September: Performance Ready
Now that you've created a choreography, it's time to go through the editing process. Here's your challenge:
Film yourself doing the edited version of your choreography by October 5th
Upload your video to the Community (or upload on YouTube and share in Community)
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...
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 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.
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!