# Tongyi Lab's Wan-Dancer Generates Minute-Scale 720p Dance Video From Music

The Apache-2.0 framework separates global keyframe planning from local refinement to extend past the roughly 20-second coherence limit of prior diffusion video across five dance genres.

- Published: 2026-07-18T05:46:36.130Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-07-18/tongyi-lab-s-wan-dancer-generates-minute-scale-720p-dance-vi
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Alibaba's Tongyi Lab published Wan-Dancer, a hierarchical framework for generating coherent dance video from music at 720p and 30 frames per second over clips longer than a minute, across five dance genres. The paper reports state-of-the-ar…

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