2024 DO Monthly Challenges

2024 DO Monthly Challenges

Each month we have a different focus for you to work on with options to win prizes!

September: Performance Ready

Now that you've created a choreography, it's time to go through the editing process. Here's your challenge:

When you complete your challenge, sign up for your free patch here.

October: Datura Transformation Challenge

This is one of our favorite times of year to see you experiment with costuming and makeup in a transformation video! Coming soon...

November: Best Bodywaves

This month we are focusing on a specific movement: the Bodywave. Coming soon...

December: Time to Relax!

This month is all about relaxation. Coming soon...

The DO 366 Year-long Challenge

We want to reward your dedication to your practice! If you watch a Datura Online video every day in 2024 and record which video(s) you watched each day, we'll reward you with one free year of Datura Online in 2025!

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January: Datura Dreams Program

Piece by piece, we built our dance dreams together and stuck with them! This was a 31-day program with focused modules of fundamental movements.

February: 3/4 Shimmy Strength

We uploaded our 3/4 shimmy video to the Datura Community Monthly Challenges channel each Thursday in February, along with a 3x3. A 3x3 is a list of 3 things you would like to work on for your 3/4 shimmies and 3 things you like about your practice.

March: The DO Belly Dance Challenge

For our 12th DO Belly Dance Challenge, participants learned one (or more, if you choose) of the following choreographies: Colette’s Octubre Triste ChoreographyHeather Louise’s Alf Leyla wa Leyla Choreography,  April Rose’s We Drum to Remember Choreography, and Bevin Victoria’s Fusion Choreography. Participants then filmed their performance of these choreographies and had a chance to win a patch AND either 1 year, 6 months, or 3 months of free DO.

April: Build Your Style

For this challenge, participants watched several combos from our DO teachers and, using them as examples, built and filmed their own combo they created!

May: Advanced Choreography

We upped our game this month by learning a choreography from Rachel Brice to the song "Cabaret Macabre", where we took Datura Style vocabulary and played with some complicated musicality.

June: Fabulous Fundamentals

We looked at fundamental technique this month, focusing on hipwork, undulations, arm movements, and shimmies.

July: Flexibility Focus

Our focus in July was on our flexibility. Flexibility and mobility are important for us as dancers, as it supports functional movement we need in dance.

August: Build a Choreography

This month, Rachel gave us dance composition homework and had us build a choreography in a specific way based on exercises!