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!

December: Time to Relax!

The end of the year can feel stressful, so our focus for this month's challenge is to relax and unwind through yoga and conditioning. We've arranged a December program for you, designed to develop your mobility, stability, and generally giving your body the treat of relaxation through movement. Please make any modifications you need.


Complete all the videos in this program by December 31st, 2024 to get your free patch: https://askdatura.typeform.com/to/aVT3q6rq

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!

Submit my 366 Calendar

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...coming soon...

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.

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!

September: Performance Ready

In September, we learned a choreography editing process from Rachel!

October: Datura Transformation Challenge

In October, we used make up and costuming to tell a story!

November: Best Bodywaves

In November we worked on our Bodywaves and Undulations!