a family | Change the shared password for everyone | One click for one family, nothing changes for anyone else |
| Cameras | The studio's own IP cameras or NVR | The same cameras; a small on-site box streams them, nothing exposed |
Why studios move parents from the doorway to their phone
Young dancers perform for the parent in the window instead of listening to the teacher. Teachers correct differently with an audience. And a lobby built for a dozen people does not hold the 5:15 pickup and the 5:15 drop-off at the same time.
Studios have handled this with observation weeks and one-way glass for decades. Live class viewing on a parent's phone is the same idea, extended: the parent who cannot be at the studio on Wednesday still sees the class, the grandparent across the country sees the recital rehearsal, and none of it involves a shared password or a public link.
It also belongs in the enrollment packet. "Watch your dancer's class live, every class" is a retention line, and it is one that costs the studio the same whether ten families use it or three hundred.
How dance studio live streaming for parents works with CareCam
- 1
One camera per studio
A wide camera high in a corner of each studio, angled at the floor and mirror. If yours are standard IP cameras or on an NVR, they usually stay exactly as they are. Change rooms and hallways are never part of it.
- 2
Plug in the appliance
We ship a small pre-configured box ($349 one-time). Plug it into your network and we connect the cameras remotely the same day. Nothing is opened to the internet.
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Load the timetable, approve families
Create a group per class with its studio, days and window. Parents sign up and request their dancer's classes; you approve from the dashboard, and access follows the timetable from then on.
Pricing is per studio location, not per family. Plans start at $49/month for a small studio, with unlimited family accounts, so offering live class viewing to every enrolled family costs the same as offering it to a few.
Same idea, other youth programs
Class-time parent viewing works anywhere children train in scheduled groups. We also have pages for martial arts and karate schools, and the setup for gymnastics, cheer and swim schools is the same: one camera per floor, one group per class.
Dance studio parent viewing questions
We have three studios and dozens of classes a week. How does that map to CareCam?
A dancer takes four classes a week in two studios. Does that work?
Is there audio? Our music licensing and our teachers both care.
Is anything recorded? We do not want class footage floating around.
Can we keep observation week and the lobby viewing windows?
What about competition team, private lessons or recital rehearsals?
Do we need new cameras?
What does it cost?
How is this different from Spot TV or the streaming built into studio software?
Check your studio's cameras
See if your studio's cameras work with CareCam
Tell us your camera or NVR brand, how many studios you have, and roughly how many classes a week. We'll confirm compatibility and send an exact monthly price. We reply by email, usually within one business day.