Stage & Donations FAQ

How do I add weekly challenges myself?

It's very easy :) Go to the stage section from the home screen and then click on the yellow + button at the bottom right. The rest is just adding a title, image and description. More on that in the next FAQ.

I've added a weekly challenge - why am I not seeing it on the app yet?

This is due to two things:
1. Your weekly challenge first needs to get reviewed by our internal moderators to make sure that it's set-up right and goes along with our community guidelines. You can follow that process by checking its status via the filter and "show my content only". There you'll see your pending, approved and flagged daily challenges.
2. Depending on how many people are adding weekly challenges, our internal logic picks a random daily challenge out of that pool of new weekly challenges available. If it takes a bit longer for your weekly challenge to show, it's due to a great participation of our mers, adding many weekly challenges.

How do I show that I've completed a weekly challenge?

You need to click on "Do & Show" of the weekly challenge you want to participate in. Then, upload a picture that shows you doing the challenge or the result of having completed it or really any other picture that is related with the challenge. You can also optionally add a description that will be visible along with your picture.
Only other dancers that have also participated in the challenge will be able to see your challenge picture as well.

I've done a weekly challenge, but when I wanted to add my proof, it was already gone. Where do I find it again?

A weekly challenge will show for 7 days straight. There is a countdown timer below the button "Do & Show" that indicates how long it will still be the challenge of the week. The timer starts in UTC time zone, so it might be that when you're looking at it, it only has few more hours to go. However, worry not :). You can still participate in the w weekly challenge even after it is no longer the current challenge of the week.
Simply click on the upwards pointing arrow at the left top corner. This will bring you to an overview page where you see the current weekly challenge and all the older challenges that have already been active weekly challenges.

If there is something you have a question about that you don't find answered in the FAQ section, please write to support@danceunites.us

I don't like the weekly challenge that's currently on - are there others to do?

Totally! As we're so many on the app, there are for sure going to be weeks where you'd like to do a different challenge than the one that is being suggested during that particular week. So, just like mentioned in the question above, simply click on the upwards pointing arrow at the left top corner. This will bring you to an overview page where you see the current weekly challenge and all the older challenges that have already been active daily challenges. Click into any of those other daily challenges that sound interesting to you and challenge away :).

How should the weekly challenges that I add look like?

Daily Challenges are there for two main reasons:
1. To inspire everyone to let dance and rhythm help in intercultural and interhuman connection.
2. To bring the dancing magic int our everyday.
So based on this, please add weekly challenges that go along with that spirit.

Also, another thing, it would be great to add this paragraph at the bottom of your daily challenge to help Dance Unites Us get visiblity on Instagram and to help guide people on what they should be doing concretely:
"Take a photo of you doing the challenge, post it by clicking on ""Do & Show"" on the app and ideally also sharing it on Instagram with #DanceUnitesUs and tagging @danceunitesus.
If you have other cool ideas for challenges like this, add them and earn shells along the way on the app!"

I know of a great intercultural/healthy-freetime-activity project that has dancing/rhyhtm at its core - can Dance Unites Us help support it?

That's awesome! Yes - at the end of every month, Dance Unites Us chooses a project that uses something dance-/rhythm-related to help promote intercultural connection and getting people to interact with healthy free-time activities to which to give 4% of its profit. If there are many to choose from, we will do a poll on our Discord server so that the community can help decide. So feel free to either send an email straight to contact@danceunites.us or go into our Discord chat (via the Chat bubble on the home screen), go into the #stage-projects channel and leave your suggestion there.

I keep seeing the same weekly challenges on the app - is there an error?

It can be that during some stretches we don't have new weekly challenges as not enough people are adding new things to the list. This is a community lead platform - so if nobody adds content, it's up to the creators of Dance Unites Us to add new ideas and that might take some while as there is always toooooons of other things to do ;-).
So in these cases, the app will simply circle through all the old weekly challenges that there are until there is new things to show instead. So if you see this happening - how about adding your own daily challenges and give us something new to do! :)