Someone here will know the name of the group, but there's a troupe in OKC that always has a good workshop instructor every year. A zillion years ago we did a girls weekend up there for Zahra Zuhair!

OOO! Yes, there are scads of workshops right in this neighborhood, not least of which is Dare to Dream. I know Silvia pretty well. You'd love her. Tribal Alchemy is two weeks later, with Mira Betz and Elizabeth Strong, two of the most knowledgable dancers in Romani and North African folkloric out there (among many others of equal quality). 3rd Coast is in January, and there's an elegant sufficiency of fantastic teachers there. I know you know of Ya Halla :-)

One of the teachers at 3rd Coast is Shamsi, and she's out of NO,La, and Baton Rouge. Good friend of mine. She dances with a veil like it was part of her body. Absolutely amazing. The ladies at Urban There's some others that I'm thinking of but I need to get to my puter tonight.

Fahteim will be in St. Louis in October & I would be down for a road trip (It's about 9 hours)