June Challenge: Slinky & Snakey
Our challenge for June is working on all our gooiest movements in any style of belly dance: figure 8s, circles, undulations, and more. You get three focused practices a week in June. Choose days or times to dance that work best for your schedule.
The 365 Challenge!
Watch a video every day in 2025 and video your favorite practice move or moves each month and you can win an entire free year of DO! Go to the Datura Community to join in the challenge!
January 2025: Consistent & Strong
Let's start a new dance adventure! We have to gather all our fundamental belly dance technique before we embark on this journey.
Finger Cymbal Fluency: February Challenge
Finger Cymbals are an instrument commonly used in belly dance! This challenge is all about developing your cymbal skills in an approachable way, from learning how to make the cymbal sounds to beginning to dance with them.
Musicality March
The DO Belly Dance Challenge gives you a chance to learn a choreography (or choreographies) and perform (if you want). But even if you don't want to perform, learning a choreography can teach us great lessons! From isolation patterns you might really enjoy adding to your own dance vocabulary to further developing your musicality skills, this month we are working on learning a choreography...
Shimmy Skills: April Challenge
Shimmies are a quintessential element in belly dance and there are so many different kinds of shimmies we can explore! In this month-long challenge, you'll work with 3 videos a week to develop various shimmies, including the 3/4 shimmy, progressive hip shimmies, shoulder shimmies and more. Fill out this form when finished to get a free prize: https://askdatura.typeform.com/to/hR9rFDNx
Musicality May!
Let's build our shimmy skills this month. We'll be working on hip shimmies, shoulder shimmies, and building our endurance with progressive shimmy drills.
2024 Challenge List
January: Datura Dreams
February: 3/4 Shimmy Strength
March: The DO Belly Dance Challenge
April: Build a Combo
May: Advanced choreography
June: Fabulous Fundamentals
July: Flexibility Focus
August: Build a choreography
September: Performance Ready
October: Transformation
November: Best Bodywaves
December: Time to Relax