2024 DO Monthly Challenges

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

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 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.

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.

For our 12th DO Belly Dance Challenge, participants learned one (or more, if you choose) of the following choreographies: Colette’s Octubre Triste Choreography, Heather 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

In November we worked on our Bodywaves and Undulations!